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Network News: The Pace of Change Accelerates
By Emily Guskin and Tom Rosenstiel of PEJ
The year 2011 was one of marked transition and even some positive numbers for network news.
The audiences for most network newscasts grew, and the three network news divisions, which for decades were hard to tell apart except for the faces on air, began to distinguish themselves from one another in what they defined as news. ABC and CBS also saw their web traffic grow.
Some of this reflected changes in top management at the networks and on air. Some of it reflected the nature of the year in the news.
The year was also marked by financial changes at the PBS NewsHour.
Evening News Audiences
By the most concrete and financially significant measurement — total viewership — 2011 was a good year for network news programs.
In the evening, an average of 22.5 million people watched one of the three commercial broadcast news programs on ABC, CBS or NBC.
That is an increase of 972,700 viewers, or 4.5%, over the average viewership the year before, according to PEJ analysis of data from Nielsen Media Research.
Some of the growth, moreover, came from an unexpected source. All three evening newscasts added viewers in the much-coveted 25-to-54 age group, according to Deborah Potter, the director of the NewsLab, an online resource and training center for journalists (and co-author of the local news chapter of this report). "In fact, nearly a quarter of the growth in viewership in the second quarter came from that demographic," Potter wrote in an analysis of the data.1
And viewership at all three network evening newscasts grew.
In 2011, according to Nielsen, an average of 8.75 million viewers watched the NBC Nightly News each night while 7.82 million watched ABC and 5.97 million watched CBS.
That growth was, at least to some degree, attributable to the news: 2011 saw the Arab Spring, the death of Osama bin Laden, the shooting in Tucson, a royal wedding in Britain and a tsunami in Japan, among other major events. Viewership grew for both cable and local news in 2011 as well.
In the long erosion of network news audiences, however, there have been other upticks in the past — the end of the Cold War, the first Gulf War and the 9/11 attacks, all of which proved short-lived.
The broad trend is unmistakable. Since 1980, the three commercial evening newscasts have lost about 28.4 million viewers, or 54.5% of their audience.2
(See network data section for more on network evening news audiences in 2011, including information on the other two audience metrics, ratings and share.)
For all the losses, however, the network evening news remains an extraordinarily popular news source for Americans. More than four times as many people watched the three network evening newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC during the dinner hour than watched the highest-rated shows on the three cable news channels (CNN, Fox News and MSNBC) during prime time.3
And more than twice as many people watch the lowest-rated broadcast evening news program (CBS Evening News) than watch the highest-rated cable news program (The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News).
Growth varied among the networks. The audience leader, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, grew by the smallest margin. Average viewership for NBC grew by 250,500 viewers, or 2.9%, in 2011 to 8.75 million viewers.
ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer remained at the No. 2 spot in 2011, but the audience there grew by 398,200 viewers or 5.3% to 7.82 million. World News is narrowing its viewership gap with NBC.
And the show with the smallest audience of the three evening news programs, CBS Evening News, grew by the largest percentage, 5.8% or by 325,000 viewers to 5.97 million. Scott Pelley became the anchor of the program in June, replacing Katie Couric. Fairly quickly, viewers began sampling the new program. In August, for instance, his viewership figures were up 12.6% from Couric's the year before. For the seven months Pelley anchored during the year, his ratings were up an average of 8% from the year before; Couric's actually had begun to rise in the first five months of 2011 as well, but by half as much.
A year earlier, when audiences fell across the networks, NBC had seen the smallest declines. The upticks in 2011 thus suggest that some of the audience gains were people possibly trying network programs that they did not watch regularly before.
Morning News Audiences
Morning news audiences also grew in 2011, for the first time in seven years. Over all, 13.1 million people on average watched the three network morning news programs, up 5.4% from 12.4 million in 2010.
ABC's Good Morning America saw the most growth. NBC's Today Show also grew and CBS' Early Show was flat.
Good Morning America's average annual viewership grew to 4.8 million viewers. Its ratings also grew and its share grew to 13.2 in 2010. That means that more people watching TV during that time were tuned to ABC.
ABC also inched at times closer in viewership to NBC's Today Show. During its mid-September season premiere week, GMA was only 397,000 viewers away from Today on average, much fewer than the 1.1 million people that separated the two shows on average that same week in 2010, according to Nielsen data cited by the Wall Street Journal.4
CBS' Early Show, which was relaunched in January 2012 as CBS This Morning, was flat in 2011. Viewership grew marginally, 0.2% to 2.9 million viewers. Its ratings and share declined, but only by about 2%.
The most popular of the three network morning programs, NBC's Today Show, had a mixed year. Viewership grew 3.2% to 5.4 million viewers, but its ratings stayed the same and share dropped. That means that the total percentage of televisions tuned to the Today Show was the same, but fewer people who were watching TV at that time were watching Today.
The growth in news, both morning and evening, also stood in contrast to the trend in entertainment programming. All three broadcast networks lost viewers in prime time during the 2010-11 season compared to the year before. For example, NBC, with no Olympic programming, lost almost 14% of its prime time audience during the season. The network's morning news program, however, gained viewers in that time period – about 10%, according to the analysis by Potter of NewsLab. "That's a substantial swing, indicating that many viewers who flock to cable for entertainment at night are flipping to broadcast in the morning to watch the news," she suggested.5
News Magazine Audiences
In contrast with their morning and evening news counterparts, the primetime news magazine programs that air in competition with broadcast entertainment programs saw audiences decline in 2011.
The most notable exception to that was ABC News' Nightline, which airs after prime time (at 11:30 p.m. EST), and in 2011 actually bested its entertainment rivals, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Show and the Late Show with David Letterman.
The other exception, though the gain was smaller, was the Sunday edition of NBC's Dateline.
In 2011, Nightline's audience grew 5.8% to 3.9 million. This marked the first time ever that Nightline won its timeslot for a full broadcast season over Letterman and Leno. It also ranked first among adult viewers during the May sweeps period – beating the Tonight Show for the first time since 1995.6
The network's other news magazine, 20/20, had the largest drop of the network news magazines over the year, however. Its viewership fell by 11.3% to 4.9 million.
The oldest news magazine on the air, and still by far the most popular, CBS' 60 Minutes, saw only a slight decrease in viewership in 2011: down 0.78%. But 60 Minutes still averaged 11.6 million per week, making it the most popular news program in the U.S. yet again.
CBS' other news magazine, 48 Hours Mystery, dropped 6.6% over the year to 5.4 million viewers.
Dateline NBC had mixed fortunes depending on its timeslot. The Friday edition decreased 5.2% to 5.7 million. But the Sunday edition, which aired January through August, averaged 4.7 million viewers, a 5.3% increase from the year before, although ratings decreased for that program, meaning the overall percentage of total households watching the program went down, despite the number of viewers increasing.
Determining the economic status of a network news division is difficult. Networks do not publicly break out financial data for their news divisions.
One indicator comes from market research firms that track the overall revenue of network television generally, beyond news. For 2011, those estimates are down. Market research firms Kantar Media and Veronis Suhler Stevenson forecast that network ad revenue would decrease between 4% and 6% in 2011 from the year before.7 VSS attributed the estimated decrease to a "tough comparison with the 2010 recovery," including the absence of most political ads, a decline in automotive advertising revenue from Japanese manufacturers and no Olympics-based ad revenue.8
While advertising makes up about 87% of combined network revenue, according to VSS, the networks saw growth in the remaining slice of revenue. VSS estimated that revenue from the networks' online and mobile platforms grew by 21% in 2011. And revenue from retransmission fees, or compensation from cable and satellite providers paid to broadcasters for the right to carry their programming, grew by 39%. That growth helps balance out the ad revenue losses, resulting in an estimated total network revenue decline. Including that growth into the total network revenue results in an overall decrease of just 0.6%, according to VSS.9
And there are some signs at least that some of the news divisions fared better than the networks over all. One is the increase in news audiences. Another is seen in statements in SEC filings from ABC and CBS that their total broadcast ad revenues were up. A third is that NBC News benefits from cable news revenues, which were up.
At ABC, several pieces of evidence suggest the network over all had a better year financially in 2011 than 2010, but getting there was complicated. First, the network cut programming and production costs by $69 million, according to SEC filings.10 Cost cuts came from news and daytime programming as well as airing less expensive prime-time programming. In the most recent quarter, ending Dec. 31, 2011, the company reported flat advertising revenues for the ABC network.
