media
June 26, 2009
- BBC season lifts poetry sales25.06.09 Philip Stone and Katie AllenPoetry sales have rocketed since the BBC's Poetry Season began last month across TV, radio and online. After a relatively weak start—poetry sales to 16th April were down 0.3% on last year—sales, particularly of books by poets under the BBC's focus, have been buoyant.According to Nielsen BookScan, sales of John ...
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June 25, 2009
- I have to make a confession: I was never a Charlie’s Angels fan. Sure I watched it, but I wasn’t obsessive like some people. I never had the dolls, never had notebooks with them on the cover, never obsessed over them, nothing. Yet anyone who grew up in the seventies and eighties knew about Farrah Fawcett. Farrah was everywhere. She was jogging on the cover ...
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June 21, 2009
- I am in discussions with Kevin Barrett of KTRB AM 860 (San Francisco), the home of the Oakland A's, to do a Saturday morning sports show with my partner Mike McDowd. KTRB has recently gone all-sports. Watch for it.
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June 19, 2009
- I am a proponent of all types of media. In my life, I've subscribed to all sorts of media: newspapers, book-of-the-month clubs, magazines, Netflix, journals. I've bought probably as many books as all of you reading this have, most of us able to fill our own libraries to the brim a few times over. I'm also a books-on-CD person and listen when I can't read.But recently, I felt that I wasn't ...
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June 10, 2009
- When Barack Obama decided that questions from the German press about his trip agenda in that country were too pesky, he told the reporters, "So, stop it all of you!" He just wanted them to ask things he wanted to talk about. Well, what politico wouldn't want that?OK, dad. We'll behave.And according to a new Pew Research Center poll, we are behaving...like fans. On domestic press, it ...
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June 10, 2009
- When I was much younger, my father rejoiced on the day that Richard Nixon won the 1968 election. I in an attempt to bond with my father agreed that the church bells ringing that day heralded a new beginning for our country. Many issues arose in the next four years one of them was desegregation. The use of bussing children from one school district to another had been proposed to ...
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June 3, 2009
- Wow, I really was going to stay off the federal government today, including the 4th branch - the media, but how can I? Two tragic murders recently took place in the United States (look - I know - all murders are tragic and more than 2 have occurred, but I'm focusing on two):In Kansas, abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered by somebody said to have political and religious (Christian) ...
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May 23, 2009
- In both Dodgers Past & Present and A Tale of Three Cities, Steve Travers provides photos and stories I never knew before. - Fred Wallen, John Woolard, Sports Overnight
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April 16, 2009
- I have thought long and hard about populist uprisings, how people are lead into a battle by those charismatic few who can crystallize a movement. Think about the power of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, about the Chicago Seven and the Vietnam anti-war movement, Betty Freidan, Gloria Steinem, Bella Abjug of the Equal Rights Amendment. These movements were not bankrolled ...
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April 15, 2009
- One aspect of daily living that had to be adjusted to when I was living in Jordan was the difference in media standards. The levels of quality and professionalism, the relative lack of press freedoms due to state control of the media, and the editorial judgments about the suitability of certain topics and images--all were new to me.Eventually I learned how to read between the lines, to identify ...
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