The Bash Brothers are a duo of former baseball players consisting of Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire . Both prolific home run hitters, the two were teammates in Major League Baseball (MLB) for seven seasons with the Oakland Athletics , helping the team win a World Series title in 1989 .
136-570: The two began celebrating homers by bashing each other's forearms, which spawned a marketing campaign that was a takeoff on The Blues Brothers . After retiring from playing, Canseco and McGwire both admitted to using anabolic steroids during their careers. Canseco was drafted by the Oakland A's in the 15th round of the 1982 MLB Draft . He did not become a legitimate power hitter until he began weightlifting in late 1984 and gained 35 pounds (16 kg) of muscle. In 1985 he jumped from AA to AAA to
272-409: A combined 196–224 record, and were having a nondescript offseason before acquiring him for pitcher John Wasdin . Reuniting him with McGwire, who together were once one of the most explosive tandems in baseball, boosted the team's ticket sales considerably. McGwire was coming off of a majors-leading 52-homer season, and Canseco remained a threat with his tremendous bat speed . However, McGwire's contract
408-405: A common means of conveying information to citydwellers. In thirteenth-century Florence, criers known as banditori arrived in the market regularly, to announce political news, to convoke public meetings, and to call the populace to arms. In 1307 and 1322–1325, laws were established governing their appointment, conduct, and salary. These laws stipulated how many times a banditoro was to repeat
544-783: A day. This system became the Imperial Reichspost , administered by Tasso descendants (subsequently known as Thurn-und-Taxis ), who in 1587 received exclusive operating rights from the Emperor. The French postal service and English postal service also began at this time, but did not become comprehensive until the early 1600s. In 1620, the English system linked with Thurn-und-Taxis. These connections underpinned an extensive system of news circulation, with handwritten items bearing dates and places of origin. Centred in Germany,
680-436: A job to prolong his career, he accused teams of blackballing him. McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998 to break Roger Maris ' long-standing major-league record of 61. It was the highlight of a four-year stretch from 1996 though 1999 in which McGwire hit 245 homers. He finished his career with 583 home runs, and averaged one homer every 10.6 at-bats in his career for the best at bats per home run ratio in major league history. He
816-404: A larger network. A common type of business communication was a simple listing of current prices, the circulation of which quickened the flow of international trade. Businesspeople also wanted to know about events related to shipping, the affairs of other businesses, and political developments. Even after the advent of international newspapers, business owners still valued correspondence highly as
952-673: A licensing system for the press and banned "seditious opinions". Under the Licensing Act , publication was restricted to approved presses—as exemplified by The London Gazette, which prominently bore the words: "Published By Authority". Parliament allowed the Licensing Act to lapse in 1695, beginning a new era marked by Whig and Tory newspapers. (During this era, the Stamp Act limited newspaper distribution simply by making them expensive to sell and buy.) In France, censorship
1088-680: A matter of priority. Sufficiently important news would be repeated quickly and often, and could spread by word of mouth over a large geographic area. Even as printing presses came into use in Europe , news for the general public often travelled orally via monks, travelers, town criers , etc. The news is also transmitted in public gathering places, such as the Greek forum and the Roman baths. Starting in England , coffeehouses served as important sites for
1224-509: A more emotive and freewheeling format. (Private newsletters containing important intelligence therefore remained in use by people who needed to know.) The first newspapers emerged in Germany in the early 1600s. Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien , from 1605, is recognized as the world's first formalized 'newspaper'; while not a 'newspaper' in the modern sense, the Ancient Roman Acta Diurna served
1360-597: A native African language was the Muigwithania , published in Kikuyu by the Kenyan Central Association. Muigwithania and other newspapers published by indigenous Africans took strong opposition stances, agitating strongly for African independence. Newspapers were censored heavily during the colonial period—as well as after formal independence. Some liberalization and diversification took place in
1496-722: A new era of 24-hour satellite news broadcasting. In 1991, the BBC introduced a competitor, BBC World Service Television . Rupert Murdoch's Australian News Corporation entered the picture with Fox News Channel in the US, Sky News in Britain, and STAR TV in Asia. Combining this new apparatus with the use of embedded reporters , the United States waged the 1991–1992 Gulf War with the assistance of nonstop media coverage . CNN's specialty
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#17328016711321632-572: A proclamation (forty) and where in the city they were to read them. Different declarations sometimes came with additional protocols; announcements regarding the plague were also to be read at the city gates. These proclamations all used a standard format, beginning with an exordium —"The worshipful and most esteemed gentlemen of the Eight of Ward and Security of the city of Florence make it known, notify, and expressly command, to whosoever, of whatever status, rank, quality and condition"—and continuing with
1768-584: A restructuring of the national postal systems, and closely followed by the advent of telephone lines. With the value of international news at a premium, governments, businesses, and news agencies moved aggressively to reduce transmission times. In 1865, Reuters had the scoop on the Lincoln assassination , reporting the news in England twelve days after the event took place. In 1866, an undersea telegraph cable successfully connected Ireland to Newfoundland (and thus
