Word: sakes
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...Meanwhile, over at CNN, you have to wonder if the first cable news network hasn't finally become the new PBS, and not in a good way. (Let's assume for the sake of argument it's possible for that phrase to be taken in a good way.) Thoroughness, yes. Crack, thoughtful analysts and reporters, sure. But CNN's coverage tonight lacks any sense of excitement and urgency. Bill Schneider, Bernard Shaw, Judy Woodruff and Jeff Greenfield, spread out along a giant desk, come across at times like four strangers laconically chatting while waiting for a bus. And though...
...Same Funeral, New Corpse If you are not watching CBS at this moment, for God's sake, get up and change the channel now. It's getting into the wee morning hours, and that means we're reaching the sweet spot with Dan Rather, whose delivery is getting stranger, more rambling and Shatneresque by the moment. The man just delivered a sentence that may have lasted a full minute. "John making the point - because the Gore people making the point to them - that they cling to the idea - and it's not too far-fetched - they cling to the idea...
Freshman backup quarterback Conor Black entered Saturday's game without that experience. When he came in near the end of the game, he ran the weakside option play and took one of the most vicious hits of the entire game--all for the sake of a play that gained three yards...
...Perhaps Bush senses there's a smallness about newshounds too. Some of us want to get on the air just for the sake of the exposure, not because we have a new fact or idea to report. Mom was the first glamour TV gal - with matching ego - so she would have sympathized with us (if she wasn't stepping on our necks to get to the camera). She loved seeing herself on television, and she loved gossip. She had an undifferentiated hunger for the news, but she had a civics-class feeling about it. She thought all this information...
...altruistic and idealistic sense. It's an art, or what the Germans call heilige kunst, or 'holy art.' That's why I create publishing companies and record companies; it has to do with helping composers, performers, etc. I've always believed in the creed of making music for the sake of the art. Whether I starve or make money is irrelevant...