Chicago - A message from the station manager

By Steve Rhodes

“Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th) referred to the media as ‘jackals’ at a fund-raising event Tuesday night and said her husband was at home and doing well,” the Sun-Times reports.
“The jackals are outside. Let them stay outside,” she shouted into a microphone, referring to the press staked outside a birthday fund-raising bash. “We are family in here . . . it’s because of you all that I keep it going on.”

But at least one would-be jackal was considered family enough to be allowed in for an exclusive “interview.”
It’s not hard to see why that “reporter” was chosen.

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Posted on September 26, 2012

Into The Valley Of The Space Invaders

By FuzzyMemoriesTV

“Here’s a promo for Into the Valley of the Space Invaders on WFLD Channel 32, about the video gaming phenomenon, which aired Monday, April 26th 1982. I believe this special was produced at KBHK-TV – a Field Communications station in San Francisco – and featured Bob Wilkins as host. Voiceover by Jim Barton. This promo aired on Sunday, April 25th, 1982.”

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Posted on September 24, 2012

Walter’s Weird Perspective Now A Book!

Highly Readable!

Oh Lord!
We’ve had our fun with ol’ Walter around here. To wit:
* The Weirdness of Walter Jacobson
* Walter’s Weird Whitney Wailing
But if his book really does reveal “meddling by corporate and network executives” as promised in the press release below, it will be worth a read.
Unfortunately, the publishers warn that “it is ultimately Jacobson’s story, a memoir of a long and distinguished (and sometimes highly controversial) career.”
Ugh.

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Posted on September 20, 2012

Tavi Gevinson On Jimmy Fallon

‘Solid Dude’

Oak Park fashion blogger, style icon and media maven Tavi Gevinson, now 16, appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this week. He seemed genuinely charmed.
She, too.


Here it is.

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Posted on September 13, 2012

Off The Grid In 1979

Uploaded To YouTube By TheMotiondevotion

“This 1979 WMAQ-TV (NBC Chicago) news segment was located on a dusty Betamax tape. It profiles a visionary family and their experience going ‘off the grid’ at a time when that phrase did not yet exist and the concept was almost unknown.”

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Posted on August 31, 2012

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