There was a link on my homepage today that said something like, "Larry King Has Interviewed The Royal And Reviled." Unaware of any book Larry King has coming out, I figured he must have died and that, ironically, news of his passing must have been bumped for the bigger story of the week. So I clicked the link and it turned out there's going to be a tv special honoring his 50 years in journalism. There was one quote in the article that really got my attention. It was from "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace who said about King, "He also works so damned hard. There's a reason he has been around so long, and it's that he does the ...
Despite my background in tv news, I only watch it about four times a year because it's all such garbage. Yesterday was one of those days in which I had to rediscover what channel each news station is on and it took me about 45 minutes of listening to ridiculous reporting before I glanced at the tv and realized I'd landed on Fox. I was about to change the channel when it occurred to me that the ridiculousness of their coverage was providing a nice distraction from the horror of yesterday's tragedy so I kept it where it was. I call it "yesterday's tragedy" because I haven't yet decided whether to commit to Fox's "Campus Massacre," MSNBC's "Massacre at Virginia ...
