is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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Yep, definitely a tragedy. Did you happen to read the passage in Gladwell’s The Tipping Point which told of the study they did on non-verbal cues by network news anchormen?
Basically, they showed a statistically significant amount of people videos of Jennings, Brokaw, and Rather speaking about the 1984 presidential candidates… only they turned the sound completely off. Viewers reported zero abnormal preference for the republican or democratic candidate when viewing either the Brokaw or the Rather videos but strangely a high preference for the republican candidate after viewing the Jennings video. Strange, but true!
I’m sure it had something to do with his vaguely European demeanor — obituaries have routinely described him as “urbane,” but let’s face it, that’s just a red state-friendly way of saying his appeal consisted of a friendly kind of quasi-British (okay, Canadian) superiority. I admit that’s a big part of why I liked him. Still, he was a hell of an anchor man.
It is indeed a tragedy. In less than 9 months, the big three have left. I grew up on Jennings in the evening and GMA in the morning. Perhaps Jennings most memorable moment for me was his coverage of 9/11.
I have to disagree on Fox News. They are just as if not more reliable than many of leading news organizations today. They deserve the right to exist just like CNN, CBS, or ABC. The right of free speech doesn’t extend just to liberal news distributors.
Yup. As a fan of the BBC and how honorable, intelligent and classy their broadcasters tend to be, Jennings was our closest equivalent to that on air. Never cared for Brokaw or Rather, but Jennings will be sorely missed. Always had tremendous respect and admiration for him.
In Australia, ‘urbane’ is a friendly euphemism for ‘gayest bloke in town’.