January 2006

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

I saw this ad in The New Yorker, a few weeks ago for Anderson Cooper. It's the kind of type face that makes me suspicious that thefullmonte may be having an influence. A friend who knows him pretty well sent him sent Anderson the link. I give Anderson Cooper credit for a moment I saw during Katrina, he was interviewing Senator Lott from Mississippi who was claiming what a good job the Government was doing, and Anderson Cooper responded " I am standing next to a dead body reality on the street is different. It was an impossibly rare moment though. A moment when power was not securely separated from reality. Power could not hide behind a press conference, or press event, Reality lay dead on the street.

Monday, January 16, 2006

I often work a weekend shift in the White House Briefing room, mostly doing live shots. A few of my colleagues in the White House Press Corps have been wearing thefullmonte hats. They like what we are doing.

A CNN Staff cameraman told me CNN made him take off a thefullmonte sticker he put on his CNN Video Camera. He told them to check out the website. Cameraman put stickers of rock band or sports team on their cameras. A generational distinction seems to be evolving around our name. Youth get the barbwire, and youth gets the "full" as in the full story. It's the old folks, stogy thinking that seems to think of something else.