More Money Than Brains (29 page)
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Authors: Laura Penny
CHAPTER SIX: MORE IS LESS
1
. From
The State of the News Media, 2006
, the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual report.
2
. “The Death of Journalism” appeared on Huckabee’s self-titled Fox News show on September 14, 2009. The full text is available online at
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,550160,00.html
.
3
. Bill Bishop, “America’s Partisan Reading List,” The Big Sort blog,
Slate.com
, posted October 29, 2008. Available online at
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/archive/2008/10/29/the-many-ways-we-sort-ourselves.aspx
.
4
. Sacred Heart University’s annual poll, “Trust and Satisfaction with the Media,” was released September 2009. Results are available online at
http://www.sacredheart.edu/pages/30046_shu_national_poll_trust_and_satisfaction_with_the_national_news_media.cfm
.
5
. Allison Hope Weiner, “The Web Site Celebrities Fear,”
New York Times
, June 25, 2007, p. C1.
6
. Upton appeared on nbc’s
Today
show on August 28, 2007.
7
. Pew Research Center for People and the Press, “Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two-Decade Low: Public Evaluations of the News Media, 1985–2009,” September 14, 2009. Full results are available online at
http://people-press.org/report/543/#prc-jump
.
8
. Kris Kodrich, “Uncovering the Truth,”
Denver Post
, October 22, 2009. Available online at
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_13612051
.
9
. Anne Trubek, “We Are All Writers Now,” More Intelligent Life blog,
The Economist
. Available online at
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/anne-trubek/we-are-all-writers-now
.
10
. “Clive Thompson on the New Literacy,”
Wired
, August 24, 2009. Available online at
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson
.
11
. The full lists are available online at
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
.
12
. John Markoff, “The Passion of Steve Jobs,” bits blog,
New York Times
, January 15, 2008.
13
. National Endowment for the Arts, “Reading on the Rise,” January 2009. The full report is available online at
http://www.arts.gov/research/readingonRise.pdf
.
14
. The poll found that more Americans (73%) than Canadians (69%) read a book in the past year. See “Canadian Book Readers Fall Behind U.S.: Poll,” Canwest News Service, January 1, 2008. Available online at
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=81b3a991-6004-4ca8-8259-4d605e1cf767&k=50303
.
15
. Turner-Riggs for Department of Canadian Heritage, “The Book Retail Sector in Canada,” September 2007. The full report is available online at
http://www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/padie-bpidp/rep/rapp-rep_07/rapport-pdf-report-eng.pdf
.
16
. Craig Wilson, “Professor Pausch’s Life, ‘Lecture’ Go from Web to
Book,”
USA Today
, April 8, 2008. Available online at
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-04-07-pausch_N.htm
.
17
. These figures are from the trade analysts Bowker’s Books in Print database.
18
. Liguori made the remark at the 2008 “upfronts,” the presentation of the network’s new shows. Available online at
http://www.slate.com/id/2191209/
.
19
. Enjoy the clip yourself at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANTDkfkoBaI&feature=related
.
CHAPTER SEVEN: IF YOU’RE SO SMART, WHY AIN’T YOU RICH?
1
. Paris said this to Barbara Walters, whom she had called collect from jail. It ran on
ABC
and was widely and swiftly quoted in both the old and new media.
2
. Margaret Spellings, commencement address, Montgomery College (Montgomery County, MD), May 17, 2006.
3
. The transcript of the Palin/Hannity interview is available on the Fox News website at
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,424346,00.html
.
4
. The transcript of the vice-presidential debate is available on cnn’s website at
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/02/debate.transcript/
.
5
. The clip was posted by a kindly soul named Connecticut Bob. You can watch the shit-show on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAEIcsOL2n4
.
6
. The
Wall Street Journal
‘s Washington Wire has the full text of his speech at
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/02/07/text-of-romneys-speech-i-hate-to-lose/
.
7
. Santelli’s rant is available on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEZB4taSEoA
.
8
. Matt Taibbi, “Wall Street’s Naked Swindle,”
Rolling Stone
. The online version, posted on October 14, 2009, is available at
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/30481512/wall_streets_naked_swindle/1
.
9
. Nancy Keates, “Realtors’ Former Top Economist Says Don’t Blame the Messenger,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 12, 2009, p. A1.
10
. An excellent episode of
PBS’S
Frontline
profi les Brooksley Born and her concerns about the financial system. It is called “The Warning,” and you can watch it online at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist
.
11
. Hannah Arendt,
On Revolution
(London: Penguin Books, 1963).
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