tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post2259366200183463674..comments2024-03-28T00:02:35.850-05:00Comments on driftglass: What If They Had A Going Away Party And Nobody Came?driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-9694998377453815542015-02-14T12:29:55.913-06:002015-02-14T12:29:55.913-06:00Thank You DG, you nailed my thoughts exactly, who ...Thank You DG, you nailed my thoughts exactly, who gives a damn about Brian Williams? Barring a Hooker & Blow problem, he's made enough money at NBC to fund the lives of his next 4 generations of descendants (He was making 10 million/year). He can walk out of there and has the resources to do anything he wants. In fact it's really a scandal if he goes back to NBC news. <br /><br />Lester Holt/Bob Costas/ the carcass of Tom Brokaw/ the ghost of John Chancellor will do a fine job replacing him. The NBC nightly News with Joe Scarborough? Hey NBC, Olbermann's available, I bet!DonPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13561984994256010877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-60721688830897445922015-02-13T03:02:58.390-06:002015-02-13T03:02:58.390-06:00Thirty five years ago, while Neil Postman wrote bo...Thirty five years ago, while Neil Postman wrote books warning of the growing subservience of the news to the entertainment side of the tee vee business, Hayes and Abernathy were up in the Harvard Business Review with articles like "Managing our way to Economic Decline" - articles that were dismissed contemptuously at the time, but today are treated as sacred revelations.<br /><br />So Brian Williams fucked up, to be replaced by some functional equivalent and six months no one will remember the difference. In the mean time an entire cohort of young people is facing ruin because nobody ever got that first job and now they are old while at the other end of the demographic snake an entire cohort of not quite old people is facing ruin because they get chucked out at the first sign of trouble and no one will ever hire them again. Fifteen years without a job before Medicare and SS is one hell of a morale killer.<br /><br />In my circle, wizened academics gather to speak in hushed tones of the destruction of the independent professions and the hollowing out of our once vaunted research establishments. Simpletons gape at the spectacle of San Francisco and "tech" but toys for children is no sound basis for a continent wide economy.<br /><br />Back at MIT in the 80s people were saying that Microsoft and its heavy handed anticompetitive business practices were going to retard the progress of personal computing by two decades. After the fact, that sounds out right.Mike Lumishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14083545582415707582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-15206062541893290172015-02-12T21:01:51.065-06:002015-02-12T21:01:51.065-06:00Interesting that Stewart is leaving so soon after ...Interesting that Stewart is leaving so soon after Colbert. I wonder if Stephan inspired Jon?PsychoPoethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18329426953167890345noreply@blogger.com