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"Good Night and Good Luck" panel discussion

A panel discussion about the motion picture “Good Night and Good Luck” was conducted September 20 in Washington under the auspices of the Radio-Television News Directors Association and Warner Independent Pictures. The panel --moderated by Marvin Kalb, former CBS correspondent-- was made up of George Clooney, producer, co-writer, and co-star of the movie; David Strathairn, lead actor who portrays Edward R. Murrow in the movie, and Grant Heslov, co-writer of the movie who also plays a minor role (Don Hewitt of 60 Minutes fame). Giving preliminary remarks was Barbara Cochran, the President of RTNDA. The first few minutes of the recording are with Bill Roswell, News Director of KYW, Philadelphia, a member of the RTNDA Board. Missourinet News Director Bob Priddy consulted on the movie.

Supreme Court arguments $99 a year

The Missourinet has been streaming the audio of oral arguments before the Missouri Supreme Court for several years now (since 2000?). Time and again, we've tried to find a business or organization to sponsor or underwrite the cost of providing this service. The court, the state bar association, the law schools. No takers.

Before pulling this plug, we're going to try a subscription model and see if the folks that use the service value it enough to pay for it. $99 buys a one-year subscription that includes a live stream of the arguments and access to our audio archives, about five years of cases large and small. No idea what the response to this change will be, but we'll share it here.

Political blogging in Missouri

Political junkies can get their "political fix" from a new (early September?) blog on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website. P-D politics writer Jo Mannies is hosting (whatever that means) the blog "with contributions from Post-Dispatch reporters from St. Louis City Hall to Jefferson City and everywhere in between." Mannies also did a nice piece (Sunday) on political blogging in Missouri.

Rich Miller at the Capitol Fax Blog takes issue with "Illinois hasn't seen such growth":

"And if reporter Jo Mannies would have bothered to look at the list of blogs on either Larry's site or mine, Mannies would have seen a huge number of Illinois blogs, most of which have been started in the past 12 months."