(07-12-2016, 10:05 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: RIP: "A Prairie Home Companion"
I missed this a few days ago:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/07/02...airie-home
An ocean of people swept in to the Hollywood Bowl and sat down with Garrison Keillor for his final show as host of "A Prairie Home Companion."
"... and that's the news from Lake Wobegon"
Technically this would belong in a thread for notable cancellations of television and radio programs. I am creating such a thread, and yours should be the first inclusion. This thread is for literal deaths of living persons and notable animals (I had a racehorse here) such as Presidential pets and last creatures of the species.
I had a thread in the old T4T Forums for business failures and I would suggest that for a significant business that dies (bankruptcy, liquidation, forced merger). I had lots of those when George W. Bush was President (even before the Crash of 2008), and the only notable ones since then was the infamous Corinthian Colleges (institutions better at grabbing revenue from federal student loans than for educating students or preparing them for the careers they were promised) and some coal company.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.