In From the Cold: Denial is Not a River In Egypt…
Array-ne Now that most of the new and returning shows have had their season premiere, a look at the ratings after week #1:-Total Viewers:CSI (CBS, season premiere: 29.02 million)Desperate Housewives (ABC, season premiere: 28.36)Lost (ABC, season premiere: 23.47)Criminal Minds (CBS, Thursday 10 p.m. preview: 19.57)CSI: Miami (CBS, season premiere: 19.21)Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, season premiere: 18.98)Survivor: Guatemala (CBS: 16.98)Law & Order: SVU (NBC, season premiere: 16.82)Invasion (ABC, premiere: 16.43)Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC: 16.41)60 Minutes (CBS, season premiere: 16.35)NFL Monday Night Football (ABC: 16.10)NCIS (CBS, season premiere: 15.48)Destination Lost (ABC: 15.27)My Name Is Earl (NBC, premiere: 15.25)Two and a Half Men (CBS, season premiere: 15.04)ER (NBC, season premiere: 14.37)Cold Case (CBS, season premiere: 13.68)House (Fox: 13.64)Out Of Practice (CBS, premiere: 13.18)Crossing Jordan (NBC, season premiere: 13.08)Law & Order (NBC, season premiere: 13.03)Medium (NBC, season premiere: 12.69)Las Vegas (NBC, season premiere: 12.49)Ghost Whisperer (CBS, premiere: 11.25)Surface (NBC, premiere)Numb3rs (CBS, season premiere: 11.18 each)How I Met Your Mother (CBS, premiere: 10.94)Dancing With the Stars: Dance-Off (ABC, 10.91)CSI R (CBS, Wednesday: 10.75)
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-ne Simon Garfield writes in the Radio Times this week a short piece about Mass Observation. We know this to be true from an exact and fascinating source - the personal diaries of those who lived through these years and agreed to share their daily experiences with a unique organisation called Mass Observation, the purpose of which was to learn more about how ordinary people spent their days and what they thought about the world. Anyway I’m especially looking forward to the second volume of Garfields astonishing collection of diaries We are at War. A drama documentary called Little Kinsey, also based on 1949 mass observation diaries and focusing on bedroom habits, is on BBC Four next Wednesday.
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Which brings me to reading his cris de couer: RESURRECTING THE WRITER So you’d expect literary agents to be hungry for new manuscripts, right? Literary agents are not keen on writers sending them manuscripts. In fact, literary agents do their utmost to dissuade writers from sending them manuscripts. Most literary agents, when they go to bed at night, dream of strangling the mail carrier who keeps delivering unsolicited manuscripts. So wrong it’s actually laugh out loud funny cause that’s EXACTLY how A&R guys listen to music!I’m not sure what planet this well intentioned but severely misinformed guy is on but I’ve been IN music meetings, and been to Film Music Group panel presentations and listened to music supervisors talk about how they pick music.In addition, I also sell music books and work with composers and musicians. It’s not hard to get the attention of a literary agent, or an A&R guy if you’ve got the goods. Agents and A&R guys can look at ten pages, or 60 seconds and know if they want to hear more. Where Mr. Bookner here is going astray is in thinking that agents give EVERYONE only sixty seconds or ten pages. IF you’ve got the goods, IF your work is good, A&R guys listen further and agents read more, or ask for more. The literary agent system of gate keeping to publishing isn’t broken.
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pregnancies suddenly entered the national debate over President’s Bush’s astonishingly incompetent failure to rescue the poor in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina?The answer is obvious: It’s a great way to change the subject, and to remind us that in contemporary America, only unmarried mothers fail to demonstrate “personal responsibility.”Never mind that neither the Pentagon nor Congress can account for the 00 billion that have been spent waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan. What a perfect moment to change the subject and blame poor African-American women for causing the poverty the world witnessed in the aftermath of Katrina. The decline in teenage pregnancies since the early 1990s, particularly among African-American girls, indicates that young women are, in fact, taking greater personal responsibility. Ending welfare—without providing affordable child care and health care, paid family leave and a higher minimum wage—-hasn’t kept working women and their families from plunging below the poverty line.Poor women, moreover, are not the only ones choosing to raise children by themselves. Still others may be reluctant to settle for anything less than a partner committed to an egalitarian marriage.The fact is, women’s lives have dramatically changed during the last 40 years, but neither our government nor our society have made the necessary changes that should have accompanied the entry of such huge numbers of women into the labor force.Meanwhile, social conservatives gaze upon the human consequences of their policies, are embarrassed by what they see, and then attack unmarried mothers for their lack of personal responsibility—and condemn them for the poverty exposed by Katrina.A nifty argument, if they can get away with it.Ruth Rosen, professor emeritus at U.C.
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-ne …At least for Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, the journalistic team that brought you the expose of President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard, that was based on forged documents. In another era, Mapes and Rather would now be referred to as disgraced former journalists, unable to land a reporting job on a school newspaper, or the community shopper that lands in your driveway every Wednesday. Scott Johnson and John Hinderaker at Powerline–who rose to national prominence for helping the CBS fraud–do a nice job of deconstructing the Mapes account.
