Posted on 12/17/2008 5:15:05 AM PST by abb
ou probably sat in a fancier conference room the last time you refinanced or heard a pitch about life insurance. There's a table, some off-brand mesh office chairs, a bookcase that looks as if it had been put together with an Allen wrench and instructions in Swedish.
To reach this room, you pass through a cubicle farm lightly populated by quiet young people. Either they have just arrived or they are just leaving, because their desks are almost bare. The place has a vaguely familiar feel to it, this air of transient shabbiness and nondescriptitude. You can't quite put your finger on it ...
"It's like the set of The Office," someone offers.
Bingo.
It is here that we find Barack Obama one soul-freezingly cold December day, mentally unpacking the crate of crushing problems some old, some new, all ugly that he is about to inherit as the 44th President of the United States. Most of his hours inside the presidential-transition office are spent in this bland and bare-bones room. You would think the President-elect a guy who draws 100,000 people to a speech in St. Louis, Mo., who raises three-quarters of a billion dollars, who is facing the toughest first year since Franklin Roosevelt's might merit a leather chair. Maybe a credenza? A hutch?
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Snort
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-onthemedia17-2008dec17,0,3940377.story
How long can newspapers keep delivering the news?
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003923149
Former ‘Freep’ Publisher Meriwether: Delivery Cuts Good and Bad
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081217/METRO/812170368/1001
Dailies reveal unique delivery changes
http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Broadcastrecap_64/For_broadcast_strike_s_hurt_runs_deep.asp
For broadcast, strike’s hurt runs deep
http://www.slate.com/id/2206854/
The Digital Slay-RideWhat’s killing newspapers is the same thing that killed the slide rule.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122887202494593459.html
New York Times Takes Steps to Aid Liquidity
There is no Time.
It is just a delusion.
The Future of TIME
The worst part? They named him 2008 Person Of The Year back in January after the Iowa Caucus...
he is about to inherit as the 44th President of the United States.
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He is about to STEAL not inherit. Unless he might inherit the whirlwind.
We will NOT give up hunting for the truth. Veritas vos Liberabit.
They had to change the designation. If it were "man of the year," he wouldn't have met the qualifications for consideration.
Is this not the same magazine that once named Hitler and Stalin Person of the Year?????.....
So relax.
Time should save the resources and cancel the next “person of the year” editions for the next 4 years. It’s clearly going to be The One for the near future.
http://communicationleadershipblog.uscannenberg.org/2008/12/its-about-time-newspapers-star.html
It’s about time newspapers started fighting back
http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/media/e3i02e36c1955cd4966c3f3e0b0881bc2d9
TV Studios Shift to AFTRA
Switching from SAG to protect against actors strike
Oh, my God! Just ran across the Hootie and the Blowfish cover of that song.
Talk about ROOOONED!!!!
They shoulda been shot...
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