"It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge that what it gains it never loses. On the contrary, it increases by the multiple of its own power: all its ends become means; all its attainments help to new conquests." Daniel Webster

"The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression; the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit." Alfred Bougeart

"Make yourself necessary to somebody." Emerson

Last night Larry King interviewed Tammy Faye. The CNN video is available here. My sense is Larry (a former colleague) and his producers failed to exercise good judgment by putting the very fragile, cancer ravaged Tammy Faye on the show. Voyeuristic, sensational, exploitive. Without regard to her intentions or wishes in granting, or perhaps requesting, the interview (e.g., to say goodbye), someone should have done the right thing for Tammy Faye and prevented her on screen appearance. It seems to me this should have been a matter of preserving dignity, instead it became another example of the media's disregardful behavior. Shame on you Larry. When your last days are near my sincere hope is someone is there to look out for you, a producer that passes on the death's door get, a producer that does the right thing to preserve your memory, your dignity.

Congrats & cheers: Al Peterson announces his Talk Media Conference coming Q1 of 2008.