Monday, September 11, 2006

X ray Reading

1) James Horner is an acedemy award winning composer who has written scores and songs fore more than 100 movies, including "Titanic"- one of the best selling soundtracks in history.
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3)Yes he tries to connect with people and grab there attention by mentioning his work which arguably is one of the biggest movies in the history of cinema.
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5)The mentioning of Horner's accolades or his work on the movie "Titanic"
6)Confusion, uncertainty, nervousness
7) CBS liked the finished product so much that it asked Mr. Beckerman to weave it into news programming across the network. "I'm just thankful that CBS really meant it when they said they wanted me to break the mold,' Mr. Horner says. Most often when people say that, they hear it and then say , Um, we didn't mean that broken.' "
8) I think it has a memorable quote because his quote makes me want to know how a news intro can break barriers or molds. I want to listen to it to hear how it differentiates itself from other news intros.
9)"It's the ham-sandwhich rule, when somebody leaves the room to get a snack, you need to remind them to come back to the TV."
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11)The part of the article that describs the first time Couric and other CBS big wigs listened to Horner's new theme is very visual to me. The writer describes the the warm afternoon as "sticky" and describes Horner's recollection of the situation.
12) I learned that major news companies take even the smallest details extremly serious even if it's just a ten second music clip.

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