I agree with the post (below). It must have been a slow news week.
Just for the record, with regard to the Observer story:
Kurt Vonnegut's interview for The Infinite Mind was his last full sit-down discussion, with an interviewer. They spoke for nearly an hour, and it was all included in the Google and YouTube videos (which have been seen more more than 75,000 viewers), and parts were aired on The Infinite Mind public radio show.
Contrary to what the Observer reporter asserted, our phrasing was not confusing, i.e. that it was Vonnegut's "last interview for The Infinite Mind."
What we said on Google Video was:
"Author Kurt Vonnegut’s last sit-down interview, with The Infinite Mind's John Hockenberry, recorded live in the virtual on-line community Second Life. The interview was part of the first live broadcasts from Second Life. The program will re-air on the national, weekly public radio series during the week starting April 18, 2007."
I don’t think we could have been more clear.
Second, I am surprised that the reporter never called the producers of The Infinite Mind to discuss it as part of his supposedly dogged historical research. If he was trying to sort it out, he should have.
Finally, it's just foofaraw. Likely Vonnegut would have chuckled. I can hear him even now.
I agree with the post (below). It must have been a slow news week.
Just for the record, with regard to the Observer story:
Kurt Vonnegut's interview for The Infinite Mind was his last full sit-down discussion, with an interviewer. They spoke for nearly an hour, and it was all included in the Google and YouTube videos (which have been seen more more than 75,000 viewers), and parts were aired on The Infinite Mind public radio show.
Contrary to what the Observer reporter asserted, our phrasing was not confusing, i.e. that it was Vonnegut's "last interview for The Infinite Mind."
What we said on Google Video was:
"Author Kurt Vonnegut’s last sit-down interview, with The Infinite Mind's John Hockenberry, recorded live in the virtual on-line community Second Life. The interview was part of the first live broadcasts from Second Life. The program will re-air on the national, weekly public radio series during the week starting April 18, 2007."
I don’t think we could have been more clear.
Second, I am surprised that the reporter never called the producers of The Infinite Mind to discuss it as part of his supposedly dogged historical research. If he was trying to sort it out, he should have.
Finally, it's just foofaraw. Likely Vonnegut would have chuckled. I can hear him even now.
Bill Lichtenstein, LCMedia