MMMM # 577 --- Tired ot the U.S. Senate Debate? Watch one from 15 years ago!

      It was 2002, and Jeff Sessions was going for a second term in the U.S. Senate. The Democrats had nominated Susan Parker. And they debated for a full hour with yours truly as moderator. We all looked younger than the fifteen years that have passed!
     Another thing that is gone are the three largest newspaper in the state names as sponsors.

Noted: Senator Sessions argued that we should have a united front against Saddam Hussein, so he might back down.  

Watch Video HERE. 

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     Speaking of changes: the last printed edition of The Village Voice will soon leave  the printing presses and go out for delivery. 

The New York Times: “The print pages of The Village Voice were a place to discover Jacques Derrida or phone sex services, to hone one’s antipathy to authority or gentrification, to score authoritative judgments about what was in the city’s jazz clubs or off off Broadway theaters on a Wednesday night. In the latter part of the last century, before “Sex and the City,” it was where many New Yorkers learned to be New Yorkers. “

      I had been assigned to write a freelance story for The Voice in 1976 when I lived there, but I had accepted my first Alabama job and was moving. Someone at The Voice had seen an article I wrote for another local New York paper about a little pocket park in Manhattan and like it. My loss!
 
PLUS: The Washington Post reports on the financial plight of The Newsuseum in D.C.:

"It doesn’t require a PhD in comparative literature to see the Newseum’s troubles as a metaphor for the besieged state of the American press."

A good read.


[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of www.TimLennox.com, celebrating a decade on line this Fall!]