Jan. 2nd, 2008

jenk: Faye (daria smile)
Goethe taught, "Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be."
My sarcastic side notes this requires an opinion about how others can and should be. My realistic side notes that in some cases (manners, common sense) we tend expect others to act accordingly anyway - or at least we bitch mightily when they don't.

And from earlier in December:
Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master ... "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" He replied, "I never leave my place of meditation." He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.
-o-

Immersion in great literature or great music can provide a similar renewal of spirit for some. There are others who find it in the way they communicate with nature. Nature bequeaths its own blessing on those who immerse themselves in it.
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For a time, you're undisturbable, almost unflappable, until gradually the noise and discord from outside start to invade that sense of inner peace.
Happy new year :)
jenk: Faye (Default)
[livejournal.com profile] siderea posted on the meme's background at length, noting that it was developed as a learning exercise for college students about them and their classmates, and is meant to be applied to your life conditions at the time you started college.

For the curious, it appears to be based on the "Take A Step Forward" exercise at http://wbarratt.indstate.edu/socialclass/social_class_on_campus.htm.

Me ... well, and my mom and dad. )
jenk: Faye (Jen40)
Happy Birthday, [livejournal.com profile] dustin_00 :)

TV news

Jan. 2nd, 2008 09:40 pm
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I thought that I didn't watch network news because the signal-to-noise level was way too low. But this article in Technology Review by former Dateline correspondent John Hockenberry has numerous good points too. On To Catch a Predator:
Dateline's notion of New Media was the technological equivalent of etching "For a good time call Sally" on a men's room stall and waiting with cameras to see if anybody copied down the number.
On watching trends:
I knew it was pretty much over for television news when I discovered in 2003 that the heads of NBC's news division and entertainment division, the president of the network, and the chairman all owned TiVos, which enabled them to zap past the commercials that paid their salaries.
On "edgy" programming:
Entertainment programs often took on issues that would never fly on Dateline. On a Thursday night, ER could do a story line on the medically uninsured, but a night later, such a "downer story" was a much harder sell. In the time I was at NBC, you were more likely to hear federal agriculture policy discussed on The West Wing, or even on Jon Stewart, than you were to see it reported in any depth on Dateline.
Oh, and there's the bit about how GE owns NBC and does lots of business with the Bin Ladens. Could GE help Dateline get an interview with the Bin Laden family? Oh. Dear me. No.

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