1904-451: A similar purpose circa 131 BC. The new format, which mashed together numerous unrelated and perhaps dubious reports from far-flung locations, created a radically new and jarring experience for its readers. A variety of styles emerged, from single-story tales, to compilations, overviews, and personal and impersonal types of news analysis. News for public consumption was at first tightly controlled by governments. By 1530, England had created
2040-454: A source of reliable news that would affect their enterprise. Handwritten newsletters, which could be produced quickly for a limited clientele, also continued into the 1600s. The spread of paper and the printing press from China to Europe preceded a major advance in the transmission of news. With the spread of printing presses and the creation of new markets in the 1500s, news underwent a shift from factual and precise economic reporting, to
2176-548: A statement ( narratio ), a request made upon the listeners ( petitio ), and the penalty to be exacted from those who would not comply ( peroratio ). In addition to major declarations, bandi (announcements) might concern petty crimes, requests for information, and notices about missing slaves. Niccolò Machiavelli was captured by the Medicis in 1513, following a bando calling for his immediate surrender. Some town criers could be paid to include advertising along with news. Under
2312-407: A visual album entitled The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience . Its release was timed with the 30th anniversary of the A's 1989 championship season. Canseco said that he "loved" the video and could not "stop laughing." In their first home game after its release, the A's tweeted at The Lonely Island about The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience and played one of its tracks, "Oakland Nights", at
2448-428: Is also sometimes said to portray the truth , but this relationship is elusive and qualified. Paradoxically, another property commonly attributed to news is sensationalism , the disproportionate focus on, and exaggeration of, emotive stories for public consumption. This news is also not unrelated to gossip , the human practice of sharing information about other humans of mutual interest. A common sensational topic
2584-528: Is credited with coining the phrase "current events" while teaching at Barnard College in the 1890s. As its name implies, "news" typically connotes the presentation of new information. The newness of news gives it an uncertain quality which distinguishes it from the more careful investigations of history or other scholarly disciplines. Whereas historians tend to view events as causally related manifestations of underlying processes, news stories tend to describe events in isolation, and to exclude discussion of
2720-574: Is credited with developing one of the most effective imperial surveillance and communications networks in the ancient world. Government-produced news sheets, called tipao , circulated among court officials during the late Han dynasty (second and third centuries AD). Between 713 and 734, the Kaiyuan Za Bao ("Bulletin of the Court") of the Chinese Tang dynasty published government news; it
2856-724: Is once again prevailed upon to save some orphans, and with a 10-year-old boy named Buster Blues ( J. Evan Bonifant ) in tow, Elwood again sets about the task of reuniting his band. He recruits some new singers, Mighty Mack ( John Goodman ) and Cab ( Joe Morton ), a policeman who was Curtis' son. All the original band members are found, as well as some performers from the first film, including Aretha Franklin and James Brown . There are dozens of other guest performers, including Eric Clapton , Steve Winwood , Junior Wells , Lonnie Brooks , Eddie Floyd , Wilson Pickett , Isaac Hayes , Sam Moore , Taj Mahal and Jonny Lang , Blues Traveler , as well as an all-star supergroup led by B.B. King called
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#17328016711322992-600: Is the crisis , to which the network is prepared to shift its total attention if so chosen. CNN news was transmitted via Intelsat communications satellites. CNN, said an executive, would bring a "town crier to the global village". In 1996, the Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera emerged as a powerful alternative to the Western media, capitalizing in part on anger in the Arab & Muslim world regarding biased coverage of
3128-422: Is violence; hence another news dictum, "if it bleeds, it leads". Newsworthiness is defined as a subject having sufficient relevance to the public or a special audience to warrant press attention or coverage. News values seem to be common across cultures. People seem to be interested in news to the extent which it has a big impact, describes conflicts, happens nearby, involves well-known people, and deviates from
3264-612: The Chicago Sun-Times , Aykroyd said the Blues Brothers act borrowed from Sam and Dave and others; the Sun-Times quoted him as explaining: "Well, obviously, the duo thing and the dancing, but the hats came from John Lee Hooker . The suits came from the concept that when you were a jazz player in the '40s, '50s '60s, to look straight, you had to wear a suit." The band was modeled in part on Aykroyd's experience with
3400-577: The 1984 Summer Olympics before being selected by the A's in the first round of the 1984 draft . In two-plus years in the minor leagues , McGwire hit 48 home runs. He debuted with the A's as a third baseman in August 1986. The outfielder Canseco was named the American League (AL) Rookie of the Year in 1986 when he hit 33 homers, and McGwire captured the award the following season , when he
3536-630: The Catholic orphanage where they grew up, choose to take on a "mission from God " and re-form their old blues band in order to raise funds to save the orphanage. Along the way, the brothers are targeted by a "mystery woman" ( Carrie Fisher ) and chased by the Illinois State Police , a country and western band called the Good Ol' Boys, and " Illinois Nazis ". The film grossed $ 57 million domestically in its theatrical release, making it
3672-718: The Downchild Blues Band , one of the first professional blues bands in Canada, with whom Aykroyd played on occasion. Aykroyd encountered the band in the early 1970s, around the time of his attendance at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario , Canada, and where his interest in the blues developed through attending and occasionally performing at Ottawa's Le Hibou Coffee House . As Aykroyd described it: So I grew up (in Ottawa), in this capital city. My parents used to work for
