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Ann Curry Today Show Debacle: The Best Allegory yet for the Woeful State of News Coverage, Information media, Journalism
Matt Lauer triumphs over Ann, a true professional. Neither Murdoch and Fox News, nor World Star Hip Hop or Drudge or The Daily Caller or Perez Hilton or Real Housewives is anything more than a symptom. Ann’s dumping, and then getting $10million for it, is as good a symbolic story as any.Especially in TV medium. Especially….
The Textual, Tactile, Tittilating, Tantrum-ridden, Totally multimedia musings & sometime portfolio of Dangerfield Newby, by and through is instrument on Earth, Christopher Alan Chambers. Newby died in 1859 in John Brown's raid on the federal company town of Harpers Ferry. White townspeople fed his dead body to pigs. He joined Brown to forstall the sale of his wife, not to start a revolution. And in dying, he started a revolution. His body's long disintegrated into loam; his consciousness survives in bits and bytes. Enjoy. Engage. Enrage.
Chambers is alive, of course, and lives 80 miles from Harpers Ferry in Washington DC. He teaches at Georgetown University, contributes to RT America, MSNBC and Smithsonian Magazine.
