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...wait a second. People have been packing the station wagon and heading off to college for decades. How is it that just four years ago, when Kenley Monson's mother Carol shipped her brother off to college, she took her son to Goodwill to buy what he needed? And when Carol struck out on her own great collegiate adventure 32 years ago, she went shopping in her parents' attic...
More than four years ago, in February of 2000, my local CBS affiliate in Chicago tried something different. With the mantra “no water-skiing squirrels” and the expertise of veteran Chi-town anchor Carol Marin, “The 10 p.m. News with Carol Marin” attempted to take local news back in time. Gone were the menacing, sensational teasers as the station went to commercial—“What your family should know about strangulation this Christmas season”—replaced by Marin standing and reciting the day?...
...throwback to the 1950s. And fifty years behind its time, the newscast failed. By August, there were rumblings that the CBS affiliate would can the format. By November, Carol Marin and her hardcore local news posse were toast. Their attempt at de-sensationalizing local news had only revealed the extent to which Americans (or at least Chicagoans) had become accustomed to the current sorry, sensationalized state of news in America...
...media companies to stray from absolute neutrality. Slant the news a little, and you’ve instantly differentiated your newspaper or TV station from the competition. Add headlines more sensationalized and jingoistic than your competitors, and you’ve instantly beaten them. Wooden information-deliverers like Carol Marin don’t stand a chance against the boisterous Bill O’Reilly and the seductive Paula Zahn. The media are a business, and their business is presenting biased information in a way that catches the eye of their target viewers...
...Luxury is so prevalent now," says Carol Brodie, spokeswoman for jewelry company Harry Winston. "You see so much heavy-duty cashmere and fur in the stores. It hasn't been like this since the 1980s." Indeed, the fall collections are among the most extravagant in recent history, with fur trim and crystal beading showing up on every tweed coat and charmeuse evening dress. Thanks to the weak dollar against the euro, prices for these clothes are up a whopping 20%, but so are sales. Houses like Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Gucci have all reported double-digit increases...