3808-514: The Edo period was even more effective, with average speeds of 125–150 km/day and express speed of 200 km/day. This system was initially used only by the government, taking private communications only at exorbitant prices. Private services emerged and in 1668 established their own nakama (guild). They became even faster, and created an effective optical telegraphy system using flags by day and lanterns and mirrors by night. In Europe, during
3944-513: The Floyd Dixon song "Hey, Bartender" on a few occasions, and using Salgado's humorous alternate lyrics to "I Don't Know": I said Woman, you going to walk a mile for a Camel or are you going to make like Mr. Chesterfield and satisfy? She said, that all depends on what you're packing, regular or king-size. Then she pulled out my Jim Beam and to her surprise It was every bit as hard as my Canadian Club These lyrics were used in
4080-538: The Grateful Dead at the closing of Winterland Arena in San Francisco, and gained further fame after spawning the comedy film The Blues Brothers in 1980. They remain the most successful blues revue act of all time. Belushi died in 1982, but the Blues Brothers continued to perform with a rotation of guest singers and other band members. The band re-formed in 1988 for a world tour and again in 1998 for
4216-540: The Holy Roman Empire , Emperor Maximillian I in 1490 authorized two brothers from the Italian Tasso family, Francesco and Janetto, to create a network of courier stations linked by riders. They began with a communications line between Innsbruck and Mechelen and grew from there. In 1505 this network expanded to Spain, new governed by Maximilian's son Philip . These riders could travel 180 kilometers in
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4352-490: The House of Blues franchise, a national chain of nightclubs. In Italy the franchise is now owned by Zucchero, who used the brand during the tour promoting his album Black Cat of 2016. Jim Belushi toured with the band for a short time as "Zee Blues", and recorded the album Blues Brothers and Friends: Live from Chicago's House of Blues with Dan Aykroyd. Jim would later reunite with Aykroyd to record yet another album, not as
4488-675: The Ottoman Empire , official messages were regularly distributed at mosques, by traveling holy men, and by secular criers. These criers were sent to read official announcements in marketplaces, highways, and other well-traveled places, sometimes issuing commands and penalties for disobedience. The spread of news has always been linked to the communications networks in place to disseminate it. Thus, political, religious, and commercial interests have historically controlled, expanded, and monitored communications channels by which news could spread. Postal services have long been closely entwined with
4624-674: The Reuters news agency—specializing in news from the continent. In 1863, William Saunders and Edward Spender formed the Central Press agency, later called the Press Association , to handle domestic news. Just before insulated telegraph line crossed the English Channel in 1851, Reuter won the right to transmit stock exchange prices between Paris and London. He maneuvered Reuters into a dominant global position with
4760-721: The Slavic languages – namely cognates from Serbo-Croatian novost (from nov , "new"), Czech and Slovak noviny (from nový , "new"), the Polish nowiny (pronounced noviney ), the Bulgarian novini and Russian novosti – and likewise in the Celtic languages : the Welsh newyddion (from newydd ) and the Cornish nowodhow (from nowydh ). Jessica Garretson Finch
4896-630: The Taika Reform and again during the Kamakura period from 1183 to 1333. The system depended on hikyaku , runners, and regularly spaced relay stations. By this method, news could travel between Kyoto and Kamakura in 5–7 days. Special horse-mounted messengers could move information at the speed of 170 kilometers per day. The Japanese shogunates were less tolerant than the Chinese government of news circulation. The postal system established during
5032-470: The early modern period . In the 20th century, radio and television became an important means of transmitting news. Whilst in the 21st, the internet has also begun to play a similar role. The English word "news" developed in the 14th century as a special use of the plural form of "new". In Middle English , the equivalent word was newes , like the French nouvelles . Similar developments are found in
5168-682: The environment , as well as quirky or unusual events. Government proclamations, concerning royal ceremonies , laws , taxes , public health , and criminals , have been dubbed news since ancient times. Technological and social developments , often driven by government communication and espionage networks, have increased the speed with which news can spread, as well as influenced its content. Throughout history, people have transported new information through oral means. Having developed in China over centuries, newspapers became established in Europe during
5304-400: The stock markets . Yet, as in the case other newspapers, the incorporation of advertising into the newspaper led to justified reservations about accepting newspaper information at face value. Economic newspapers also became promoters of economic ideologies, such as Keynesianism in the mid-1900s. Newspapers came to sub-Saharan Africa via colonization. The first English-language newspaper in
5440-515: The 10th highest-grossing movie of 1980, and grossed an additional $ 58 million in foreign release. With Landis again directing, the sequel to The Blues Brothers was made in 1998. It fared considerably worse than its predecessor with fans and critics, though it is more ambitious in terms of musical performances by the band and has a more extensive roster of guest artists than the first film. The story picks up 18 years later with Elwood being released from prison, and learning that his brother has died. He
5576-475: The 1790s through the 1850s. The world's first written news may have originated in eighth century BCE China , where reports gathered by officials were eventually compiled as the Spring and Autumn Annals . The annals, whose compilation is attributed to Confucius , were available to a sizeable reading public and dealt with common news themes—though they straddle the line between news and history. The Han dynasty
