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January 5, 2006

Jon Stewart to Host Oscars; Live and unreleased mp3s: Mitchell/Taylor, Lennon, Nyro, jazz

Jon Stewart to Host Oscar Show: L.A. Times.

Joni Mitchell and James Taylor At The Royal Albert Hall, Oct 28, 1970: ROIO of the Week [Recordings of Indeterminate Origin] at BigO Worldwide magazine, based in Singapore.

This one's worth bookmarking for its live concerts and unreleased tracks, each available for a short time. Also still open:

Laura Nyro, Fillmore East 1970
John Lennon, You Should'a Been There
Wilco Montreal 2005
Anthony Braxton Standards Quartet 2003

Hat tip to first blogger Jorn Barger, who's been so good at finding shiny nuggets for so long.

NBC Removed Reference To Amanpour To "Further Continue Our Inquiry": I'm not the only one who noticed Andrea Mitchell asking NSA-spying reporter James Risen whether CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour had been targeted. From TVNewser,

Yesterday, MSNBC.com published a transcript of Andrea Mitchell's interview with author James Risen about the CIA's domestic spying program. In it, Mitchell asked Risen if he had uncovered evidence that CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour was eavesdropped upon. It was a specific and pointed question that led AMERICAblog to ask if the veteran journalist had been spied on by the Bush administration. This afternoon, MSNBC.com removed the portion of the transcript that referred to Amanpour. (Here's what it originally said.) In a statement to TVNewser tonight, NBC explained why:

"Unfortunately this transcript was released prematurely. It was a topic on which we had not completed our reporting, and it was not broadcast on 'NBC Nightly News' nor on any other NBC News program. We removed that section of the transcript so that we may further continue our inquiry."

It's not clear why leaving that in the transcript would hinder their inquiry, so it's a backwards way to say, "Oops, we were taking the opportunity to ask Risen about this other angle we're working on, but that story's not ready yet..."

Posted by Sheila Lennon at 7:34 AM | Permalink