Brown's campaign spokesman, Dan Newman, said Monday night: "We look forward to what we hope will be a thoughtful and substantive event, and we are particularly pleased that the diverse and respected group of media hosts will make it available and accessible to virtually every interested Californian".
In a world obsessed by glitz and glamour of large-scale, bells-and-whistles events, the thoughtful, discreet and gentle idea of the Organ of Corti utterly caught their imagination".
At a time when news is delivered instantaneously, and reflection on the news is crowded out by the latest piece of "news," why would you transform the Week in Review into the Sunday Review, which feels more like a weekly magazine (redundant in the Sunday Times) and increasingly less like a place where I can go to find thoughtful reflection on the events of the past week?
Only a fool would tune into "Christmas in Rockefeller Center, NBCC's annual tree-lighting special, for a thoughtful response to the events of the day.
Others were thoughtful, and saw the event as an uncomfortable piece of theatre in which private apologies were lumped in with public ones.
"The Iceman Cometh" a play by Eugene O'Neill had its Oslo premier at the Norwegina National Theatre a few nights ago & each of the seven Oslo newspapers-there are ten of them in all-devoted a solid 2-column of thoughtful criticism of the event.
On Thursday, Adam Zed, who blogs at Pikchures (he's also a rather good photographer), wrote a thoughtful post about the event, ruminating on the strange urge many Twitter users feel to post reactions as quickly as possible, to avoid being "last second's news".
By A. J. Liebling The New Yorker, May 22 , 1948P. 63 "The Iceman Cometh" a play by Eugene O'Neill had its Oslo premier at the Norwegina National Theatre a few nights ago & each of the seven Oslo newspapers-there are ten of them in all-devoted a solid 2-column of thoughtful criticism of the event.
But given the way Flight 1549 has been elevated to miracle status, that thoughtful books about the event should be stirring controversy and generating reader interest is a happy outcome indeed.
The marketing concept was brilliant and like other historically successful efforts, the approach to the whole event was thoughtful, fun, integrated, personal, creative and buzz-worthy from start to finish.
