Thomasina in Tom Stoppard's mind bending time warping play, ARCADIA, observes that when you stir raspberry jam into vanilla pudding it will first swirl in streaks but ultimately will turn the entire pudding pink. If you stir the pudding in the opposite direction, the jam will not separate back out again. --LIFE MOVES ONLY FORWARD--NEVER BACK!--
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Angotti Speaks to Good Crowd
In spite of March Madness, Joe Angotti, former NBC Nightly News Executive Producer, fielded a crowd of over eighty people last night at the Buchanan Center for the Arts. His address, on the the nature of the news media in the modern world, argued that though the media were often accused of being biased it was actually the viewer's pre-dispositions and perceptions that created the impressions of political slant. In the years that he worked with Tom Brokaw, Angotti noted that they would keep two piles of letters received from viewers. One pile accused the program of being too conservative and the other pile of being too liberal. The funny thing was that over time the piles generally remained about the same height and that gave the producers confidence that their reporting was actually pretty even handed. After his talk Angotti opened the floor to questions for another thirty minutes.
The program was jointly sponsored by the Warren County Library and the Buchanan Center for the Arts.
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