EP25 The Long View

it's hardcore history I hear from many of you that say just turn on the microphone and talk and it'll be a good show and we'll be glad to get it so today will perhaps be a test of this Theory's validity what's held up today's show for a while now is probably some old training in a news business that doesn't exist anymore where as a youngster learning the ropes you would come back to your editor with some facts some information some quotes some background stuff um and you present it to them and they'd say okay what's the story right meaning all these elements that you have have the makings for a good news story but what are you trying to say I mean is this a man bites dog story or is it a dog bites man Story I mean you know you don't know a lot of the more complicated stories require somebody telling you what the story is what does all this mean write all this information you're throwing my way what am I supposed to think and so I was trying to apply that to Today's Show and it just completely discombobulated the entire thing because I'm not trying to tell you what to think at all nor do I have a point sometimes I'll talk to people you know via social media or whatever and they'll say be fun to have dinner with you well this is what dinner might be like I'm just warning you a bunch of different things that have nothing to do with anything else I mean I used to love Larry King's newspaper column back in the 80s 1980s at that time Larry King was like the busiest man on Earth he did TV he did radio he did a newspaper column and uh looking at him now I have no idea how he accomplished it all but he certainly organized his projects in a way that you know took into account how busy he was because the newspaper column was well I don't even know how to describe it to you imagine 40 sentences each sentence have have no connection to any of the other sentences in the piece so it would say something like before President Reagan heads off to this Summit with the Soviet Union he needs to bear in mind you know the ...