Friday April 11
End Of An Era - The Concorde
The Concorde may prove to be not only the world's only supersonic commercial aircraft, but also its last. It's being retired by Air France and British Airways.
A sad day for technology, a great day for the tree-huggers, but overall just another change in fashion. With the economic collapse of the airline industry, airlines are switching focus from fast to cheap, and from big to efficient. See Why economists don't fly Concorde. As if we needed to be told that there's no more romance in flying. Duh!!
Posted by glenn at The TV War
All War, All The Time. What began as a fascinating experiment in real-time war television turned into a lesson in repetion, drudgery and superficiality. At least until the fall of Baghdad. As New York Times critic Charles McGrath observes:
The Iraq War, in short, was basically a TV bomb!!