ABC also raised its advertising rates, which resulted in higher advertising revenues in the financial year ending October 2011, an increase of $99 million from the same period the year before, or 2.5%, to a total of $4.1 billion.11
Given the improved ratings in news, if revenue at ABC News grew in line with the rest of the broadcast arm of the company, or 2.5%, that would put news division revenues at about $650 million for 2011.
One timeslot to gain revenue was morning news. According to estimates from Kantar, even before 2011, ABC's Good Morning America was on a financial upswing. The show took in $314 million from ads in 2010, up 6.3% from a year earlier, and that was before it narrowed the ratings gap with NBC's Today Show in 2011.12
CBS, however, has some advantages. Of the three networks, CBS has both the largest prime time audience and came into the 2011-12 season with the highest volume of advertising revenue, according to estimates by The New York Times.13
But CBS took a $46 million restructuring charge to reorganize the company's operations when it revamped its morning show, according to SEC filings and The New York Times. The corporation's chief financial officer, Joseph Ianniello, told The Times that the company would recoup the costs in 12 to 18 months.14
Over all, CBS' total revenue, beyond just news or advertising and including revenue from its cable channels, including Showtime, as well as its local TV and radio operations, book publishing and outdoor advertising, grew 1% in 2011, according to SEC filings. Its entertainment revenue, which includes income from CBS News, also saw a 1% increase to $7.46 billion for 2011.15 Some of this growth is likely due to the fact that while prime-time viewership went down for all three big networks, CBS was still the clear ratings winner. CBS also airs 60 Minutes, which is by far the highest-rated news magazine and often wins its timeslot on Sunday evenings.
If CBS News grew in line with the rest of the network, that would put revenue at about $430 million, against which any restructuring charges would be put.
NBC News has a broader and more complex revenue model than the other networks. It benefits from three cable news channels, MSNBC, CNBC and CNBC World, an international business channel. It can amortize the costs of its news division across more platforms, including MSNBC.com.
That helps NBC News escape the limitations of the broadcast revenue structure, which is mostly dependent on advertising. Cable channels earn revenue from both advertising and subscription fees. Therefore they can generate far more revenue per viewer than broadcast channels.
By our estimates, CNBC contributes more revenue to NBC News than any other unit, even though its audiences are much smaller than NBC's network viewership.
The cable parts of NBC News are also highly profitable. SNL Kagan projects an operating profit at CNBC of $435.8 million in 2011, up 6.9%. MSNBC's operating profit in 2011 was projected at $186.6 million, up 10.5%. CNBC World's operating profit was estimated to increase 37% in 2011 to $13.7 million.16
The broadcast arm of NBC over all had a 7.1% decrease in revenue in 2011, including a significant decreases from the loss of revenue generated by the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, lower overall ratings in 2011 and local stations it owns taking in less political ad revenue, according to SEC filings.17
Although NBC's primetime ratings slumped in 2011, its Nightly News and Today Show beat out the network competition and saw growth. Therefore, it is difficult to generalize from the NBC broadcast arm to NBC News.
PEJ estimates that if the broadcast news revenue at NBC News grew at a rate under those of its cable news divisions and better than its broadcast arm overall, by roughly 1%, that would amount to just under $860 million. NBC's total news revenue then, combining both cable and broadcast would come to about $2 billion in 2011.
Thus for all the long-term decline in network news audiences, and the fact that the once-omnipresent network news magazines have lost ground to reality programming, the network news divisions nevertheless remain an essential part of the network's identity. And at one network, NBC, the cross-platform model generates significant profit.
News Investment
Regardless of the different organizational and revenue structures, the staff sizes at all three network newsrooms are much smaller than in years past – less than half the size they were in the 1980s. But each network has managed those cuts differently.
ABC has indicated it is moving closer to a leaner model of newsgathering in which a significant number of people are engaged in so-called backpack journalism, in which one person serves as producer, correspondent and technical crew. NBC can afford more traditional multiperson teams. CBS has indicated that it is using a mix of approaches.
In 2011, each network went through personnel changes at top news positions.
All three evening news programs had new executive producers by the end of the year. At ABC World News, Michael Corn, a longtime producer for Good Morning America, took over as executive producer in September. At CBS Evening News, Patricia Shevlin was named the executive producer in June, at the same time Pelley took over for Couric. And at NBC Nightly News, Patrick Burkey was named the executive producer in July.
All three networks had changes in some anchor personnel, too, and some important changes behind-the-scenes.
At NBC, Steve Capus is now the longest-serving broadcast network news division president. He has run NBC News since 2005.
On air, Meredith Vieira left the Today Show, after opting for a one-year contract in 2010. Ann Curry replaced her, joining Matt Lauer as co-host. Curry had been the news anchor on Today since 1997 as well as the anchor at Dateline NBC. Lester Holt, one of Dateline NBC's correspondents, was named that show's anchor.
NBC also introduced a new news magazine in October, Rock Center With Brian Williams. The show is hosted by the Nightly News anchor and its correspondents include Harry Smith, who joined NBC in 2011 after a 25-year career with CBS, and Kate Snow. The show's ratings have not been as high as NBC hoped. Between three million and four million tune in to the show each week. These are good numbers for cable but weak for network programming. The executive producer is Rome Hartman, a long-time 60 Minutes producer who was Katie Couric's first executive producer when she took over the CBS Evening News, and left CBS when attempts to recast the broadcast to fit her talents did not prove effective.
CBS News in 2011 got new leadership at the top, a new anchor, a new morning show and adopted a new approach to news that it promoted as more "hard news."
At the top, Jeff Fager, the executive producer of 60 Minutes became the chairman of CBS News (a new position) in November and David Rhodes, who came from Bloomberg, had taken over as news division president in February.
The new CBS This Morning, which promotes putting "the news back in morning news," premiered Jan. 9, 2012. Its new hosts, Charlie Rose and Gayle King, join Erica Hill, one of the few holdovers from The Early Show. The network laid off about two dozen staff members when it made the change, according to the New York Times.18
At the anchor desk for the CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley replaced Katie Couric. And the network also said goodbye to Harry Smith, who went to NBC. In September, 60 Minutes' essayist Andy Rooney stepped down, shortly before he died.
In February 2012, CBS News brought back Person to Person, the interview program first hosted by Edward R. Murrow in the 1950s. The interviewers for this iteration of the show are Charlie Rose and Lara Logan. Its first week on air, the show brought in about six million viewers, and came in third place in its timeslot.19
ABC News also saw some changes both in front of and behind the camera. Ben Sherwood took over as news president from David Westin in early 2011. And in December, the network announced that its choice for This Week anchor, Christiane Amanpour had not worked and that it was returning to her predecessor, George Stephanopoulos. Amanpour stayed on the network as a reporter in addition to anchoring a weekday program for CNN International.
Leaving CBS, Katie Couric signed a multiyear contract with ABC to host a non-news daytime talk show. In this role, Couric will be part of the news division at ABC but will not anchor any programs.
The network also shifted around its talent. Juju Chang left Good Morning America to join Nightline as a correspondent and fill-in anchor.
Click here for a more detailed list of staff changes at the networks.
News Content
Traditionally, the three broadcast networks have not have much variation in their selection of news stories and often opened with a similar report each evening.20 In the past year, the three nightly newscasts began to distinguish themselves from one another, a sign, perhaps, that the new managers at the networks had decided that in fighting over a shrinking pool of viewers, the best way to turn the tide was to differentiate themselves.
"The three evening newscasts have become more different from one another than at any time I can remember," former NBC News executive Bill Wheatley told The New York Times.21
For example in 2011, CBS Evening News devoted more time to the two top stories than either of its main competitors: the economy (18%) and unrest in the Middle East (12%). ABC News, on the other hand, devoted 8% to the Middle East and 16% to the economy. NBC devoted less time to the economy, 11%, and 12% to the Middle East, on par with CBS.
