Pork Bellies

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Friendlyvision
WORDmeister Note: Yesterday would have been Fred Friendly’s 97th birthday.

“Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It’s a commodity now, just like pork bellies.”

—Fred Friendly (born Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer, 1915-1998), TV news pioneer, producer and CBS News president. (see Ralph Engleman’s 2009 biography, Friendlyvision.) Image: CBS, 1962

(Thanks to alert WORDster Alexandra Halsey)

 

• Longtime CBS News colleague Dan Rather called Friendly “a fierce and mighty warrior for the best . . . principles in journalism, . . . for his friends, and for his country. He never gave up, he never gave in; he never backed down, and he never backed up.”

• Editorial Comment: Some TV gives pork bellies a bad name.

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from the Poynter Institute’s Craig Silverman about fake photos of Hurricane Sandy? Click here.

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café


• Cache Rendezvous from Aggie TV News: Cache Valley’s TV magazine show (10/30/12)

• Presidential candidate blasts press for short-changing U.S. citizens, by D. Whitney Smith
• Rocky Anderson: 3rd party presidential candidate comes to USU (includes full video of his talk)
• ATV News: Tibetan monks, LDS Democrats, Pumpkin Walk & sports (10/24/12)
• Public hearing on short-term rentals in Providence gets no response, by Dani Hayes
• Landmark Construction wins contract for Smithfield Civic Center, by Katie Swain
• School board discusses rezoning of Logan’s gravel pit area, by Heidi Vaughan
• Where does taxpayer money go? Richmond’s recorder knows, by Heidi Vaughan
• Obama-Romney too close to call, opinion pollster tells USU audience, by Shayna Marcure

PeezPIX by Ted Pease

Cache Valley Autumn, Utah State University campus
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(Be)Friend Dr. Ted, Professor of Interesting Stuff 

TV Noise

Distraction

“I can’t watch TV. It seems silly. And I spend so much time on the road and . . . TV feels cheap to me and I feel dirty after I watched it. I don’t have a TV and yet we, you know, you go to a restaurant these days and there are 10 TVs on and there is music being piped in, and . . . life has this casino feel. Sometimes I feel like modern life all around me is trying to trick me into forgetting what’s meaningful, by distracting me.”

—Tift Merritt, musician, “Tift Merritt: A Singer With An Outsider’s Heart,” interview on National Public Radio, Oct. 9, 2012

Listen to Tift Merritt on Mountain Stage

• Editorial Comment: I’m sorry, what were you saying? ESPN was on . . .

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from NYTimes reporter Somini Sengupta on the challenge of free speech on a global Internet? Click here.

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café

• Aggie TV this week: Congo visitors, a journalism safari, bikers and Blackhawks
• Logan wood-fired pizza restaurant will stay and expand, by Jessica Sonderegger
• Nibley rejects request for beautification funds; land is private property, by Danielle Manley
• Review: Buckethead still making it happen after 20 years, by Matt Thurber
• Congolese officials visit Logan, sign cooperation agreement with USU
• RIP: A year later, USU Eastern remembers beloved coach, by the staff of the USU Eastern Eagle
• USU Eastern campus near lock down after gunshots; Price resident arrested, by Seth Richards
• Exhibit of writer Jack London’s papers opens at Merrill-Cazier Library, by Aimee Cobabe, Misty Inglet and Heidi Smith 
• Journalism students hit undeadline to cover USU zombie outbreak
• Popular Zumba class ending; teacher made class ‘feel like a party’, by Dani Hays

• Banned books: ‘Are we still talking about this?’ asks First Amendment ‘absolutist’, by D. Whitney Smith
• Richmond P&Z members learn basics of making land-use decisions, by Heidi Vaughan
• Aggie journalism students tell stories of hope & heartbreak from Africa, by D. Whitney Smith 

PeezPIX by Ted Pease

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