The hype is over, as Ferrell reunites his news team and drags them into New York, the 80s and the 24-hour era.
"When CNN was born as a concept, we all said: 'The 24-hour era of news has arrived; think of the topics we can cover,' " he said in a telephone interview late Monday.
It didn't even do this in the financial markets: in this real-time, 24-hour, electronic era, it took a full year for Thailand's devaluation in July 1997 to find its way across the steppes to Russia, which defaulted on its debt in August 1998; and it took a year and a half to help bring on a Brazilian devaluation early this year.
It was like rush hour in the era of interplanetary travel.
The players were ticked off, posing with visiting fans at a late hour in an era when social media makes something local international instantly.
Two centuries on, a student of modern conflict might be forced to recast the doctrine for the globalized, 24-hour-news-cycle era: War is a political act pursued to the extent that politics itself permits.
The dense details in the Powerslave, Somewhere In Time, Seventh Son era meant hours could be whiled away immersed in the worlds on the sleeves while the epic solos carried on.
Nothing will take away the hysteria of those ones who have never stopped pouring contempt upon him, hounding him through hatred and asking for his punishment as if we were living the darkest and most ferocious hours of the McCarthy era all over again.
"In the Glow of Television, Many Messages: Venerable Format of 'PBS NewsHour' Struggles With the New Era of Media" (Business Day, June 14) presents a skewed picture of the "PBS News Hour today.
— ROBERT MACKEY As Reuters reports, Egypt's state news agency said that Egypt's leading Muslim and Christian clerics and the opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei were expected to present a "road map" for the post-Morsi era within the hour.
And now that we are firmly in the era of 24 hour news watching with the sound turned down, it doesn't really matter what Dave says about the environment when he's in Norway.