"The gap is clearest between ABC World News and CBS Evening News," said Tom Bettag, currently a producer for Rock Center With Brian Williams on NBC, but who has also worked at CBS News, ABC News and CNN. "Under Scott Pelley, CBS has not only made a commitment to hard news but has also consciously avoided the celebrity stories that come and go without a trace. The clearest example was a noteworthy decision to allow the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, pass with a fraction of the attention that ABC paid it."22
The CBS Evening News spent a little less time on lifestyle, celebrity and sports (7%) and disasters (7%) than did ABC's World News (11% and 9%) or NBC Nightly News (9% and 11%).
The pattern was more pronounced in the three networks' morning news programs. PEJ examines the first 30 minutes of these programs, where they are most likely to provide hard news segments. CBS spent more time on the economy and the Middle East combined (26%) than either NBC (18%) or ABC (16%).
Morning and evening network news programs traditionally have different news agendas. The troubled U.S. economy was a significantly bigger story on the evening newscasts (15%) than on the morning shows (11%). There was also more attention given to the strife in the Middle East in the evening (11%) than the morning (9%). The presidential campaign, though, was a much bigger story in the morning (10%) than it was on the evening broadcasts (5%).
The amount of coverage with foreign datelines increased in 2011, compared to the year before, according to data from PEJ. Of the four major evening news programs on ABC, CBS, NBS and PBS, the number of stories that were filed from a foreign dateline in 2011 was 698, up 9% from 640 in 2010.
In 2011, network news continued to look toward digital platforms as a way to increase audience and revenue.
The networks continued to put content on their apps for iPhones, Android devices and the iPad. They also created partnerships with online news entities gearing up for the 2012 presidential election.
In 2011, ABC News partnered with Yahoo and also launched a new political website and an app for Good Morning America to use on iPhones and Android devices.
At NBC News, Vivian Schiller was hired as chief digital officer. The company also launched NBCpolitics.com and NBC Publishing to release e-books with news content. NBC also instituted a new partnership with Newsweek/The Daily Beast for the 2012 presidential campaign.
Digital Audiences
There is no easy way to comprehensively measure the total audience that accesses network news digitally. With the growth in mobile, moreover, the matter is becoming more challenging. This, of course, is part of why delivering audiences to advertisers is also a challenge.
According to at least one measurement, Nielsen's list of total unique visitors for year 2011, the relative ranking of the three network news websites remained stable. Visits increased at ABC and CBS, but decreased at MSNBC, which still claimed far more unique visitors than ABC and CBS.
According to Nielsen data, MSNBC had 29.4 million monthly unique visitors on average in 2011, compared with 12.7 million for CBS News and 18.2 million for ABC News. MSNBC's numbers benefit because it also draws traffic by default from Microsoft's MSN portal, the homepage for millions of internet users.23
The popular social media tools Twitter and Facebook provide another way to measure the networks' popularity online.
Most news programs, and a large portion of news personalities, had Twitter feeds in early 2012. Twitter provides a way for networks to both disseminate news and for consumers to communicate with news networks and personalities.
One way to gauge Twitter audience penetration is by a simple count of followers, though this is imperfect, given the abundance of ghost accounts, which can arbitrarily favor one account over another.
While all three networks showed growth in Twitter followers from 2011, they are still in the same order of popularity.
As of January 2012, CBS News (1.94 million) and ABC News (1.58 million) both had well over a million Twitter followers. NBC News' main news Twitter feed, on the other hand, was far behind with only 192,000 followers. Still, this is an increase from about half as many in 2010. NBC's online sibling, MSNBC has around 172,000 followers. CNBC had more (659,000), but combined the NBC constituents do not match the other broadcast networks.
But in terms of nightly news programs, the order of popularity on Twitter more closely reflects viewership. NBC Nightly News —the most watched evening news program—has the most followers on Twitter of the three network shows with almost 100,000 followers. ABC World News has 74,000 and CBS Evening News has 15,000.
In 2011, the flagship news program of PBS, the PBS NewsHour, saw a slight increase in audience and lost one of its major donors. Visits to the show's website grew, as did funding from foundations.
The NewsHour attracted about 1.1 million viewers nightly during the 2010-11 season, according to the program's research department. That is a slight increase from the season before.24
The NewsHour's ratings declined, however, to 0.7. In general, the NewsHour draws about a sixth of the ratings of the average commercial network news program.
Funding became more challenging for the PBS NewsHour in 2011. Its largest corporate sponsor, Chevron, ended its $2 million annual funding of the program, but ultimately the show made up for the loss.25
The NewsHour budget for July 2011-June 2012, in fact, was expected to increase by $1.4 million to $28.8 million, according to the research department of the NewsHour.
The makeup of that funding changed somewhat from the previous season. Public funding and funding from foundations increased, while corporate sponsorship, largely due to the loss of Chevron, decreased. Much of NewsHour's funding, $13.5 million for the 2011-12 season or roughly 47%, comes from public funds, a $1.6 million increase from the season before.26 That includes grants from PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which obtain revenue from donors, the federal government, interest on assets, merchandising and dues from member stations, according to NewsHour staff.
Foundations make up $9.3 million of the budget, an increase from $6.5 million in the 2010-11 season. Corporate underwriting accounts for $4.9 million of the budget, a 50% cut from $9 million the year before. The remaining $1.1 million comes from other sources, including direct gifts, in-kind support, and additional corporate and foundation support.
A new effort to raise money from wealthy patrons was supposed to start in October, but it was put off until a new president of the production company that produces the broadcast was hired in January.27 Preparations for the initiative were in final stages at the time this report was released, but no formal announcement had been made.28
Despite this modest increase in funding for NewsHour, flat revenues from member stations have negatively impacted PBS' bottom line overall, since member stations fees for programming help to fund the network. PBS' programming budget dropped by $5 million in fiscal year 2012 to $202 million, according to the trade publication Current.29
For the third year in a row, in 2011 PBS did not increase its dues and fees for stations, and with the departure of at least one large member station, it meant a decline in member revenue. PBS lost $3.8 million in dues from KCET, a PBS station in Los Angeles that became independent in January 2011 after four decades as a PBS station. The station cited PBS dues as a reason for leaving. KCET had paid almost $7 million in dues, or about 4% of PBS' total member dues in 2010.30
One project put on hold because of the budget shortfall is a 2009 proposal to upgrade PBS' online news services. "I didn't want to get partway into the project and realize we don't have the resources to do it," PBS president Paula Kerger told Current.
Coupled with that, foundations and other underwriters also cut back in the bad economy. "That pool of money has really shrunk," Jeff Bieber, vice president for news and public affairs programming at WETA, the PBS station in Washington, D.C., told Current.31
News Investment
There were many departures among NewsHour staff in 2011, including one in the anchor chair.
In June, anchor Jim Lehrer stepped down from that position. After 36 years as anchor or co-anchor, he is still involved in the program and moderates the Friday news analysis and is involved with the show's production company, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions. The broadcast is now anchored by a rotating cast of the show's senior correspondents including Jeffrey Brown, Gwen Ifill, Ray Suarez, Margaret Warner and Judy Woodruff.
In November, the NewsHour's political editor and managing editor for digital news both departed.
- David Chalian, the political editor, became the Washington bureau chief for Yahoo News.
- Maureen Hoch, the managing editor for digital news, went to the World Bank.32
- Christiana Bellantoni, formerly with CQ Roll Call, joined the NewsHour as political editor in December 2011.33
Staffing levels over all for NewsHour remained stable in 2011. A few positions that had been funded by grants are frozen and a handful of positions at the editor and producer level are open, but those positions are expected to be filled.34
There was no change in bureau counts in 2011. NewsHour has offices in San Francisco, Denver and Washington. The show's chief science correspondent, Miles O'Brien, works out of New York, but there is no bureau there.35
News Content
The PBS NewsHour differs in its agenda from other television news programs. The most striking difference is that the NewsHour offered more than a third more coverage of international news proportionally in 2011 than the rest of the media over all, including all other forms of television news (cable, morning and evening network news). In all, 40% of the time on the NewsHour was devoted to foreign events and U.S. foreign policy compared with 28% of the media sample generally: 23% on cable news, 24% on network morning news, and 24% on network evening broadcasts.
The NewsHour spent proportionally a third more time covering government than the commercial network evening newscasts (12% vs. 9%), more time on the election and politics (7% vs. 5%), much less time on crime (2% vs. 6%), less on disasters (4% vs. 9%) and on lifestyle (2% vs. 5%).
PBS continued to increase its digital presence in 2011.
