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...much easier for a station's news directors to listen to police dispatchers and send out a reporter when something juicy is happening than it is for them to create substantive story assignments about the effect of for-profit hospitals in the region or political patronage at the State House. WHDH does broadcast what it terms "investigative reports," but these reports very infrequently involve anything more than WHDH's reporter taking credit for someone else's research or placing a few calls in response to a viewer's complaint about being cheated by a business...
...years--the power that addles his judgment and scrambles his more decent instruments. He should move far from Washington (not to Tennessee) and find a job among real people. He should take a vow of political silence. He should grow a beard, discard his ego and, for two years, listen to people. He should learn to walk like a normal human being...
...that he and Miles were bosom buddies. If you're interested in Nisenson, read Nisenson; if you're interested in how the record was made, read Kahn; and if you're interested in what makes a piece of quiet, understated music survive four decades of rock, rap and ruckus, listen to the album again--and again and again...
...about writing, as I'm sure one of you must have been. No need, because Robert Goulet has beaten you to it, saying in a letter last October that I am "a sheer delight." He then added, "Can we meet, and can you just let me hang out and listen and observe?" For those of you who have never got a mash note from a Broadway star, let me inform you that Goulet letters are not sent through the U.S. mail but are inserted into FedEx envelopes. Somebody sold more Man of La Mancha albums than we thought...
...past couple of years dreaming up utterly outlandish text-display inventions like Speeder Reader. There's the Tilty Table, a vast and thin computer screen on shock absorbers that you tilt in any direction to scroll through a document that would in real life be 30 ft. across; Listen Reader, which uses tiny embedded computer chips to produce different ambient sounds on each page of a children's book; and the Reading-Eye Dog, a robotic pet that uses a text-to-voice synthesizer to read out anything you care to put in front of it (making it fetch...