let’s line up PW bloggers for the group clueless shot
The group clueless look is especially adorable.
Admittedly I learned about the Internet in October of 1994 when I put an email address into an ad I wrote for a client that appeared in the New York Times. Well, I guess if I suggested that they include an email address (probono@delphi.com), I must have known what it was before that. So in ’94 it was a little bit below the surface except — I was using MCI Mail as a journalist in the 1980s, as were all portable journalists (using MCI Mail or similar services) to file our copy from remote events. So how network journalists don’t know…what the little @ means…is pretty goofy.
with some research I’ve dug out that ad…does it look like Planet Waves?
And although EBs may only be in thrift shops now, I think some tvnewshows still use the 3-monkey setup.
Oh, it’s just a standard set of Encyclopedia Britannica. But likely just A-H.
Love the screen shot. It has a three monkeys, hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil intentional ignorance about it.
Doubt the target audience for the Today show in 1994 was well informed. Is the target audience in 2011 any better informed?
At least now most television journalists look openly clueless to me. Either I or they have changed.
I saw that — they seem so erudite! Scholarly, too…
PS The books on the set/shelf behind them make it even funnier.
lol! True enough. Lucky me/us to have you!
By 1994, this is just ridiculous.
But we have a little evidence how little you know to be a “journalist.”
Katie C. seems to be choking back urges to respond to the others’ lack of knowledge.
I find it hard to believe that there was this level of ignorance in 1994??? wow. Interconnectedness via computer had been a vital part of work/jobs for me for quite some time at that point. Maybe it had to do with where and for whom I worked – cause I don’t remember any particular division between not having internet and having it.
But what a difference a day makes, eh? Or 15 years anyway.
let’s line up PW bloggers for the group clueless shot
The group clueless look is especially adorable.
Admittedly I learned about the Internet in October of 1994 when I put an email address into an ad I wrote for a client that appeared in the New York Times. Well, I guess if I suggested that they include an email address (probono@delphi.com), I must have known what it was before that. So in ’94 it was a little bit below the surface except — I was using MCI Mail as a journalist in the 1980s, as were all portable journalists (using MCI Mail or similar services) to file our copy from remote events. So how network journalists don’t know…what the little @ means…is pretty goofy.
with some research I’ve dug out that ad…does it look like Planet Waves?
http://www.judgewatch.org/../../correspondence-nys/1997/6-2-97-exI-1.pdf
only A-H. hahahaha!!!
And although EBs may only be in thrift shops now, I think some tvnewshows still use the 3-monkey setup.
Oh, it’s just a standard set of Encyclopedia Britannica. But likely just A-H.
Love the screen shot. It has a three monkeys, hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil intentional ignorance about it.
Doubt the target audience for the Today show in 1994 was well informed. Is the target audience in 2011 any better informed?
At least now most television journalists look openly clueless to me. Either I or they have changed.
I saw that — they seem so erudite! Scholarly, too…
PS The books on the set/shelf behind them make it even funnier.
lol! True enough. Lucky me/us to have you!
By 1994, this is just ridiculous.
But we have a little evidence how little you know to be a “journalist.”
Katie C. seems to be choking back urges to respond to the others’ lack of knowledge.
I find it hard to believe that there was this level of ignorance in 1994??? wow. Interconnectedness via computer had been a vital part of work/jobs for me for quite some time at that point. Maybe it had to do with where and for whom I worked – cause I don’t remember any particular division between not having internet and having it.
But what a difference a day makes, eh? Or 15 years anyway.