It now offers full broadcasts and live streams of NewsHour on its website and through its iPhone app, and crowd-sourced its audience to provide translation services.
NewsHour's website had one million unique monthly viewers in 2011, a decrease from 1.4 million in 2010 (when a special feature on the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico drew many viewers to the site). Most of the site's content is taken directly from the NewsHour broadcast, but there are additional features. NewsHour also creates monthly podcasts, which were downloaded 14.1 million times in 2011.36
The show's Twitter feed has over 233,000 followers (when measured in late January 2012), far more than any of the major network evening news shows. The closest, NBC Nightly News has almost 100,000.
The NewsHour also has a Facebook page, which nearly doubled in number of fans in 2011 (to 49,000). Its number of YouTube subscribers more than doubled in the same time period (to almost 22,000). Its iPhone app had been downloaded over 205,000 times by November 2011.37
As part of its State of the Union coverage in 2011, the NewsHour continued its innovations. Through collaboration with the Participatory Culture Foundation, the NewsHour organized its viewers and social media followers to help translate President Obama's State of the Union address into other languages, using a free online tool. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting granted $420,000 for the project and Mozilla and the Participatory Culture Foundation provided $260,000.38 The translation tool is now a standard feature of the NewsHour's campaign coverage and was used again for the 2012 State of the Union address and Republican response.39 Using the tool, the NewsHour translated at least part of the 2012 State of the Union address into 31 languages.
The NewsHour also created a digital map online for the 2012 election. The map combines material from the Associated Press and Patchwork Nation, a project that examines different kinds of communities by using demographic, voting and cultural data, to put county-by-county returns for every primary and caucus alongside demographic, economic and social data.
Other PBS News Programming
PBS has several other news programs, including news magazines Frontline and Need to Know. And Bill Moyers started a new program.
The new program, Moyers & Company, hosted by PBS veteran Bill Moyers, debuted in January 2012. Moyers said he had retired in April 2010 when Bill Moyers Journal ended its long run. The weekly series Bill Moyers Journal aired on PBS on and off from 1972 to 2010, and Now With Bill Moyers aired from 2002 to 2004.40
The new show is not being distributed by PBS, but by American Public Television, although it will still air on many PBS member stations and on video.pbs.org. Moyers told The New York Times that he was unsure why PBS declined the show for its main schedule. Some public television executives told the newspaper that they believed PBS did not want to realign itself with Moyers, a longtime target of conservatives, in efforts to keep federal funding.
Moyers & Company has about 30 employees, a little more than half of the staff of Bill Moyers Journal. The Carnegie Corporation gave Moyers a lead gift of $2 million for the new program.41
Need to Know, PBS' Friday news magazine, went through significant changes in 2011. Alison Stewart, the show's anchor, left in September. She had been anchoring the show alone since original co-anchor Jon Meacham became a contributing editor of the program in April.
That same month, the show was cut down from one hour to a half-hour. Need to Know was condensed for both financial and time slot reasons, Stephen Segaller, the vice president of programming at WNET in New York City, where the program originates, told The New York Times.42
To replace Stewart, the show turned to a rotating group of well-known hosts, including Scott Simon, the host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday; Maria Hinojosa, the former Now on PBS correspondent; Ray Suarez, a senior correspondent at the NewsHour; and Jeff Greenfield, who still works for CBS News as well.43
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- Potter, Deborah. "A Welcome Change." American Journalism Review. Aug. 4, 2011. ↩
- These are figures just for the month of November. PEJ's historical Nielsen data are only for the month of November. ↩
- In 2011, these shows were The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, AC360 on CNN and Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Combined their audience was 4.7 million people. The three most popular prime-time news programs over all are all on Fox News. ↩
- Schuker, Lauren A. E. and Vascellaro, Jessica E. "NBC's 'Today' Shows Rare Weakness." The Wall Street Journal. Oct. 6, 2011. ↩
- Potter, Deborah. "A Welcome Change." American Journalism Review. Aug. 4, 2011. ↩
- Marabito, Andrea. " 'Nightline' Tops Broadcast Season For First Time." Broadcasting & Cable. June 3, 2011. ↩
- This number is based on analyst estimates. PEJ estimates separate figures for each network news division. ↩
- Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Communications Industry Forecast: 2011-2015. ↩
- Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Communications Industry Forecast: 2011-2015. ↩
- Walt Disney Company. Form 10-K. ↩
- Kantar Media Data from Schuker, Lauren A. E., and Vascellaro Jessica E. "NBC's 'Today' Shows Rare Weakness." Wall Street Journal. Oct. 6, 2011. ↩
- Kantar Media Data from Schuker, Lauren A. E., and Vascellaro Jessica E. "NBC's 'Today' Shows Rare Weakness." Wall Street Journal. Oct. 6, 2011. ↩
- Elliott, Stuart. "CBS on Top, Again, as Upfront Market Ends." The New York Times. June 9, 2011. ↩
- Stelter, Brian. "CBS Corp. Profits Increase, but Revenue Comes Up Short." The New York Times. Feb. 15, 2012. ↩
- CBS SEC Filing. CBS Corporation Reports Strong Fourth Quarter. ↩
- SNL Kagan. "Economics of Basic Cable Networks: 2011 Edition." ↩
- Comcast press release. "Comcast Reports 4th Quarter and Year End 2011 Results." Feb. 15, 2012. ↩
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- Ariens, Chris. "The Common Thread of 'Person to Person' and 'Rock Center.'" TV Newser. Feb. 9, 2012. ↩
- Based on PEJ coding of network news programming. For more, visit The Year in the News. ↩
- Stelter, Brian. "Big Three Newscasts Are Changing the State of Play." The New York Times. Jan 8, 2012. ↩
- Bettag, Tom. Interview with PEJ. Feb. 21, 2012. Bettag is also a reader for this chapter. ↩
- MSNBC.com is the default homepage on most Microsoft-based PC browsers and has long been one of the top news destinations on the internet. ↩
- The average audience for the 2009-10 season was 1,058,000 viewers. For the 2010-11 season it was 1,067,000. ↩
- Jensen, Elizabeth. " 'NewsHour' Changes Raise Questions at PBS." The New York Times. Nov. 6, 2011. ↩
- PBS NewsHour Marketing and Communications staff. Jan. 30, 2012. ↩
- Simon Marks, the president of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, left in September. Boisfeuillet Jones Jr., the former publisher of the Washington Post and vice chairman of the Washington Post Company, replaced him. Source: Jensen, Elizabeth. " 'NewsHour' Changes Raise Questions at PBS." The New York Times. Nov. 6, 2011. ↩
- Raine, Clay. Marking research and data assistant, MacNeil Lehrer Productions. Email to PEJ. Feb. 22, 2012. ↩
- Sefton, Dru. "Making the Most of What PBS Can Do."Current. May 16, 2011. ↩
- Sefton, Dru. "KCET's Split From PBS Leaves Uncertainty for Both." Current. Oct. 18, 2010. ↩
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- Ariens, Chris. "Christina Bellantoni Joins PBS NewsHour." TV Newser. Dec. 20, 2011. ↩
- Raine, Clay. Marking research and data assistant, MacNeil Lehrer Productions. Email to PEJ. Jan. 31, 2012. ↩
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- NewsHour Research Department. ↩
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- Jensen, Elizabeth. "PBS's 'Need to Know' Turns to Roster of Guest Hosts." The New York Times. Sept. 11, 2011. ↩


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Cape Town - Cape Town Professor Cyril Karabus's legal team has called on event organisers across the globe to reconsider hosting events in Abu Dhabi in a move to put pressure on the United Arab Emirates authorities.
Karabus's lawyer Michael Bagraim said the legal team had asked several organisations responsible for hosting events such as sports tournaments and oil and gas seminars in Abu Dhabi to boycott the country.
"We are trying a different approach that will apply pressure internally. We are asking businesses and organisations to consider boycotting the country as they (Abu Dhabi) are unfairly holding Karabus," he said.
Karabus has yet to report to the judge whether or not his legal team has located missing original medical records.
Karabus, 77, has been detained in Abu Dhabi since August last year over a manslaughter conviction in 2003.
He was arrested while in transit in Dubai when returning to South Africa from Toronto.
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Australia's chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch believes that it was a 'coup' to entice former England bowling coach Troy Cooley back to Australia in the lead-up to the Ashes series starting in November.