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5712-495: The 1800s and after retained the commercial orientation characteristic of the private newsletters of the Renaissance. Economically oriented newspapers published new types of data enabled the advent of statistics , especially economic statistics which could inform sophisticated investment decisions. These newspapers, too, became available for larger sections of society, not just elites, keen on investing some of their savings in
5848-801: The 1800s. American newspapers got many of their stories by copying reports from each other. Thus by offering free postage to newspapers wishing to exchange copies, the Postal Service Act subsidized a rapidly growing news network through which different stories could percolate. Newspapers thrived during the colonization of the West , fueled by high literacy and a newspaper-loving culture. By 1880, San Francisco rivaled New York in number of different newspapers and in printed newspaper copies per capita. Boosters of new towns felt that newspapers covering local events brought legitimacy, recognition, and community. The 1830s American, wrote Alexis de Tocqueville ,
5984-624: The 1962 hit by Bobby "Boris" Pickett . The "Monster Bash" video debuted on the Coliseum’s large Mitsubishi DiamondVision during the A's homestand against the Chicago White Sox on April 15–17, but was temporarily shelved after Oakland was swept in the three-game series. However, the A's released the song to local radio stations, and it ended up on the playlists of almost a dozen of them, whose formats varied from top 40 , oldies , new age , and even news/talk . The video later returned to
6120-682: The 1990s. Newspapers were slow to spread to the Arab world , which had a stronger tradition of oral communication , and mistrust of the European approach to news reporting. By the end of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire's leaders in Istanbul monitored the European press, but its contents were not disseminated for mass consumption. Some of the first written news in modern North Africa arose in Egypt under Muhammad Ali , who developed
6256-656: The Band collaborated with the Italian singer Zucchero Fornaciari , who had been invited to the event in memory of John Belushi's 46th birthday. After a concert together, they registered the videoclip of the Zucchero song "Per colpa di chi?" at the House of Blues. In 1997, an animated sitcom with Jake and Elwood was planned, but scrapped after only eight episodes were produced. Peter Aykroyd and Jim Belushi replaced their brothers as
6392-778: The Blues Brothers but as themselves: Belushi/Aykroyd – Have Love Will Travel (Big Men-Big Music). In 2004, the showband revue The Blues Brothers Revival premiered in Chicago. The story was about Elwood trying to rescue Jake from an eternity in limbo / purgatory . The revue was written and composed with approval and permission from both the John Belushi estate (including his widow, Judith Belushi-Pisano) and Dan Aykroyd. The Blues Brothers featuring Elwood and Zee regularly perform at House of Blues venues and various casinos across North America. They are usually backed by Jim Belushi's Sacred Hearts Band. The Original Blues Brothers Band tours
6528-582: The Blues Brothers have performed on SNL and for charitable and political causes. Aykroyd has been accompanied by Jim Belushi and John Goodman in character as "Zee" Blues and "Mighty Mack" McTeer. The copyright owners have also authorized some copycat acts to perform under the Blues Brothers name; one such act performs regularly at the Universal Studios Florida theme park in Orlando, Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood . In 1995,
6664-524: The British news agencies. BBC radio marketed itself as a news by and for social elites, and hired only broadcasters who spoke with upper-class accents. The BBC gained importance in the May 1926 general strike, during which newspapers were closed and the radio served as the only source of news for an uncertain public. (To the displeasure of many listeners, the BBC took an unambiguously pro-government stance against
6800-485: The Coliseum. The Blues Brothers The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revue band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi , who met and began collaborating as original cast members of Saturday Night Live . A common misconception is that the act also originated on SNL . The Blues Brothers, however, was an independent project of Belushi and Aykroyd, first appearing as
6936-705: The Commander in Chief. Five years previously, SETI Project Scientists detected a faint signal from Gamma Proteous 5 in the Carina Nebula. Now, in a highly classified CIA led operation, First Contact and the arrival of alien visitors on Planet Earth is scheduled for 7-23pm on Tuesday 24th August at Area 56 in the Dark Mountains of Global Region Echo. However, the President has intelligence that suggests
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#17328016711327072-460: The European nations prepared for war. The war provided an opportunity to expand radio and take advantage of its new potential. The BBC reported on Allied invasion of Normandy on 8:00 a.m. of the morning it took place, and including a clip from German radio coverage of the same event. Listeners followed along with developments throughout the day. The U.S. set up its Office of War Information which by 1942 sent programming across South America,
7208-508: The French government's optical telegraph network. In 1840 he began using pigeons for communications to Paris, London, and Brussels. Havas began to use the electric telegraph when it became available. One of Havas's proteges, Bernhard Wolff , founded Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau in Berlin in 1849. Another Havas disciple, Paul Reuter , began collecting news from Germany and France in 1849, and in 1851 immigrated to London, where he established
7344-630: The Gulf War. Al Jazeera hired many news workers conveniently laid off by BBC Arabic Television , which closed in April 1996. It used Arabsat to broadcast. The early internet, known as ARPANET , was controlled by the U.S. Department of Defense and used mostly by academics. It became available to a wider public with the release of the Netscape browser in 1994. At first, news websites were mostly archives of print publications. An early online newspaper
