Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

Green Cathedrals: Environmentalism's Mythological Appeal

Ed Driscoll; Just as the Big Three car manufacturers, with a once-monolithic hold on American consumers, seemed unaware that the public wanted a wider choice of cars (until Japan listened and responded), Pauline Kael’s in-crowd of coastal elites has, if anything, become even more clueless and resistant to emerging changes in the culture and dissemination of information. How clueless? In 2004, Jonathan Klein, the former executive vice president of CBS News, described blogging as “a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing.” Last May, Time-Warner CEO Richard Parsons was quoted as saying, “The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation. They will lose this war if they go to war. The notion that the new kids on the block have taken over is a false notion.” Just how did the mainstream media (“MSM”) become so monolithic and unresponsive in the first place? And how is the rise of “Weblogs” helping to establish a new, more “fair and bala...

Something very new here - I'm started publishing some of my photography in calendars. There are a few more projects in the works - but to start with I've made some of my scenic photographs of a recent trip to Heritage Park in Calgary available through LULU.COM . There is a sample of the calendar on the left. To preview the calendar - click on the link below to go to the Cole's Note's Storefront at Lulu.com and you can order your own copy if you'd like. Heritage Reflections 2008 by Coleman Cooper (Calendar) in Travel & Regional Hopefully this will be the first of a couple of different projects I'm working on that will make some of the material available to folks.