Cooley played a significant part in England's 2-1 defeat of Australia last year by imparting his extensive knowledge of the art of fast-bowling onto Steve Harmison, Andrew Flintoff, Simon Jones and Matthew Hoggard - the latter trio in particular having an enormous impact in the series with their reverse-swing.
The Tasmanian-born Cooley will begin his position with Cricket Australia at the Centre of Excellence in Brisbane where young bowlers will have the chance to improve their games under his tutelage.
But it will be his work with Australian international bowlers as the Ashes draws nearer that may prove to be the difference between the sides as Australia seeks to regain the famous urn.
"It was a real coup to get Troy back here," Hilditch told the Sydney Morning Herald.
"It was quite clear from last year's Ashes just how good a job he did with England's quicks.
"They were awesome. We are very happy with our batch of quicks coming through, and it's exciting to think the kind of impact he could have with them."
Cooley was England's fast bowling coach since May 2003 before his arrival back in Australia, which comes a month after his England and Wales Cricket Board contract expired.


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My soul lives in my body's house,
And you have both the house and her—
But sometimes she is less your own
Than a wild, gay adventurer;
A restless and an eager wraith,
How can I tell what she will do—
Oh, I am sure of my body's faith,
But what if my soul broke faith with you?
Poet: Sara Teasdale
Poem: Doubt
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One of my favorite events of the year is the Bill Gates Keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). That's typically where he shows off gadgets that many of us know are like 20+ years away, but it's cool to watch nonetheless. One such example is the technologically advanced bedroom that Gates demonstrated at CES 2007, which is pictured above.
Bill Gates' CES 2008 Keynote will take place on Sunday, January 6th at 6:30PM Pacific Time. Like always Microsoft streams the event over the Internet so that those of us unable to attend are still able to watch it live. You need to have Windows Media Player to watch it, and here are the streams sorted with the best quality (a.k.a. most bandwidth intensive) first:
Since we're still a few days away you can take some time to watch the Bill Gates CES Keynote from last year, which also requires Windows Media Player. The really cool stuff doesn't come until the end, so skip forward about an hour if you want to jump right in on the gadgets you'll never be able to afford. :)
What do you think we'll see at the keynote this year? I'm guessing there will definitely be some mention of Vista SP1, Xbox 360, new Zunes, and Windows Home Server. We'll recap what happened first thing Monday morning.
Thanks for the tip Josh!


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Indoor Rock Climbing – Try It!
One of my recently discovered activities that I'm falling in love with is indoor rock climbing (though I suppose I may try outdoor rock climbing and bouldering one day, too).
In a weird way, it's the ultimate thinking person's type of sport that is physically demanding, but also mentally challenging as well. Climbers like to talk in terminology like "problems", "projects", and "solutions" and it's entirely accurate and applicable way to describe what climbing is all about. If you walk into a bouldering area in a gym, you will see climbers just sitting around, planning routes, thinking about how to position their bodies to make the right move and attacking routes over and over again. Difficult routes demand that you plan and think about how you can make your way up a vertical face while expending the least amount of energy.
It's odd, but I also think that it's a very "romantic" (or "bromantic"?) activity because you'll have the most fun climbing with someone else. There is a lot of communication and trust involved when one person is controlling the safety and well-being of another person suspended 40 feet in the air. For that same reason, it's a great team building activity for companies because to climb, you need to be able to work together, communicate, and have trust in your partners.
To get started, you can look up Google Maps and find some nearby rock climbing gyms and just call and take a class. I took my first class at Rockreation in Costa Mesa, CA where you had to schedule ahead and the classes are far more formalized, but there are also places like Rockville back home in NJ, where the classes are much more informal and you can just show up and take a short intro class.
Most intro classes will teach you the basic elements of indoor climbing:
- Using harnesses and shoes
- Basic double-figure-8 knot tying
- Belaying
- Basic safety including verbal commands and communications.
But in looking through some videos, I've found that there is LOT more to learn and I've developed an even deeper appreciation for it. Take a look for yourself:
Five Fundamentals of Indoor Rock Climbing
How to Grip Indoor Climbing Holds
Footwork for Climbing
Five Advanced Bouldering Techniques
What I hope that you can get from this is that there is a real art to this that is beautiful to watch in action. In that last video, the Bat Hang at 1:45 is a thing of beauty. Seasoned climbers make it look easy, but it really takes a lot of practice, experience, and creativity to move around like Cliff Simanski does in the video.
I've also learned that I've been wrecking my forearms because I've basically been muscling my way up the walls with my upper body strength alone. A strong grip and upper body are certainly beneficial for climbing, but you need far more than that to advance in the sport.
In a sense, rock climbing has a lot in common with dance or gymnastics: it demands creative body movement, flexibility, balance, body awareness, and spatial awareness (maybe even more so because your life is on the line in some cases).
It's a great activity for kids of all ages (Charlotte is 3.5 years old) to enjoy.
There are few technologies that I truly hate and InfoPath is right up there. The problem isn't necessarily InfoPath itself (okay, yes, I do hate it and it sucks hard), but the misconceptions from many former and current customers and business users about the utility and suitability of InfoPath cause it to be deployed in a variety of situations where it has no business being in a web-based enterprise architecture.
It's a technology that has been oversold and over-promised but always under-delivers and "enterprise architects" love the stuffin's out of it for some reason without a real grasp on why it's such a lame, terrible technology.
Now it seems that it's reached the end of the line:
In an effort to streamline our investments and deliver a more integrated Office forms user experience, we're retiring InfoPath and investing in new forms technology across SharePoint, Access, and Word. This means that InfoPath 2013 is the last release of the desktop client, and InfoPath Forms Services in SharePoint Server 2013 is the last release of InfoPath Forms Services.
Microsoft makes many great things like .NET and Visual Studio and some total duds like InfoPath (a solution looking for a problem).
This is my favorite part of the blog post:
Industry trends and feedback from our customers and partners make it clear that today's businesses demand an intelligent, integrated forms experience that spans devices. We are looking to make investments that allow you to easily design, deploy, and use intelligent, integrated forms across Office clients, servers, and services—forms that everyone can use on their PC, tablet, or phone.
Hey Microsoft, here's a tip for you: HTML! What took you so long? I mean, holy smokes, why did you even waste the money to conceive of InfoPath Forms Services to convert InfoPath forms into HTML in the first place? Why did you even bother with forcing developers to build forms in some terrible designer with a terrible programming experience only to convert those forms right back into HTML so that people could fill it out?
Any idiot could have seen the utter uselessness and un-ceremonial end of InfoPath years ago.
Setting Batch Variables Dynamically
One of the challenges of managing builds and deployments of source on multiple developer machines is that it can be complicated to contain and manage different variations in developer environments.
For example, often times, it is useful to know the server name or the connection string information so that local settings don't make it into source control.
How I've often tackled this is to add a batch file that every developer executes when getting the source for the first time. This batch file asks for various settings and then saves the results to a text file which is then read back when executing other batch files.
Here is an example of such a batch file:
@ECHO OFF ECHO ================================================================ ECHO Creates the developer specific local configuration for builds ECHO that will allow developers to use local settings for specifc ECHO aspects of the deployment. ECHO ================================================================ :SPURL SET SPURL= SET /P SPURL=Enter SharePoint site URL (ex. http://mymachine:2345/): %=% IF "%SPURL%"=="" GOTO SPURL ECHO ---------------------------------------------------------------- :SQLCONN SET SQLCONN= ECHO Enter SQL connection string to the IC membership database ECHO (ex. Server=VM1;Database=IPDB;User ID=membershipUser;Password=P@ssw0rd;Application Name=HeCoreServices): SET /P SQLCONN= IF "%SQLCONN%"=="" GOTO SQLCONN ECHO ---------------------------------------------------------------- ECHO SPURL=%SPURL% > build-configuration.txt ECHO SQLCONN=%SQLCONN% >> build-configuration.txt ECHO Completed; created file build-configuration.txt PAUSE
This batch file will prompt the developer for two settings: the URL of a site and the connection string that the developer is using locally (which can vary by the database name, login, etc.). The contents get written to a file called build-configuration.txt that looks like this:
SPURL=http://mymachine:2345 SQLCONN=Server=VM1;Database=IPDB;User ID=membershipUser;Password=P@ssw0rd;Application Name=HeCoreServices
This file is excluded from source control and developers can, of course, manually edit this file as well to create local settings.