7480-612: The Louisiana Gator Boys. On the run from the police, Russian mafia and a racist militia , the band eventually ends up in Louisiana , where they enter a Battle of the Bands overseen by a voodoo practitioner named Queen Moussette ( Erykah Badu ). During a song by the Blues Brothers (a Caribbean number called "Funky Nassau"), a character played by Paul Shaffer asks to cut in on keyboards, which Murph allows. This marks
7616-402: The Making of The Blues Brothers , a 1998 documentary included on some DVD editions of the first Blues Brothers film, Cropper noted that some of his peers thought that he and the other musicians backing the Blues Brothers were selling out to Hollywood or using a gimmick to make some quick money. Cropper responded by stating that he thought Belushi was as good as (or even better than) many of
7752-402: The Middle Ages, elites relied on runners to transmit news over long distances. At 33 kilometres per day, a runner would take two months to bring a message across the Hanseatic League from Bruges to Riga. In the early modern period , increased cross-border interaction created a rising need for information which was met by concise handwritten newssheets. The driving force of this new development
7888-428: The Middle East, and East Asia. Radio Luxembourg , a centrally located high-power station on the continent, was seized by Germany , and then by the United States —which created fake news programs appearing as though they were created by Germany. Targeting American troops in the Pacific, the Japanese government broadcast the " Zero Hour " program, which included news from the U.S. to make the soldiers homesick. But by
8024-465: The Press–Radio Bureau and eschew advertising; this agreement soon collapsed and radio stations began reporting their own news (with advertising). As in Britain, American news radio avoided "controversial" topics as per norms established by the National Association of Broadcasters . By 1939, 58% of Americans surveyed by Fortune considered radio news more accurate than newspapers, and 70% chose radio as their main news source. Radio expanded rapidly across
8160-400: The Red China News Agency, in 1931; its primary responsibilities were the Red China newspaper and the internal Reference News . In 1937, the Party renamed the agency Xinhua , New China. Xinhua became the official news agency of the People's Republic of China in 1949. These agencies touted their ability to distill events into "minute globules of news", 20–30 word summaries which conveyed
8296-406: The Western Union network) cutting trans-Atlantic transmission time from days to hours. The transatlantic cable allowed fast exchange of information about the London and New York stock exchanges, as well as the New York, Chicago, and Liverpool commodity exchanges—for the price of $ 5–10, in gold, per word. Transmitting On 11 May 1857, a young British telegraph operator in Delhi signaled home to alert
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#17328016711328432-399: The allegations in the paper. According to George Solomon , who was the Post' s sports editor, the newspaper required 100 percent certainty in what it published. "What Boswell said on CBS was Boswell’s opinion,” Solomon said. In October against Boston during the 1988 American League Championship Series , Red Sox fans at Fenway Park loudly chanted "Ster-roids! Ster-roids!" when Canseco was on
8568-452: The allegations, before refusing to comment on steroids during a congressional hearing the following month. In 2010, he too admitted to using steroids. Canseco expressed regret in writing his book and apologized to McGwire in 2014, but his former teammate has spurned multiple attempts at reconciliation. In May 2019, the comedy group The Lonely Island imagined the Bash Brothers as rappers from their pre- World Series winning season of 1988 in
8704-462: The area was The Royal Gazette and Sierra Leone Advertiser , established in 1801, and followed by The Royal Gold Coast Gazette and Commercial Intelligencer in 1822 and the Liberia Herald in 1826. A number of nineteenth-century African newspapers were established by missionaries. These newspapers by and large promoted the colonial governments and served the interests of European settlers by relaying news from Europe. The first newspaper published in
8840-530: The auspices of military, religious, and banking authorities. Sponsorship flavored the contents of each series, which were circulated under many different names. Subscribers included clerics, diplomatic staff, and noble families. By the last quarter of the seventeenth century, long passages from avvisi were finding their way into published monthlies such as the Mercure de France and, in northern Italy, Pallade veneta . Postal services enabled merchants and monarchs to stay abreast of important information. For
8976-446: The authorities of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 . The rebels proceeded to disrupt the British telegraph network, which was rebuilt with more redundancies. In 1902–1903, Britain and the U.S. completed the circumtelegraphy of the planet with transpacific cables from Canada to Fiji and New Zealand (British Empire), and from the US to Hawaii and the occupied Philippines. U.S. reassertions of the Monroe Doctrine notwithstanding, Latin America
9112-434: The band's debut performance on SNL . With the help of pianist-arranger Paul Shaffer , Belushi and Aykroyd started assembling a collection of studio talents to form their own band. These included SNL band members saxophonist "Blue" Lou Marini and trombonist-saxophonist Tom Malone , who had previously played in Blood, Sweat & Tears . At Shaffer's suggestion, guitarist Steve Cropper and bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn ,
9248-419: The band's most successful single, in 1974. Belushi's budding interest in the blues solidified in October 1977 when he was in Eugene, Oregon , filming National Lampoon's Animal House . He went to a local hotel to hear 25-year-old blues singer/harmonica player Curtis Salgado . After the show, Belushi and Salgado talked about the blues for hours. Belushi found Salgado's enthusiasm infectious. In an interview at
