Liberal In Texas
Liberal In Texas's JournalFormer DFW radio and TV car critic Ed Wallace dies at 72
Kind of sad. I worked with him for several years, didn't know him well but could tell he was a really nice guy. And sobering when younger people than me pass on.
Ed Wallace, who regaled radio listeners, TV viewers and newspaper readers with stories and advice about cars, died Sunday at his Fort Worth home. He was 72. “Ed was the most intelligent man I ever knew,” said his wife, Judi Smith*. “There was a challenge of lifting me up to be a better person.” Smith described her husband as a “voracious reader” who was curious about everything.
Wallace wrote almost 1,000 columns for the Star-Telegram about the auto industry and on topics such as the Middle East. He wrote his final column for the Star-Telegram on Feb. 12, 2021. He also hosted a five-hour radio show on KLIF every Saturday called “Wheels with Ed Wallace,” and he was the car and truck critic for the Fox 4 morning show, “Good Day” until he retired in 2022.
Wallace was born in Riverside, California, on May 4, 1953. Smith said Wallace was a “military brat” whose father was an Air Force pilot. His parents wanted to retire in Fort Worth, she said. Wallace graduated from Arlington Heights High School but never went to college. “He was too smart for college,” Smith said. Smith said her husband sold cars, had a stint on the “Dating Game” and played in a rock band called Santa Fe before his journalism career.
Wallace is a recipient of the Gerald R. Loeb Award for business journalism, bestowed by the Anderson School of Business at UCLA.
*I suspect this is a typo, I knew her as Judi White for over 20 years.
Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/obituaries/article314057736.html#storylink=cpy
He did his radio and TV shows on stations that one would consider "conservative" be he was quite progressive.
If this isn't an impeachable offense, I don't know what is.
This is disgusting. Not to mention dishartening.
Tuesday Picture
This is what the dance hall will probably look like:
"Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"
Somebody on Quara asked this. A writer in the UK, Nate White, an articulate and witty writer in England had this response - (The whole article is worth a read, here is an excerpt.)
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/satire/why-do-some-british-people-not-like-donald-trump-135275/
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
It's like they don't realize CBS itself does not have a license.
Only the individual CBS local stations have FCC licenses for their over-the-air signals. I believe the FCC would have to hold hearings on every CBS affiliated station in the US: That's 251 of them. They would have to show some kind of reason to jerk their licenses. TV stations lawyers could keep this in the courts for years and years.
Trump and his lackeys think they're some kind of royalty from the 16th century.
An American tries to buy a gun in Germany.
Too bad we don't have 1/10 of these regulations...
So. April 2 is 'Liberation Day' I guess April 1 would have been too ironic or something. Maybe too apt.
April 2 is also:World Autism Awareness Day
International Children's Book Day
National DIY Day
National Ferret Day
National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
and soon -
National Stupidest President in History Day
Their propaganda was super charged with nearly unlimited billionaire resources.
This is magnified by the right wing media structure that they've been putting together since the 80s. The lies are repeated over and over and pretty soon voters start believing we are in a recession and the price of eggs is the fault of Joe Biden. Traditional corporate media has been cowed into both-siderism afraid of being accused of the dreaded "Liberal Media" insult. This is exacerbated by media owners pulling the reins back on news departments so as not to jeopardize political favor or tax cuts.
Voters were told that the economy was the best in the world after the recovery from covid shut-downs and other good news and positive things were campaigned on. It's just that the RW noise drowned it out. It isn't a matter of listening to fly-over country, it's a matter of being able to get a message out that they will actually hear. And have it repeated over and over.
If I might make a suggestion...
First of all, that's quite a story. You seem to have a wonderful family and have had a pretty darn good life.
My suggestion is that you have these precious old pictures that have faded and colors dimmed with age. Unless our folks or friends used Kodachrome back in the day, almost every picture that is decades old could use a little TLC.
I've been going through my old family and work pictures and have been scanning them to make an electronic record when the paper and the slides will inevitably be lost or destroyed from age or neglect.
I discovered just using a scanner on my printer was less than satisfying and even programs like PhotoShop only did so much and were time consuming and difficult to use. And I have a bunch of family slides and the printer scanner is worthless for scanning them in.
Anyway, I found that Epson makes a scanner and the software it come with is just amazing. Basically, you scan your photo or slide and click on the color restore box and maybe tweak it a little more with other adjustments and voila:
(Late 70s photo I took of our TV station's helicopter with an obvious Before and After)
I'm using an Epson V600 but other makes might be available. There may be some snazzy models in Germany I don't know about. But the one I'm using works like magic.
Thanks for sharing your story. It is very interesting.
No. To me the camera was square-on to both of them. Biden wasn't looking at the camera when
he should have been. Many times he was addressing the moderators who were on the right side of the camera. On TV you have to look at the audience - the camera not people in the room. Trump has had years and years of experience doing this. And Biden should have been coached to do it too.
Speaking of the Biden debate team: They made a big - huge - mistake asking for Biden to be on the right side of the set and therefor the right side of the "double box" during the broadcast. TV stations and networks all know that you put your on-air talent, anchors, hosts almost always on the left side and the guest on the right. The left side is a position of authority, the position where the questions are being asked the position of the person who is the leader of their show. If you don't believe me just watch any local or network broadcast.
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