From the press release: In response to overall Government cutbacks and projected reductions in appropriated funding, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) informed employees today of its plan to send a request to Congress and the Office of Personnel Management…
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Censor My Camera? We Have The Technology
07
Jun
Apple made a lot of news yesterday with iCloud and other various announcements. One little piece of Apple news that is getting far less attention is word of an Apple patent application published by the Patent & Trademark Office last…
On Creating "Super" Databases: The Wilson-EBSCO Merger
06
Jun
Following up on Mark Giangrande’s And Then There Was One Fewer post, additional details provided by EBSCO including the supplied chart (below; click to enlarge) are available at InfoDocket’s New: Chart Showing How EBSCO and H.W. Wilson Databases Will Be…
Round-Up of Law Practitioner Blogs
05
Jun
White Collar Criminal and Regulatory Lawyer Blog http://www.whitecollarcriminalandregulatorylawyerblog.com http://www.whitecollarcriminalandregulatorylawyerblog.com/index.xml Reviews white collar crime cases, news and reports in New Jersey. Published by Ambrosio & Tomczak. California Truck Accident Attorney Blog http://www.californiatruckaccidentattorneyblog.com http://www.californiatruckaccidentattorneyblog.com/index.xml Discusses truck accident cases, reports and news in…
Official Illinois Reports Published by West Not Yet West-Mart’s "Deal of the Day"
03
Jun
But, hey, Illinois Office Supreme Court Reports, 2d and Illinois Official Appellate Reports, 3d are both on sale today at West-Mart (both pages last visited on June 3, 2011) and you can buy them with an “assured pricing plan.” Due…
RSS Feed Rot-AALL Style
01
Jun
Looking for AALL news in your feed reader. Ya ain’t gonna find it. Not even a notice published in either of AALL’s “News Feed” or “Latest News Need” old RSS feeds about feed changes. I’m thinking the pending re-launch of…
Femi Cadmus Appointed Cornell Law Librarian
01
Jun
Congratulations to Femi Cadmus who has accepted the position of Law Librarian and Associate Dean for Library Services at Cornell Law School and will succeed Claire Germain later this summer. For the past three years, Femi has served as the…
Round-Up of Law Practitioner Blogs
29
May
St. Louis Injury Attorneys Blog http://www.stlouisinjuryattorneysblog.com/ http://www.stlouisinjuryattorneysblog.com/index.xml Reviews personal injury law news, cases, and reports in Missouri. Published by Law Offices of Marshall R. Hoekel, LLC and Robert Goldson, The Goldson Law Firm. Kentucky Employment Lawyer Blog http://www.kentuckyemploymentlawyerblog.com/ http://www.kentuckyemploymentlawyerblog.com/index.xml Reviews…
The Brits aren’t coming, THEY’RE HERE!
Tonight, PIERS MORGAN, 45, starts his CNN contract on air, replacing the redoubtable Larry King, 77, in the time-slot of Larry King Live. King avoided controversy. Morgan looks for it. He comes from his editorship of the London tabloids The Sun, The News of the World, and the Daily Mirror. Interesting choice. I was only aware of him as a judge on America’s Got Talent.
But last night I saw him as an interviewer on a 2 year old show from England, with his take on Hollywood in January 2009 from the British POV. Much has happened since then due to the economy, but one remark of his rings in my ears.
"Talent success in Hollywood is measured by how much money you make – for others."
That is so true, and is why so many lives fall apart when the talented souls are no longer useful to the real world, and are left with personal identity crises. I’ve always avoided the middle men, the agents and managers and press agents, since my child actor days and the following 33 years with the late Lynn Redgrave. Now? My bad!
Then I watched the Golden Globes. Host Ricky Gervais is not my favorite comedian, with his scattershot technique. But the shots he lobbed to any and all sitting there were what we used to call Home Truths, nobody being spared. And my question is, is America going through a phase of self flagellation? If so, then Morgan will last just so long as he’s put up with. But his style will obsolesce the likes of Barbara Walters and Regis Philbin for a while. However, middle America won’t like him at all. Will that translate into money problems for CNN, the advertisers and the like? CNN is in it for the money, and as long as it comes in, he’s there to stay. But I think he won’t last too long.
Good luck to him, a healthy change – for now. Look forward to real debate Oxford style, instead of the steady stream of one-sided right wing invective which flows from most well paid radio talk show hosts, who assume we are a nation of idiots, and ignore the fact that there are a lot of schizophrenics out there. But that’s a whole other subject!
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