Now when I'm ready to use these settings in another batch file, I can invoke it like so:
@ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION FOR /F "tokens=*" %%n IN (build-configuration.txt) DO ( ECHO %%n SET %%n ) ECHO %SPURL% ECHO %SQLCONN% PAUSE
There are other ways to do this as well, but the downside to most approaches is that you have to know how many parameters you have or use less meaningful names. This approach will let you set variables to your heart's content and read them in dynamically at execution.
An Architecture for High-Throughput Concurrent Web Request Processing
I've been working with ZeroMQ lately and I think I've fallen in love.
It's rare that a technology or framework just jumps out at you, but here is one that will get your head spinning on the different ways that it can make your architecture more scalable, more powerful, and all the while offering a frictionless way of achieving this.
I've been building distributed, multi-threaded applications since college, and ZeroMQ has changed everything for me.
It initially started with a need to build a distributed event processing engine. I had wanted to try implementing it in WCF using peer-to-peer and/or MSMQ endpoints, but the thought of the complexity of managing that stack along with the configuration and setup seemed like it would be at least fruitful to look into a few other alternatives.
RabbitMQ and ZeroMQ were the clear front-runners for me. I really liked the richness of documentation and examples with RabbitMQ and if you look at some statistics, it has a much greater rate of mentions on Stack so we can assume that it has a higher rate of adoption. But at the core of it, I think that there really is no comparison between these two except for the fact that they both have "MQ" in their names.
It's true that one could build RabbitMQ like functionality on top of ZeroMQ, but to a degree, I think that would be defeating the purpose. The beauty of ZeroMQ is that it's so lightweight and so fast that it's really hard to believe; there's just one reference to add to your project. No central server to configure. No single point of failure. No configuration files. No need to think about failovers and clustering. Nothing. Just plug and go. But there is a cost to this: a huge tradeoff in some of the higher level features that -- if you want -- you have to build yourself.
If you understand your use cases and you understand the limitations of ZeroMQ and where it's best used, you can find some amazing ways to leverage it to make your applications more scalable.
One such use case I've been thinking about is using it to build a highly scalable web-request processing engine which would allow scaling by adding lots of cheap, heterogeneous nodes. You see, with ASP.NET, unless you explicitly build a concurrency-oriented application, your web server processing is single-threaded per request and you can only ever generate output HTML at the sum of the costs of generating each sub part of your view. To get around this, we could consider a processing engine that would be able to parse controls and send the processing off -- in parallel -- to multiple processors and then reassemble the output HTML before feeding it back to the client. In this scenario, the cost of rendering the page is the overhead of the request plus the cost of the most expensive part of the view generation.
The following diagram conceptualizes this in ZeroMQ:
Even if an ASP.NET application is architected and programmed for concurrency from the get-go, you are limited by the constraints of the hardware (# of concurrent threads). Of course, you can add more servers and put a load balancer in front of them, but this can be an expensive proposition. Perhaps a better architecture would be to design a system that allows adding cheap, heterogeneous server instances that do nothing but process parts of a view.
In such an architecture, it would be possible to scale the system at any level by simply adding more nodes -- at any level. They could be entirely heterogeneous; no need for IIS, in fact, the servers don't even have to be Windows servers. The tradeoff is that you have to manage the session information yourself and push the relevant information down through the pipeline or at least make it accessible via a high speed interface (maybe like a Redis or Memcached?).
But the net gain is that it would allow for concurrent processing of a single web request and build an infrastructure for handling web requests that is easily scaled with cheap, simple nodes.
The Nuclear Arms Race and Deep Space Exploration
Wired has a fascinating article which focuses on the world's dwindling supply of plutonium-238, a veritable super fuel in the field of deep space exploration:
In 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft left Earth on a four-year mission to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Thirty-six years later, the car-size probe is still exploring, still sending its findings home. It has now put more than 19 billion kilometers between itself and the sun. Last week NASA announced that Voyager 1 had become the first man-made object to reach interstellar space.
None of this would be possible without the spacecraft's three batteries filled with plutonium-238. In fact, Most of what humanity knows about the outer planets came back to Earth on plutonium power. Cassini's ongoing exploration of Saturn, Galileo's trip to Jupiter, Curiosity's exploration of the surface of Mars, and the 2015 flyby of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft are all fueled by the stuff.
But there's a problem: We've almost run out.
Most of the US supply of plutonium-238 was a byproduct of producing bomb-grade nuclear material. Nowadays, the material is in incredibly short supply with demand, unyielding.
Of course, we have the capability to make more, except for the reality that pitiful funding that is required has been so difficult to obtain:
Since 1994, scientists have pleaded with lawmakers for the money to restart production. The DOE believes a relatively modest $10 to 20 million in funding each year through 2020 could yield an operation capable of making between 3.3 and 11 pounds of plutonium-238 annually — plenty to keep a steady stream of spacecraft in business.
It took countless scientists and their lobbyists more than 15 years just to get lawmakers' attention. Congressional committees squabbled over if and how to spend $20 million of taxpayers' money — it took them three years to make up their minds
Any hiccups in funding for plutonium-238 production could put planetary science into a tailspin and delay, strip down, or smother nuclear-powered missions.
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The Real Reason the Republicans Lost
While there has been a lot of chirping about the shifting racial makeup of Americans, Republicans already have a very big problem that crushes any discussion of the Latino or minority vote.
The Latino-American vote issue is going to start to pop up, but states like Texas are in no danger of turning Democratic for at least 4-5 more cycles. On the other hand, Republicans are losing the battle for women today by a big margin.
The real wakeup call should be Republican messaging and policies when it comes to the female vote -- it's the single largest block of voters by population and participation and it broke for Democrats by 11 points.
Obama's Address to the UN Assembly
A great speech; too much to quote:
It is time to marginalize those who, even when not directly resorting to violence, use hatred of America or the West or Israel as the central organizing principle of politics, for that only gives cover and sometimes makes an excuse for those who do resort to violence. That brand of politics, one that pits East against West and South against North, Muslims against Christians and Hindu and Jews, can't deliver on the promise of freedom.
To the youth, it offers only false hope. Burning an American flag does nothing to provide a child an education. Smashing apart a restaurant does not fill an empty stomach. Attacking an embassy won't create a single job. That brand of politics only makes it harder to achieve what we must do together, educating our children and creating the opportunities that they deserve, protecting human rights and extending democracy's promise.
...when you strip all away, people everywhere long for the freedom to determine their destiny; the dignity that comes with work; the comfort that comes with faith; and the justice that exists when governments serve their people and not the other way around.
The United States of America will always stand up for these aspirations for our own people and for people all across the world. That was our founding purpose. That is what our history shows. That is what Chris Stevens worked for throughout his life.
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Book Review: 17 Equations That Changed the World
What could be more boring than mathematical equations? The majority of folks would be hard pressed to find something to answer that hypothetical query. Myself included 🙂 I'll be honest, I'm a math minor and I picked up this book on a whim in a bookstore thinking to myself "Now why would anyone want to write or buy a book on 17 equations?" I flipped through it and immediately knew that I had to consume the rest of this book.
What Stewart is able to do is to take these 17 equations that manifest in everything we do, everything we observe, everything bit of space around us and bring life to them. He presents the opening of each chapter with a concise summary of these equations that helps immensely in revealing the underlying nature of the equations and then goes into the history of the creation (discovery?) of each of these equations and it's been an eye-opening read.
As an example, having majored in computer science, I worked constantly with logarithms and natural logs (there's lumber joke here somewhere) but never once understood the nature of logarithms. How did they come about? Why do they exist? What problem do they address? Just what in the heck is a logarithm? I knew them only in the abstract -- as operations that yielded a result; I knew them as a general pattern but not the nature of the logarithm. The second chapter simply blew me away with the clarity and simplicity with which Stewart was able to pull back the covers on what logarithms actually mean. No one in my years of formal education had bothered to explain it in the same way that Stewart does in this book.