9384-472: The big three wire services opened relations with Vestnik , the news agency of Czarist Russia, to their group, though they maintained their own reporters in Moscow. During and after the Russian Revolution , the outside agencies maintained a working relationship with the Petrograd Telegraph Agency, renamed the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA) and eventually the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) . The Chinese Communist Party created its news agency,
9520-587: The colonial sphere of its mother country. Reuters and the Australian national news service had an agreement to exchange news only with each other. Due to the high cost of maintaining infrastructure, political goodwill, and global reach, newcomers found it virtually impossible to challenge the big three European agencies or the American Associated Press. In 1890 Reuters (in partnership with the Press Association, England's major news agency for domestic stories) expanded into "soft" news stories for public consumption, about topics such as sports and "human interest". In 1904,
9656-571: The continent, from 30 stations in 1920 to a thousand in the 1930s. This operation was financed mostly with advertising and public relations money. The Soviet Union began a major international broadcasting operation in 1929, with stations in German, English and French. The Nazi Party made use of the radio in its rise to power in Germany, with much of its propaganda focused on attacking the Soviet Bolsheviks. The British and Italian foreign radio services competed for influence in North Africa. All four of these broadcast services grew increasingly vitriolic as
9792-598: The diffusion of written documents is in Egypt, where Pharaohs used couriers for the diffusion of their decrees in the territory of the State (2400 BC). Julius Caesar regularly publicized his heroic deeds in Gaul, and upon becoming dictator of Rome began publishing government announcements called Acta Diurna . These were carved in metal or stone and posted in public places. In medieval England, parliamentary declarations were delivered to sheriffs for public display and reading at
9928-576: The duo posed in front of an Oakland Police patrol car while holding giant 5-foot (1.5 m) baseball bats. The poster sold 50,000 copies in the San Francisco Bay Area in less than three weeks. It was as popular as any poster that Costacos had done, and it received immense press coverage. Due to the frequency and distance of their home runs, the Bash Brothers were a popular attraction in every American League city. McGwire became
10064-493: The end of the war, Britain had the largest radio network in the world, broadcasting internationally in 43 different languages. Its scope would eventually be surpassed (by 1955) by the worldwide Voice of America programs, produced by the United States Information Agency . In Britain and the United States, television news watching rose dramatically in the 1950s and by the 1960s supplanted radio as
10200-461: The essence of new developments. Unlike newspapers, and contrary to the sentiments of some of their reporters, the agencies sought to keep their reports simple and factual. The wire services brought forth the "inverted pyramid" model of news copy, in which key facts appear at the start of the text, and more and more details are included as it goes along. The sparse telegraphic writing style spilled over into newspapers, which often reprinted stories from
10336-544: The famous question, "What hath God wrought?", it transmitted the news that Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen had been chosen by the Whig nominating party.) Telegraph networks enabled a new centralization of the news, in the hands of wire services concentrated in major cities. The modern form of these originated with Charles-Louis Havas , who founded Bureau Havas (later Agence France-Presse ) in Paris. Havas began in 1832, using
10472-586: The fictional backstory of Jake and Elwood, having them growing up in a Roman Catholic orphanage in Rock Island, Illinois and learning the blues from a janitor named Curtis. Their blood brotherhood was sealed by cutting their middle fingers with a string said to come from the guitar of Elmore James . The band, along with the New Riders of the Purple Sage , opened for the Grateful Dead for
10608-571: The field. He denied the charges, and steroids at the time were not covered in the federal government's Controlled Substances Act . During his home run record chase in 1998 , McGwire was spotted with a bottle of androstenedione in his locker by Steve Wilstein of the Associated Press , which he eventually admitted to using. An over-the-counter bodybuilding substance, andro was a type of anabolic steroid that had been banned in other sports, but not yet in baseball. “Everybody that I know in
10744-594: The final show at Winterland , New Year's Eve 1978. With the film came the soundtrack album , which was the band's first studio album. " Gimme Some Lovin' " was a Top 40 hit and the band toured to promote the film. The tour began on June 27, 1980 at Poplar Creek Music Theater . The tour also led to a third album (and second live album), Made in America , recorded at the Universal Amphitheatre in 1980. The track "Who's Making Love" peaked at No 39. It
10880-471: The first major leaguer to ever reach the 40–40 club . Starting with spring training that year, Canseco and McGwire began a ritual of meeting at home plate and banging their massive forearms together with closed fists to briefly form an "X" when either of them hit a home run. Dubbed the Monster Bash, it soon replaced the customary high five as the team's preferred post-homer celebration. The practice
11016-526: The first of several compilations and hits collections issued over the years. A 1998 British CD compilation, The Complete Blues Brothers , exclusively featured The Lamont Cranston Band 's "Excuse Moi Mon Cheri", from the L.A. Briefcase recordings, originally available only as the b-side to the "Soul Man" 45 rpm single. On March 5, 1982, Belushi died in Hollywood of an accidental overdose of heroin and cocaine . After Belushi's death, updated versions of
