I am looking for network news I can watch — without screaming. I’ve given up on my old employer NBC. Way too ‘local’ and foolish. There’s the Lehrer Report, I know, but I don’t get a good PBS signal in Mariposa… and I don’t need the depth. I already do a lot of reading and … More

US Air 1549 ditched in the Hudson on Jan 15. That is, as we speak, ten days ago and has become the Story That Won’t Go Away. On Crash Day NBC gave the story the entire first segment, eleven minutes. Seemed excessive then, and it was just the beginning. Today they had voice over of … More We need a new plane crash

Charlie Smith was the over-night assistant city editor at the Sun-Times in Chicago when I worked there…. you know, a while back. Charlie came in just after midnight and baby sat Chicago until the next morning, mostly with darn little to do. It was a just-in-case kind of slot. There was a single desk assistant … More On the problem of determining sanity