While I cannot say that this book is for everyone, I will say that I find it is surprisingly approachable for most folks who are scientifically or mathematically inclined. Certainly, there are many equations and plenty of mathematics (and it gets especially complex (pun intended 🙂 in the later chapters. However, I think this book is still immensely readable and approachable, even for those who have never ventured deep into the vast field of mathematics or have long moved past their days of calculus, linear algebra, and so on. I, for one, will make sure that my daughter reads the chapter on logarithms as it starts to seep into her curriculum one day to make sure she understands the "why" and so that she has an appreciation for all of the history and magic behind that little "log n" button on her calculator.
This book is incredibly well written, well presented such that it is approachable for a large audience, an entertaining read, and highly recommended. If you've read this review to this point, you should probably just go ahead and by this book!
The ESAM 5600 Arrives!
Ever since my trip out to Switzerland, I've been jonesing for an espresso machine. After a lot of research, checking out lots of youtube videos, almost pulling the trigger various times, I ended up purchasing the DeLonghi ESAM5600 SL from JL Hufford. I briefly considered Nespresso machines, but without recycling centers nearby, it seemed like very wasteful and not to mention the cost of the pods would be expensive over the lifetime of the machine. Besides: I like to be able to choose my own beans.
We'll see how this DeLonghi holds up over time. I expect to get a lot of use out of it 😀


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Chairman Goodlatte: In a free market economy like ours, companies are generally free to organize themselves and their assets as they see fit--including by merger. There is nothing wrong per se with mergers, even if they form large companies.
The preservation of free and fair competition, however, is critical to a free market. Competition spurs innovation and ensures that the market allocates resources efficiently. It benefits consumers and fosters economic growth. Because a free market cannot flourish without competition, a merger that decreases competition can undermine a free market.
Thus, antitrust laws set important limits on companies' freedom to merge with one another. Specifically, Section 7 of the Clayton Act prohibits mergers that "substantially lessen competition" or "tend to create a monopoly." This is meant to strike a balance between companies' freedom to organize their affairs while preserving the competition that is essential to a healthy free market.
Recently, two of the remaining four "legacy carriers" in the U.S. airline industry -- American Airlines (which has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy since late 2011) and US Airways -- announced plans to merge. The resulting entity would be called American Airlines but would be led by US Air's chief executive officer.
Pursuant to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, the Department of Justice must review this proposed merger to determine if it is anticompetitive. This is a highly technical inquiry, and the Department should be guided purely by the facts and the law -- not by politics or ideology.
The basic question the Department should seek to answer is how this merger's impacts on competition would affect consumer welfare. Congress has an oversight responsibility to ensure that the Department of Justice conducts its merger reviews in a thorough, fair and reasonably prompt fashion.
The Department should ask whether the merger would enable American to raise ticket prices, or raise other ancillary fees or reduce services, on particular routes, especially routes currently served by both airlines. It should ask whether there is sufficient competition on these routes, such as from low-cost carriers, to keep a post-merger American Airlines in competitive check. It also should ask whether, post-merger, a new carrier could move into a route served by American and begin to compete.
To put it mildly, the airline industry has changed a great deal since it was deregulated in 1978. New airlines with new business models have sprung up to serve consumers. Other airlines have gone bankrupt. Some of the latter have returned from bankruptcy, others have merged, and others have failed altogether. In the last five years, the House Judiciary Committee has held hearings on two major airline mergers: Delta-Northwest in 2008 and United-Continental in 2010.
Five major airlines -- United, Delta, American, US Air and Southwest -- now control an estimated 80% of the domestic market. If this merger goes through, that number will decline to four. Should this be the "last merger" in the airline industry--so far and no farther? Would allowing this merger finally strike the right balance between competition and the cyclical bankruptcies that have occurred in the industry recently?
A major concern anytime there is fluctuation in the airline industry is how smaller airports, which depend heavily on routes to and from larger hubs, would be affected. For travelers leaving from my district, the airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a major hub destination, and US Air has invested heavily in Charlotte. Would American maintain or even expand this and other hubs, post-merger?
It is by no means clear that this merger would have all or any of the negative effects that an airline merger can produce. American and US Air maintain that their routes are mostly complimentary, not overlapping, and that the merger will enhance competition by giving the current fourth- and fifth-largest airlines a stronger position from which to compete with the other three.
Congress has no formal role in the Department of Justice's merger review process. Congressional hearings, however, provide important public venues to ask, debate and identify possible answers to these questions, which are of great importance. Rather than rushing to judgment, my hope is that everyone involved will take care to evaluate the evidence and do what is best for competition and consumers.
I look forward to the testimony of the witnesses, the debate among the members of the Subcommittee, and, in the end, a wise decision by the Department of Justice that ensures a competitive future for the airline industry and protects the welfare of American travelers.


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In many cities, touring is best done afoot — there's no waiting for public transportation and you're able to stop whenever you want. Walking is also one of the best ways to see a city, something marketers and tour companies have long considered in their efforts to present a locale in a unique and attractive way. Still, not all tours are as simple as being led to sights: Some have been remixed, slightly.
With that said, here are six of the wackiest walking tours around the world.
1. Rolling with the Paparazzi
There's a new paparazzo in town, and it just might be me — a tourist. This Los Angeles tour teams visitors with real-life paparazzi for three-hour blocks of time in which they run, walk, and "hunt" all over the city to see their favorite celebrities. The tour is offered daily, beginning at 8 a.m. until 10 p.m., and each day is different, as the tour is unscripted and celebrity encounters are not arranged.


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JEFFREY BROWN: We get two views now. Cliff Kupchan is Middle East director at the Eurasia Group. And Reuel Gerecht is a senior fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies:
Welcome to both of you.
Cliff Kupchan, let me start with you.
While we're waiting for this possible interim, what is called an interim agreement, the question is whether it's a good — it would be a good first step.
CLIFF KUPCHAN, Eurasia Group: It would be a very good first step.
The key goal for the U.S. and the West is to make it harder for Iran to dash to a nuclear weapon. What We're trying to do is to limit their enrichment capability, their ability to enrich uranium, lengthen the amount of time it would take them to dash to a bomb, more verification, take steps that would make it really hard the worst for occur. And I think there's a good chance of that.
JEFFREY BROWN: Reuel Gerecht, you're more skeptical.
REUEL MARC GERECHT, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies: Yes.
I didn't — I mean, we have to depend on the press reports and what officials here have suggested, but I don't think they're doing anything to actually dismantle the program. I mean, that's the real objective.
And I'm highly skeptical. If they don't go after such issues as the production of centrifuges, where centrifuges are manufactured, converting the Arak plutonium facility, the heavy water facility, to a light water facility, to being honest about past weaponization — weaponization efforts, and, also very importantly, getting a grip on their — how they could abuse the system, i think the odds of this turning out well are very poor.
JEFFREY BROWN: So you — those are the kind of things you think the U.S. should be demanding, and short of that, no deal is better?
REUEL MARC GERECHT: Well, I think you should be very, very clear that the — right now the United States is in a very strong — relatively very strong position.
If you start dismantling sanctions, our position is going to get weaker and weaker and weaker.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right, what about that?
CLIFF KUPCHAN: I think any deal with an opponent is going to be an ugly deal. We should not expect it to be…
JEFFREY BROWN: You mean by definition?
CLIFF KUPCHAN: By definition. You don't get something that you're really thrilled about when you're dealing with more or less an enemy.
And I think letting the good be the enemy of the perfect is a big, big, big danger here. Now, I agree with Mr. Gerecht that the things he mentions are very important part of any deal we're going to come to, but when you get to monitoring centrifuge production capability or uranium milling capability, the ability to make raw uranium, that's the kind of thing that we're only going to be able to get to in a final status agreement.
And I think trying to front-load that really risks detonating what could be a very productive initial interim agreement.
JEFFREY BROWN: And what — let me just follow up on the other thing he said, which is that — the notion that if you make concessions now, even small ones, they're harder to take back later on.
CLIFF KUPCHAN: It depends what the concessions are.
What the administration is planning on doing is unfreezing Iranian assets, not sanctioning the automotive sector, and providing small relief on petrochemical exports and the export of precious metals. Those to me do not touch the underlying architecture of sanctions, which depend on oil sanctions which depend on financial sanctions. We're not going to touch those.
So, to me, we're on the verge of what would be a — we're hopefully on the verge of what would be a very good deal for the United States.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right. Mr. Gerecht.