11152-743: The first player in major league history to hit 30 home runs in each of his first four seasons (1987–1990), and Canseco led the majors in homers for the second time with 44 in 1991 . However, the Athletics finished in fourth place in the AL West in 1991 after having made three straight trips to the World Series. At the trade deadline in 1992 , Oakland traded Canseco to the Texas Rangers for outfielder Rubén Sierra , relief pitcher Jeff Russell , and starting pitcher Bobby Witt . The A's at
11288-563: The first time in a film that the Blues Brothers play with their original keyboardist. The Blues Brothers Musical In 2020, the first Blues Brothers full stage musical premiered in Tauranga, New Zealand. Written and directed by New Zealand writers Gordy Lockhart and Liam Hagan and produced by Tauranga Musical Theatre, Lockhart and Hagan spent years in discussions with Judy Belushi prior to signing an agreement with Belushi and Aykroyd to use Blues Brothers intellectual property. The main task of
11424-576: The first time since 1991, and reached 100 RBI for the first time since 1991. In his last big season, he had 46 home runs, 107 RBI, and 29 stolen bases for the Blue Jays. He became a journeyman designated hitter before retiring in 2002. He fell 38 home runs short of joining the 500 home run club , a milestone he had hoped to reach to bolster his chances of being inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum . Unable to find
11560-599: The game of baseball uses the same stuff I use,” McGwire said. After setting the home run record, he announced that he had stopped using the substance to avoid setting a bad example to young kids. Meanwhile, the locker discovery was written off by the public as the work of a prying reporter. In 2005, Canseco admitted to using steroids in his book Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big , which stated that he and McGwire injected steroids together while with Oakland. The book also accused other prominent players of using steroids. McGwire initially denied
11696-537: The government, and I went to elementary school, high school, and the university in the city. And there was a place on Sussex Drive (Sussex Drive is where the Prime Minister's house is, right below Parliament Hill ), and there was a little club there called Le Hibou, which in French means 'the owl.' And it was run by a gentleman named Harvey Glatt , and he brought every, and I mean every blues star that you or I would ever have wanted to have seen through Ottawa in
11832-402: The inherent difficulty of reporting without political bias. Perception of these values has changed greatly over time as sensationalized ' tabloid journalism ' has risen in popularity. Michael Schudson has argued that before the era of World War I and the concomitant rise of propaganda , journalists were not aware of the concept of bias in reporting , let alone actively correcting for it. News
11968-727: The late '50s, well I guess more late '60s sort of, in around the Newport jazz rediscovery. I was going to Le Hibou and hearing James Cotton , Otis Spann , Pinetop Perkins and Muddy Waters . I actually jammed behind Muddy Waters. S. P. Leary left the drum kit one night, and Muddy said 'anybody out there play drums? I don't have a drummer.' And I walked on stage and we started, I don't know, “ Little Red Rooster ”, something. He said 'keep that beat going, you make Muddy feel good.' And I heard Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett). Many, many times I saw Howlin' Wolf. And of course Buddy Guy , Buddy Guy and Junior Wells , Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee . So I
12104-422: The local paper industry and initiated the limited circulation of news bulletins called jurnals . Beginning in the 1850s and 1860s, the private press began to develop in the multi-religious country of Lebanon. The development of the electrical telegraph , which often travelled along railroad lines, enabled news to travel faster, over longer distances. (Days before Morse's Baltimore–Washington line transmitted
12240-781: The maintenance of political power in a large area. One of the imperial communication channels, called the " Royal Road " traversed the Assyrian Empire and served as a key source of its power. The Roman Empire maintained a vast network of roads, known as cursus publicus , for similar purposes. Visible chains of long-distance signaling, known as optical telegraphy , have also been used throughout history to convey limited types of information. These can have ranged from smoke and fire signals to advanced systems using semaphore codes and telescopes. The latter form of optical telegraph came into use in Japan, Britain, France, and Germany from
12376-527: The major leagues, and batted .300 at each level. In 29 games with Oakland that season , he batted .302 with five home runs (HR) and 13 runs batted in (RBI), and hit a combined 41 home runs with 140 RBI at all levels that year. McGwire played college baseball for the USC Trojans , and set a school record with 32 home runs in his junior year. He played for the United States national team in
12512-695: The market. Specially sanctioned messengers have been recognized in Vietnamese culture , among the Khasi people in India, and in the Fox and Winnebago cultures of the American midwest. The Zulu Kingdom used runners to quickly disseminate news. In West Africa, news can be spread by griots . In most cases, the official spreaders of news have been closely aligned with holders of political power. Town criers were
12648-474: The morale of American forces, Joint Special Forces Operations Command (JSOC), based at Area 56 are at an all-time low. POTUS believes that following five years of arduous preparation far from home, the appalling quality of entertainment at the region's main base to be the core of the issue. His solution? He instructs the Joint Chiefs to find the only musical act that has a hope of raising morale, so saving
12784-653: The motto "Follow the Cable", setting up news outposts across the British Empire in Alexandria (1865), Bombay (1866), Melbourne (1874), Sydney (1874), and Cape Town (1876). In the United States, the Associated Press became a news powerhouse, gaining a lead position through an exclusive arrangement with the Western Union company. The telegraph ushered in a new global communications regime, accompanied by
12920-588: The network took in news from Russia, the Balkans, Italy, Britain, France, and the Netherlands. The German lawyer Christoph von Scheurl and the Fugger house of Augsburg were prominent hubs in this network. Letters describing historically significant events could gain wide circulation as news reports. Indeed, personal correspondence sometimes acted only as a convenient channel through which news could flow across
