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...news maw is expanding exponentially, and the news just can't keep up. It used to be almost a law of nature that a political story would expand to fill the media space available for its exposure. But that was before a couple of recent developments. One is the endless campaign. The day after every presidential election, the media take the pledge. They say, O.K., that's it. People deserve a break. Next time we are not going to let the presidential campaign start full-bore two years before the election. And every cycle the campaign starts earlier. This...
...years later, crisis management is proving harder than ever. (Just ask Don Imus.) The biggest change comes from the demands of always-on news. Companies now have to sweat not only the morning's headlines but endless blog postings and runaway video clips that can (and do) appear 24 hours a day. Even when there isn't much new information, blogs can keep a crisis alive--and smart companies must pay as much attention to them as they do to the national media...
...suite mates told CNN last night that "he was just like a shadow." Mostly what he did every day was this: sit in the spare common area of the six-man suite in Harper Hall and type on his laptop. But he didn't spend endless hours on Facebook or wired into his iPod. He also never talked about his family. He didn't seem to have friends, and he rarely spoke, even to his roommate. He ventured out to attend class, to eat and, since February, to work out at the gym for the first time...
...read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and seen the movies and let it go at that. Then there are the hardcore - the Uruk-hai of Tolkien readers - who have delved further, into The Silmarillion and beyond, who seriously grok the deep history and elaborate geography and endless mystical genealogies of Middle Earth. Now there's a "new" work of Tolkien fiction called The Children of Húrin, cobbled together by Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R., out of manuscripts left behind by his dad. As it happens, it's got something for both of the Tolkien tribes...
...media democratization presents us all with a real test: Thanks to Google Earth and the seemingly endless flow of information from all around the world, we can all see and know like never before...