REUEL MARC GERECHT: Well, I would say, first and foremost, if you do not even have the means up front of verifying the — where the Iranians are doing their nuclear research, if you don't have an additional protocol at the very beginning, you are depending upon the Iranians to be honest.
And they have lied and cheated ever since 2002, when we discovered the Natanz facility. And I would say again on the sanctions, if you give them any type of cash benefit, what you're essentially doing is giving them hard currency that they could turn back around and invest in the nuclear program, they could invest in supporting Bashar al-Assad in Syria, that they could invest in supporting the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
To give them any kind of hard currency I think is a serious mistake.
JEFFREY BROWN: What is the — your — how do you see the position of the Iranians now? Because part of this, of course, is, how much can you trust what they say?
CLIFF KUPCHAN: I don't think this is about trust. Nobody's going to trust Iran. It is a fact that they…
JEFFREY BROWN: So the questions he was raising about earlier things, you just — you don't worry about right now?
CLIFF KUPCHAN: This agreement can't be based on trust. It would be based on verification.
One of the first things that the United States, the P5-plus-one is going to be looking for is an increased and very stringent inspection regime. But I do not think that looking for everything up front is going to work. I don't think we're going to be able to, again, get them to let us into their — their — their physics lab, their research institutes up front. I think it would be a big mistake to go for that.
REUEL MARC GERECHT: Well, essentially, what you're saying is that you're allowing them to determine the structure of these negotiations here.
If they say no, you stop. Well, the United States shouldn't say no. It should say, listen, we intend to ensure the dismantling of this program. All options are on the table. Either you agree to these terms or in fact all options are there. We will increase sanctions, and we will also consider a preemptive military strike.
You have to be willing to say to the Iranians that this position is unacceptable. You have been to be able and willing to say that you must sign the additional protocol. We know that they have done weaponization research in the past. We're 99.9 percent sure of it. We need to be able to get into the facilities where we think that happened. We need to be able to talk to your scientists who undertook that research.
JEFFREY BROWN: Well, where do you — if you start — if you think of this as an interim agreement, where does it go from there? How do you get — what is the goal and how do you get there?
CLIFF KUPCHAN: It goes towards in the end state agreement sharply constraining, sharply constraining Iran's nuclear program and being very, very sure that they can't break out, that they can't get a nuclear weapon.
But, look, we are in a very strong position right now. Iran is economically very, very weak. Their economy contracted by 5 percent to 6 percent last year. So I think we should take a good deal. We should take what we can get. We shouldn't go for everything because we're not going to get it.
These guys, when you really press them, they get their backs up against the wall and they can walk away. We shouldn't risk at this critical juncture, when we have them in a very tight space, make the mistake of going for everything and losing everything. That would be a huge mistake.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right, you get a last word.
REUEL MARC GERECHT: I just think it would have to — it has to pass the pinch test.
And I don't think, if the press reports are true, that we have under discussion something that really passes, that we're not really setting back the program much at all, that they're maintaining the nuclear weapons infrastructure, and we're really not pushing them when we do have the stronger hand. If you have the stronger economic hand, use it.
JEFFREY BROWN: Does your gut tell you that they are going to reach some kind of agreement this weekend?
REUEL MARC GERECHT: I think likely so, because I think the president, most importantly, wants to avoid a binary choice between surrendering and having to engage in a preemptive military strike.
JEFFREY BROWN: And you're agreeing? You think something is going to happen?
CLIFF KUPCHAN: I think something is going to happen this weekend. I think both sides want it, which means it will probably get done.
JEFFREY BROWN: Cliff Kupchan, Reuel Gerecht, thank you both very much.
CLIFF KUPCHAN: Thank you.
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Hobby Lobby has signed a lease to open its first Gainesville store in the spot currently occupied by Stein Mart at 6111 Newberry Road next to Books-A-Million. The store will open sometime next year. Hobby Lobby is an arts and crafts retailer with 67,000 products in 13 departments. Stein Mart plans to close Aug. 27. A spokeswoman said the store was not meeting expectations.
RTI grows
Alachua-based RTI Biologics is in the process of acquiring Pioneer Surgical Technology of Marquette, Mich., in a deal worth $130 million. With the purchase, RTI will add synthetic and metal surgical implants to its portfolio of implants manufactured from human donated tissue and animal tissue, and expand its worldwide distribution network. RTI also will add 300 employees for a total of about 1,100. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of the year. The combined company will have a new name to be announced later.
Thin is in
NanoPhotonica, a company with offices in Orlando and at the University of Florida Innovation Hub, was the winner of the fourth annual Cade Museum Prize and the $50,000 cash prize courtesy of the Community Foundation of North Central Florida. With technology licensed from materials science research at UF, the company makes very thin displays from nanomaterials that convert electricity to light, allowing electronic device manufacturers to make display screens that are brighter and less expensive to produce. NanoPhotonica is already working with four of the five largest display screen manufacturers in the world.
Changes on the airwaves
Under a new owner, WBXY The Star 99.5 FM talk radio changed format to Party 99.5 electronic dance music, while WYGC 105 The Game at 104.9 FM changed from sports and talk to a country music simulcast of Ocala-based WTRS and rebranded My Country. JVC Media of Long Island, N.Y., bought five FM stations in the Gainesville/Ocala market from Asterisk Communications of Fort Lauderdale. WSKY 97.3 The Sky picked up three shows dropped by WBXY — the Sean Hannity Show, the Laura Ingraham Show and Savage Nation with Michael Savage.
New face at ACT
The Alachua Conservation Trust named Tom Kay as its new executive director, replacing Robert "Hutch" Hutchinson, who was elected to the Alachua County Commission. Kay came to the ACT after working as a lawyer in civil, criminal and real estate law at Jung and Sisco, P.A., in Tampa. He has worked as staff attorney for a not-for-profit healthcare organization and a public housing authority, and volunteered on local and national political campaigns, according to a news release. He and his wife, Christine, live on a farm in McIntosh.
Helping business grow
The Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce issued a report with 27 recommendations for how Gainesville city government can better help small-business growth. The suggestions came out of a May 13 forum called by then Mayor-elect Ed Braddy. The ideas include: lowering assessment fees and utility costs, eliminating complicated and unnecessary regulations, standardizing policies for more consistent enforcement, and reforming zoning to replicate the fast-track process created for Innovation Square. Chamber President and CEO Tim Giuliani said in a news release that the Chamber would be working with the city to try to implement the recommendations. The full report is available at gainesvillechamber.com.
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Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Levels and Goals
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Carrying forward an idea to categorize advanced targeted attackers proposed by Eric Ahlm here at Gartner, I am proposing the following profiles and "levels" of attacker. Feel free to comment or propose other ways to portray this information. If you are interested in defending against or detecting advanced targeted attacks, see my research titled "Best Practices for Mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats".
Level 1
Attacker Profile: Organized Crime
Motivation: In it for the easy money targets
Level 2
Attacker Profile: Industrial Espionage
Motivation: They want your intellectual property, trade secrets, customer data, business strategies etc.
Level 3
Attacker Profile: Activist or terrorist groups
Motivation: They want to make a statement, cause harm
Level 4
Attacker Profile: Nation States
Motivation: Economic, Political or Militarily
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Motivation: Theft, disgruntled…….mischief etc
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At a press conference on Wednesday, Bengals Head Coach Marvin Lewis used an unexpected adjective to describe what team leaders need to do to motivate their teammates.
Lewis said Quarterback Andy Dalton and Middle Linebacker Rey Maualuga were nice guys but sometimes that's not enough.
According to Lewis, sometimes you've gotta be a bit of a d**k.
"We're looking for our quarterback and our middle linebacker to take hold of our football team. And I think that's important for us and I think both guys are such good people that you've got to be a little bit of a d**k."
Lewis said the coaching staff talked to Dalton during the bye week and encouraged him to be more of a leader.
"Andy has a great deal of confidence, self confidence, internal confidence, confidence in the guys around him and at some point you step out of your skin and you go. And it's time to go."
Dalton responded after practice.
"He just wants some fire out there, making sure that we're perfect in practice and in everything that we're doing. I'm not to worried about what he said. He just expects a lot out of us."
The Bengals play the Denver Broncos on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. at Paul Brown Stadium.
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