This is the set where Gwen Ifill does Washington Week. I got a chance to visit the studio today. Neat!
The Washington Week studio is in the same room as the NewsHour studio, separated by a few walls that could be pushed out of the way as needed.
It always strikes me as amazing how great a set can look on TV with components dominated by a collection of wires, lights, plastic filters, duct tape and cheap carpeting.
Bob Schulman, one of my journalism mentors when I was in college, has died. I’ll post some more thoughts later.
Amy Goodman, with whom I usually have serious disagreements, has a few tasty points chipping away at protectionist Lou Dobbs’ credibility.
Reason.com has an interview with Kentucky’s own proud purveyor of crap news, Drew Curtis. An excerpt relating to our proud commonwealth:
If you wanted to learn about what kind of society we live in just from watching news, one of the things you’d come away with is thinking nobody swears. Vice President Cheney told somebody to “Fuck off” on the floor of the Senate and that was some kind of massive deal. “Oh my God, how could you do this? How could you?!” Come on. I live in Kentucky. It’s every third word down here.
My own interview with Drew is here. Yes, there is some cursing.
Lou Dobbs had himself quite a story tonight. I grabbed this shot with my phone at the gym (click through for the full-size image):
That’s right. The flow of heroin and cocaine have been stopped. That should come as quite a relief. Billions of dollars saved. Bam. I could have sworn that drugs won the Drug War years ago. I could be mistaken.
Memo to Lou Dobbs: By the time you aired this story, the flow of heroin and cocaine had resumed again. Sorry to be the one to tell you.
Nick Gillespie points to a surreal interview with Keith Olbermann in which the multiply-fired host gives us thick, ropey jets of wisdom like …
Al Qaeda really hurt us but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda–worse for our society. It’s as dangerous an organization as the Ku Klux Klan ever was….Half the people there ought to be in an insane asylum….[Fox shows] Family Guy and The Simpsons are marvelously subversive, state-of-the-comic-art. It’s just a coincidence that I guest-starred on Family Guy last season and I’ll be on The Simpsons this year.
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I have six lower vertebrae, not the usual five, which may make my spine more rigid than most. Make of that what you will.
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I don’t normally do this, but I felt compelled to tell you something. You have an absolutely breath-taking… heiney. I mean, that thing’s good. I wanna be friends with it.
That last one was Ron Burgundy, but holy shnikeys! I can only imagine what Olbermann would say about the demise of the Weekly World News.
