The “less talk” thing kind of hits home this week as somewhere in the
netherreaches of CBS Radio, a decision was made this week to muzzle
Rick Emerson and turn him into a DJ who can give me the time and
temperature but little else. Instead of filling my head with
amusing anecdotes and obscure pop culture references, The Rick Emerson
Show is now something that plays between Rush and the Red Hot Chili
Peppers. And that’s no way to live.
Rick, Tim, and Sarah
have been pros throughout this entire thing. They’ve carried on
and made no mention of what’s happened either on-air or off. They
certainly haven’t talked to me, not that I’ve asked. That said, I
miss my friends.
There’s a blog dedicated to restoring the show to its former self.
I’ll be swinging by the studios this week to drop off some Viso
and a couple of coffee cups for station management. Hopefully this
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geek talk in sort
order.
Apparently there’s a pretty lively discussion out there about whether
this was a put on. Perhaps. Why everyone chooses to do this to Dave
and not, say…Ellen, is mystifying.
The Fan’s Isaac Ropp
made an interesting point about LeBron James today. He suggested
if King James were given the choice between his image or a championship
ring, he would choose his image. “LeBron,” he said, “wants to be
the first billionaire athlete.” Fair enough.
This debate about money or the ring seems silly to me. In sports, as in life, money is the ring.
“Center-right” is talk-radio code designed to make their followers
believe what they’re watching in the current conservative movement is
somehow moderate. That George Bush, Tom Delay, Bill Frist, Denny
Hastert, and John Boener are just middle-of-the-road average
dudes. They’re not. Sean Hannity, Hugh Hewitt, and Dennis
Prager all use the phrase to describe themselves. They’re all far
from “center-right”. To choose “that” phrase introduce oneself
tells me everything I need to know about a particular conservative.
Welcome to Portland, Ms Hovde. I trust Messers Campbell, Day, Nelson, and Atkinson have all updated their contacts.
Like any Northwesterner, I enjoy watching national media figures
discuss local items. It could be politics, it could be climate, it
could be sports. So I was excited to tune into tonight’s Seahawks
game to hear John Madden talk about the team. Oh, I don’t care
about the Seahawks. They’ve been dead to me ever since the
Nordstroms sold them. But they’re still a local team, right?
Imagine my surprise when I turned on the TV to hear Cris Collinsworth
calling te game alongside Al Michaels. This can’t be right.
Yet it is.
He was in San Diego last Sunday for the Patriots game. They
wanted to give the big guy an extra week off and save him the
cross-country ride to Tampa. He’s earned it, I guess. He’s
72.
He started his broadcasting career in 1979. I was 8.
That’s why this is shocking. I’ve never known the NFL without
him. Yes, he’s a buffoon. Yes, he’s become just short of a
parody of himself. But I don’t care. To me, he’s the
NFL. I know it’s a big deal when he shows up. I don’t think I
want to know the NFL without him.
Robert De Niro’s character Ace Rothstein in Casino,
one of my all-time favorite movies, was based on Rosenthal. USA
just showed the movie yesterday. Don’t know whether that was
planned or not. Either way, Rosenthal was as much an innovator as
he was a bad guy.
Adam Curry has this fantastic quote he’s been using for years.
There are no secrets, only information you don’t yet have.
I was reminded of that yesterday while I listened to the Rick Emerson show. He had CNN correspondent Steve Kastenbaum
on discussing the Wall Street roller coaster. During their
conversation, Kastenbaum dropped a whopper. He said the likelihood
of another depression was minuscule because we have faster access to so
much more information now than we did in 1929.
Has he been paying attention at all? The reason we’re in this crisis is because
of the unprecedented amount of secrecy among our financial
institutions. Just look at the bailout. No one knows what
any of these mortgage backed securities are worth, which is why no one
can trade them. That’s a lack of information. And it’s that
continued lack of information which spooked the markets today.
Will the government pay too little for the securities? Too
much? Who knows?
The credit default swaps which brought down Lehman were done almost
entirely in secret. How in the hell is anyone supposed to make
heads or tails of this without basic information? Yet the meme persists
that everything has been laid bare. It simply hasn’t.
You should do yourself a favor and check out this week’s episode of This American Life.
It deals with what exactly happened and why the bailout was
required. Some fascinating listening. Had Paulson made that
same case on 60 Minutes (CBS would have undoubtedly given him the entire
hour had he requested it), I think the bill would have passed the first
time around. Instead, he chose to speak in obscure code.
I’ve no idea why.
