Last week we were treated to another obituary for print. Thus time from Steve Balmer of Microsoft. Once again, someone with authority put the death watch on the print news business. 5 years. 8 years. Wait I’ll set my oven timer. Okay enough. I have been spending the last 6 months (and much of it … Read more
As much a monument or icon as a performer, the death today of Michael Jackson is a seismic cultural event. Nobody more important in his generation. A titanic talent. Perhaps maybe too much for the vessel. Here’s a piece from back in the day.
Neda Agha-Soltan’s life is sketched in below, from CNN. Her life as an icon has just begun. And as we grieve for her and the tragedy of Iran, we can be forgiven to nod to the fact that Neda, living at that time and place, has in her short life, illuminated the world. “The second … Read more
This week Jane Mayer interviewed CIA Chief Leon Panetta in The New Yorker. The mainstream press highlighted Panetta’s comment about Cheney’s dire predictions: “I think he smells some blood in the water on the national-security issue,” he told me. “It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if … Read more
