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...often hear the word used, typically in the maligned politician’s plea that his absurd-sounding quote was “taken out of context.” Watch TV news, and you may begin to feel like the whole election is out of context, and it’s going to be up to the voter to put it all together. The very structure of television media minimizes context, since only the skeleton of a story can survive the cutting that it takes to reduce a complex issue into a two minute “package?...
...popularity of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” is a good example of our sensitivity to context. Unlike other nighttime political humor on the Leno-Letterman-Conan axis, Stewart relies less on jokes that begin with a nugget of news, followed by a made-up punch line. For the most part, the humor of his “fake” news routine lies in the fact that it’s not fake at all…he allows politicians and journalists to mock themselves. My friends and I often blink in disbelief...
...Vera Orozco, the nanny, arrives to begin her 10 1/2-hour shift at the Nevinses'. Cheryl, a labor lawyer for the Chicago board of education, hands over the baby and checks her e-mail from the kitchen table. "I almost feel apprehensive if I leave for work without logging on," she confesses. Between messages, she helps Ryan pull blue Play-Doh from a container, then briefs Orozco on the morning's events: "They woke up early. Ryan had his poop this morning, this guy has not." Throughout the day, Orozco...
...Some readers thought the outsourcing of U.S. jobs overseas should begin at the top. "Corporate executives should ship their own jobs abroad," wrote a Vermonter. "The savings would be much greater than a mere computer programmer's salary." A Utah reader warned that "the big shots don't realize it, but their own jobs are in jeopardy and will be leaving soon." And a New Yorker saw a deficit-reduction bonanza: "Americans could save billions if we outsourced our Federal Government! Certainly there must be citizens of India who would be glad to act as our legislators for a fraction...
REVELATIONS Shooting will begin later in the month on this pilot for an NBC mini-series, a modern take on the biblical struggle between God and the Devil...