In these evil times -- especially if you spend much of the day behind a keyboard -- it’s easy to start thinking you’re alone out in the tall grass. That’s why the chance to spend a couple of groovy hours in good company with fellow travelers is a jewel beyond price. Many thanks to Hal (and Andrea) for inviting me to hang out with him, Johnny Million, and Phil Ittner while my wife was off communing with her knitting cult in Chicago.
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
-- Nikola Tesla, inventor
...As for “Meet the Press,” Ms. Turness said she worked with Mr. Gregory to try to make changes, but “we weren’t able to build a new vision together in the end.”Her new vision for “Meet the Press” includes adding a regular panel of journalists who will question guests, something of a return to the venerable show’s original format. “The show needs more edge,” she said. “It needs to be consequential. I think the show had become a talking shop that raked over the cold embers of what had gone on the previous week. The one-on-one conversation belongs to a decade ago. We need more of a coffeehouse conversation.”...
