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First Spinach, Now Milk

Posted by schulz on Saturday, September 23, 2006 7:23:07 PM
Tainted unpasteurized milk recalled in San Diego County:

First spinach and now tainted milk has infected people with E. coli bacteria, including two San Diego County children, prompting a recall Friday of some milk products, health officials said.

A boy and girl, both 8, became sick after drinking unpasteurized milk produced by Organic Pastures, a Fresno County dairy, according to the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency.

Surely these e. coli outbreaks are coincidental, but the fear-mongering conservative in me has to wonder...are terrorists targeting granola-crunching, liberal health nuts with their most vile of, yet devilishly simple weapons - their own crap?
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Katie's Blowing Wheat Fields

Posted by schulz on Saturday, September 23, 2006 7:08:33 PM
I haven't seen Katie Couric's re-imagined Evening News yet, but I'll be tuning in for the first 10 seconds tonight after coming across this amusing WSJ Article concerning Katie and company's efforts to sweeten the sound of the Evening News theme.  Can you make it aggressively cute?

"It must be urgent and serious, yet light," says the program's executive producer, Rome Hartman. "Flexible, yet memorable. Regal and encompassing the grand history of CBS News, yet moving forward."

The music couldn't sound too similar to the "Roman fanfares" of NBC and ABC, Mr. Horner says, adding, "Katie told me she wanted something that reminded her of wheat fields blowing rather than Manhattan skyline"

How about something that says..."News"?  

And my favorite part, imagining this scene:

Five CBS News executives stood in a silent huddle around a cheap CD player on the desk in Ms. Couric's suite. As the music rang through the room, Ms. Couric squinted with concentration. Then she called Mr. Horner on his cellphone, says Mr. Peterson. She had three words for the maestro: "We love it."

I wonder what was going through Katie's head as she "squinted with concentration".  Surely, it was visions of waving wheat, blowing in a warm, middle American evening.
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