12.14
More on the ubiquitous voices in media (I’ll stop sometime)
Do you watch Frontline? You should, by the way. Best news-magazine style show on TV. Frontline retains a certain air of sober integrity amongst the crop of glitzy, ratings-hungry news-magazines one finds on network television. Anyway, much as there is a signature vocal manner associated with the marketing of films (embodied by these guys) Frontline, since I began watching it some years ago, has been graced with the commanding vocal imprint of one Will Lyman…and so has BMW.
This isn’t breaking news (this article bemoaning this association is from ‘05 after all) but as I have been thinking, lately, about signature voices in the media Mr. Lyman was bound to crop up.
Frontline is an incomparable, top-notch news-magazine program. I continue to watch it whenever I can. It’s hard, now, though, to get “The Ultimate Driving Machine” out of my head when I do.
11.21
7.28
Mothers are more likely to do time Seems a bit unfair. I can’t imagine anyone’s life after having their child die like this. Even if you don’t do time, well, the punishment you receive will last a lifetime. Sad.
This is a surprising bit from the article as well: “The correlation between the rise in these deaths and the 1990s move to put children in the back seat is striking.“