Old News: Very Early Media Coverage of the GOP Candidates
Every week, I used to wander into the New York Times archives to find the first time the paper covered various topics (like The Walkman). In honor of tonight’s Iowa Caucus, we’re bringing back “The First Time News Was Fit to Print.” Here are the first times The Times mentioned each of the remaining GOP [...]
A Brief History of the Jerry Lewis Telethon
There’s probably a special place in Hell reserved for those of us who watch Jerry Lewis’s annual Labor Day Telethon strictly for laughs. After all, Jerry’s humanitarian efforts over the years have raised over a billion dollars for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, money which not only pays for research but also medical equipment and recreational [...]
