Friday

I can't believe it's Friday already. I have been incredibly busy at work and the house has extracted it's cost to my time afterwards.

Since Barack Obama announced that he'll be accepting the nomination at Invesco field in Denver the networks, who had threatened petulance, have decided that it's petulance after all. Politico reported on it Tuesday.

Network executives expect Obama’s relatively late-breaking decision to speak at Invesco Field at Mile High, a 76,000-seat football stadium, could add hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs to already cash-strapped news divisions. Each network has budgeted millions to cover the political conventions, but that spending is already accounted for in specific costs ranging from hotel rooms to staffing to building convention platforms.

The, ahem, money quote.

“It’s an historic event, obviously,” said a network executive. “But everybody is working on a very tight budget.”

The poor, poor networks; the networks that make money hand over fist, the networks that moved their news operations into their entertainment or sports divisions, those same networks who think that spending money on your business is hard on their bottom line.

Do you really think these sellers of soap, these makers of immense quarterly profit, these moguls of mainstream thought, really have your best interests at heart? Heh

Wikipedia reminds us that today is the anniversary of the Burr-Hamilton duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. The view from the bluffs is spectacular. Too bad that on this day in 1804 it witnessed the death of one and the demise of the other.