Thursday, 04/01/04

I'm mostly posting these NPR links to the 9/11 commission's public hearings (day one and day two) for my own benefit -- NPR's site layout baffles me sometimes, and I'm not sure I'll find them again later.

If you haven't heard Clarke's testimony (and Cohen's, to a lesser extent), you're missing some amazing moments. Having read most of Clarke's book (plus Fred Kaplan's assessment of the administration feeding frenzy) I want to find the time to listen to Tenet again.

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2003's Peabody award winners are up. I've only seen a handful. Bill Moyers gets a lifetime achievement award. I just recently saw Nova's "The Elegant Universe", after a plug from Jon Carroll. Paul Solmon, the whimsically compelling economics correspondent for the NewsHour, has long been a favorite of mine. Transom.org, a clearinghouse for radio geeks, may well spawn a second generation of little Ira Glasses; it's the first time a Peabody has been awarded to a web site.

The Wire won, after two 13-episode seasons of the most compelling, richly detailed TV I watched in those years. I was saddened to learn that the show's executive producer, Robert Colesberry, died in February from complications from heart surgery. His obituary reads like the sort of thing to which every high-school screwup semiconsciously aspires, myself included.

It seems noteworthy that the only entertainment shows to win a Peabody this year, The Wire and The Office, are on the upper reaches of cable TV. Well, plus Dora the Explorer, but even Nickelodeon isn't available via broadcast.

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