Today’s lunchtime news chum brings together three articles about folks that were once in the news:
- Edward R. Murrow. The NY Times has a nice article on Edward R. Murrow High School in NYC, where there was once a vaunted TV news and production training program. Alas, technology moves and the schools can’t keep up, and what was once model training is outdated… attendance drops, and the program gets killed in budget cuts. This is of interest to me as my daughter currently attends a performing arts magnet, which has the same problems: with school budgets tightening, how can schools afford to keep up-to-date and current and provide relevant technical training?
- David Horowitz. Growing up in Los Angeles, you couldn’t miss the maverick consumer reporters we once had: David Horowitz on KNBC 4, Alan Mendelson on KCAL 9, and Judd McIlvain on KCBS 2. News budgets get cut, and these reporters have disappeared. The LA Times has a nice article on whatever happened to them. Many have gone to the for-profit side: still pushing consumer issues, but for paying customers. Some do infomercials. Sigh.
- Marlo Thomas. Growing up, I used to watch That Girl on ABC. It was one show you never really saw in reruns; you certainly don’t see it today. Yet Marlo Thomas is still around, and hawking her new book about growing up with her dad.
Bonus Chum
And a bonus item for you: How about a spaghetti taco? It appears that a one-time joke inserted into a Disney channel show has become a culinary reality. It’s amazing how things happen. Next thing you know, I’ll be reading about someone attempting a revival of that classic theatrical flop, Carrie. Oh, right.
