“One cool thing in the book is that it includes scripts that Edward R Murrow rewrote. Scripts that were handed to him, and it shows how he rewrote them. For example, one he was handed said: ‘Mao Tse-Tung has relinquished one of his posts,’ and Murrow changes it to: ‘Mao Tse-Tung has given up one of his top posts.’ It’s things like that. You wouldn’t use ‘relinquish’ on the radio. You don’t say ‘prior to’, you say ‘before’. You don’t say ‘protracted’ legal battle, you say ‘long’ legal battle.” — Guy Raz on Essential Reading for Reporters | FiveBooks | The Browser
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@currentpubmedia: [@acarvin] didn’t just retweet content without comment but vetted it, asking for confirmation, sourcing, more details, playing his followers against each other as if he were an assigning editor of an incorporeal newsroom.
He became a dogged beat reporter, far removed from the scene but covering it at all hours, exposing his messy and complicated process for all to see.
” — My article for Current.org about Andy Carvin (above excerpted by huckleberryhart)(via huckleberryhart)
“As a boy I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart and then on the test they asked essay questions.” — Woody Allen joke from The American Scholar: My Stardust Memories - William Zinsser
“He has a very special way of playing drums, as if he were guzzling something very tasty,” Yoshimi, a drummer in the Boredoms, wrote in an e-mail message.” — Kid Millions’ New Solo Album Has Maximum Drumming - NYTimes.com
“Do me a favor and get rid of that dignity of yours! Go and run in the fields, gallop across the plains like a horse; jump rope, and when you’re six years old, you won’t know anything any more, and you’ll see mad things.” — Arthur Cravan, from Arthur Cravan & Roberto Bolano
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Here’s a mix my friend Leah and I put together for her wedding — R&B classics with some more recent funk and soul mixed in. Enjoy. (M3U stream.)
“… a row of parking meters that had witnessed a panicked flight all acquired the opaque and dreadful importance that innocent objects acquire in nightmares.” — Updike on the Kennedy assassination
“Protest is transformative precisely because people emerge, encounter one another face-to-face, and, in re-learning the habits of freedom, build new institutions, relationships and organisations.” — Naomi Wolf — We May Be Witnessing the First Large Global Conflict Where People Are Aligned by Consciousness and Not Nation State or Religion | Activism & Vision | AlterNet
(Source: oscillateswildly, via ohhaitommywiseau)