David Simon among witnesses tomorrow at Senate's "future of journalism" hearing

"Pardon me, sir, did you see what happened?"

"Yeah, I did. Half-time, I's just goin' down there to get Ethel a snow cone. Here he come, right outta the cheap seats, dribblin'. Right down the middle of the floor. Didn't have on nothin' but his Keds! Made a hook shot 'n got out through the concession stand. I hollered up at Ethel, I said "DON'T LOOK, ETHEL!!" But it was too late. She'd already gotten a free shot. Grandstand. Right there'n front of the home team."

 

Ah, the genius that is Ray Stevens.

 

Ray Stevens RULZ!!

 

Someone page Boom, I'm getting worried. This is the longest he's ever gone on a Kerry-themed thread without making fun of him. Come back to us Boom!!

 

It'll be live this afternon on C-SPAN 3 from 2:30-5:30 or so. Some digital cable systems and the occasional public-access cable channel will air C-SPAN 3 as a complement to C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2.

It will also be up on the site on-demand, I'm sure.

 

That's it. It's window dressing and they'll say, "we feel your pain." And then they'll throw some bailout dollars at newspaper CEOs and no one will benefit from those dollars except the newspaper CEOs. And Warren Buffett will be seen flipping all of us off.

 

I don't see any newspaper companies getting a dime of bail-out money.

Ideally (to my mind, at least), this'll be a push in the effort to allow newspapers to organize as low-profit entities.

Though I doubt anything will come of it except some hand-wringing from Kerry to feel the Globe's pain, and possibly some statements from the Google rep that make me want to reach through the Internet and throttle her. I still hold out hope Simon will launch into some sort of holier-than-thou rant that will, if nothing, be entertaining.

However it goes, I'll definitely try and watch it when I get home from work tonight.

 

I'm partial to the Sammy Sosa "no speak-a the english" approach, myself.

 

Thanks JJ for putting this dog-and-pony show in proper perspective. (Um, the hearings, not this thread)

 

I can only imagine the seizures in publisher's offices if they were required to plow profits back into their own papers. I'm sure janitors would be stocking up on 409 to clean the brain matter off of the ceilings.

 

What in the hell is Arianna going to tell them? "Fix the business? Just tell publishers to marry rich husbands."