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Array-ne Now that most of the new and returning shows have had their season premiere, a look at the ratings after week #1:-Total Viewers:CSI (CBS, season premiere: 29.02 million)Desperate Housewives (ABC, season premiere: 28.36)Lost (ABC, season premiere: 23.47)Criminal Minds (CBS, Thursday 10 p.m. preview: 19.57)CSI: Miami (CBS, season premiere: 19.21)Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, season premiere: 18.98)Survivor: Guatemala (CBS: 16.98)Law & Order: SVU (NBC, season premiere: 16.82)Invasion (ABC, premiere: 16.43)Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC: 16.41)60 Minutes (CBS, season premiere: 16.35)NFL Monday Night Football (ABC: 16.10)NCIS (CBS, season premiere: 15.48)Destination Lost (ABC: 15.27)My Name Is Earl (NBC, premiere: 15.25)Two and a Half Men (CBS, season premiere: 15.04)ER (NBC, season premiere: 14.37)Cold Case (CBS, season premiere: 13.68)House (Fox: 13.64)Out Of Practice (CBS, premiere: 13.18)Crossing Jordan (NBC, season premiere: 13.08)Law & Order (NBC, season premiere: 13.03)Medium (NBC, season premiere: 12.69)Las Vegas (NBC, season premiere: 12.49)Ghost Whisperer (CBS, premiere: 11.25)Surface (NBC, premiere)Numb3rs (CBS, season premiere: 11.18 each)How I Met Your Mother (CBS, premiere: 10.94)Dancing With the Stars: Dance-Off (ABC, 10.91)CSI R (CBS, Wednesday: 10.75)
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-ne Simon Garfield writes in the Radio Times this week a short piece about Mass Observation. We know this to be true from an exact and fascinating source - the personal diaries of those who lived through these years and agreed to share their daily experiences with a unique organisation called Mass Observation, the purpose of which was to learn more about how ordinary people spent their days and what they thought about the world. Anyway I’m especially looking forward to the second volume of Garfields astonishing collection of diaries We are at War. A drama documentary called Little Kinsey, also based on 1949 mass observation diaries and focusing on bedroom habits, is on BBC Four next Wednesday.
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Which brings me to reading his cris de couer: RESURRECTING THE WRITER So you’d expect literary agents to be hungry for new manuscripts, right? Literary agents are not keen on writers sending them manuscripts. In fact, literary agents do their utmost to dissuade writers from sending them manuscripts. Most literary agents, when they go to bed at night, dream of strangling the mail carrier who keeps delivering unsolicited manuscripts. So wrong it’s actually laugh out loud funny cause that’s EXACTLY how A&R guys listen to music!I’m not sure what planet this well intentioned but severely misinformed guy is on but I’ve been IN music meetings, and been to Film Music Group panel presentations and listened to music supervisors talk about how they pick music.In addition, I also sell music books and work with composers and musicians. It’s not hard to get the attention of a literary agent, or an A&R guy if you’ve got the goods. Agents and A&R guys can look at ten pages, or 60 seconds and know if they want to hear more. Where Mr. Bookner here is going astray is in thinking that agents give EVERYONE only sixty seconds or ten pages. IF you’ve got the goods, IF your work is good, A&R guys listen further and agents read more, or ask for more. The literary agent system of gate keeping to publishing isn’t broken.
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pregnancies suddenly entered the national debate over President’s Bush’s astonishingly incompetent failure to rescue the poor in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina?The answer is obvious: It’s a great way to change the subject, and to remind us that in contemporary America, only unmarried mothers fail to demonstrate “personal responsibility.”Never mind that neither the Pentagon nor Congress can account for the 00 billion that have been spent waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan. What a perfect moment to change the subject and blame poor African-American women for causing the poverty the world witnessed in the aftermath of Katrina. The decline in teenage pregnancies since the early 1990s, particularly among African-American girls, indicates that young women are, in fact, taking greater personal responsibility. Ending welfare—without providing affordable child care and health care, paid family leave and a higher minimum wage—-hasn’t kept working women and their families from plunging below the poverty line.Poor women, moreover, are not the only ones choosing to raise children by themselves. Still others may be reluctant to settle for anything less than a partner committed to an egalitarian marriage.The fact is, women’s lives have dramatically changed during the last 40 years, but neither our government nor our society have made the necessary changes that should have accompanied the entry of such huge numbers of women into the labor force.Meanwhile, social conservatives gaze upon the human consequences of their policies, are embarrassed by what they see, and then attack unmarried mothers for their lack of personal responsibility—and condemn them for the poverty exposed by Katrina.A nifty argument, if they can get away with it.Ruth Rosen, professor emeritus at U.C.
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-ne …At least for Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, the journalistic team that brought you the expose of President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard, that was based on forged documents. In another era, Mapes and Rather would now be referred to as disgraced former journalists, unable to land a reporting job on a school newspaper, or the community shopper that lands in your driveway every Wednesday. Scott Johnson and John Hinderaker at Powerline–who rose to national prominence for helping the CBS fraud–do a nice job of deconstructing the Mapes account.
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