13056-427: The norms of everyday happenings. War is a common news topic, partly because it involves unknown events that could pose personal danger. Evidence suggests that cultures around the world have found a place for people to share stories about interesting new information. Among Zulus , Mongolians , Polynesians , and American Southerners , anthropologists have documented the practice of questioning travelers for news as
13192-491: The opening act for comedian Steve Martin . Martin later appeared on Saturday Night Live as host, and the Blues Brothers appeared as the musical guest. The Blues Brothers Musical Revue consisted of lead vocalist " Joliet " Jake Blues (Belushi) and his brother, Elwood (Aykroyd), who played a harmonica that he carried onstage in a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. The duo were dressed in matching black suits, black pencil ties, black trilby hats and black sunglasses. The band itself
13328-410: The ordinary. Hence the famous dictum that "Dog Bites Man" is not news, but "Man Bites Dog" is. Another corollary of the newness of news is that, as new technology enables new media to disseminate news more quickly, 'slower' forms of communication may move away from 'news' towards 'analysis'. According to some theories, "news" is whatever the news industry sells. Journalism, broadly understood along
13464-520: The powerhouse combo from Booker T. & the M.G.'s and subsequently almost every hit out of Memphis' Stax Records during the 1960s, were signed as well. Belushi wanted a powerful trumpet player and a hot blues guitarist, so Juilliard -trained trumpeter Alan Rubin was brought in, as was guitarist Matt "Guitar" Murphy , who had performed with many blues legends. For the brothers' look, Belushi borrowed John Lee Hooker 's trademark Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and soul patch . In Stories Behind
13600-657: The public's primary source of news. In the U.S., television was run by the same networks which owned radio: CBS, NBC, and an NBC spin-off called ABC. Edward R. Murrow , who first entered the public ear as a war reporter in London, made the big leap to television to become an iconic newsman on CBS (and later the director of the United States Information Agency). Ted Turner 's creation of the Cable News Network (CNN) in 1980 inaugurated
13736-436: The relationships between them. News conspicuously describes the world in the present or immediate past, even when the most important aspects of a news story have occurred long in the past—or are expected to occur in the future. To make the news, an ongoing process must have some "peg", an event in time that anchors it to the present moment. Relatedly, news often addresses aspects of reality which seem unusual, deviant, or out of
13872-405: The same lines, is the act or occupation of collecting and providing news. From a commercial perspective, news is simply one input, along with paper (or an electronic server) necessary to prepare a final product for distribution. A news agency supplies this resource "wholesale" and publishers enhance it for retail. Most purveyors of news value impartiality, neutrality, and objectivity , despite
14008-489: The sequel film Blues Brothers 2000 . The genesis of the Blues Brothers was a January 17, 1976, Saturday Night Live sketch. In it, " Howard Shore and his All-Bee Band" play the Slim Harpo song " I'm a King Bee ", with Belushi singing and Aykroyd playing harmonica , dressed in the bee costumes they wore for " The Killer Bees " sketches. In 1978, guitarist Arlen Roth was performing on SNL with Art Garfunkel , who
14144-605: The singers he had backed; he also noted that Belushi had, early in his career, briefly been a professional drummer, and had an especially keen sense of rhythm . The Blues Brothers recorded their first album, Briefcase Full of Blues , in 1978 while opening for comedian Steve Martin at Los Angeles ' Universal Amphitheatre . The album reached #1 on the Billboard 200 , went double platinum , and featured Top 40 hit recordings of Sam & Dave 's " Soul Man " and The Chips ' " Rubber Biscuit ". The album liner notes fleshed out
14280-422: The song "Rocket 88". Following tapings of SNL , it was popular among cast members and the weekly hosts to attend Aykroyd's Holland Tunnel Blues bar, which he had rented not long after joining the cast. Aykroyd and Belushi filled a jukebox with songs from Sam & Dave , punk band The Viletones and others. Belushi bought an amplifier and they kept some musical instruments there for anyone who wanted to jam. It
14416-512: The spread of news, even after telecommunications became widely available. The history of the coffee houses is traced from Arab countries, which was introduced in England in the 16th century. In the Muslim world, people have gathered and exchanged news at mosques and other social places. Travelers on pilgrimages to Mecca traditionally stay at caravanserais , roadside inns, along the way, and these places have naturally served as hubs for gaining news of
14552-451: The stadium as well. Costacos Brothers Inc., a poster company, had already planned a photo shoot with the slugging duo for a concept that was originally titled the "Blast Brothers", but the advent of the forearm bashing motivated a change to the "Bash Brothers". While the industry standard at the time was to show action shots of athletes, Costacos Brothers gave their subjects amusing personas matched with catchy slogans. The Bash Brothers poster
14688-436: The strikers). In the US, RCA's Radio Group established its radio network, NBC, in 1926. The Paley family founded CBS soon after. These two networks, which supplied news broadcasts to subsidiaries and affiliates, dominated the airwaves throughout the period of radio's hegemony as a news source. Radio broadcasters in the United States negotiated a similar arrangement with the press in 1933, when they agreed to use only news from
14824-586: The time were 27 games above .500 and leading their division by 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 games, but they had played 34 of 131 games without Canseco, and were seeking to strengthen their pitching. He had homered 231 times with the A's since 1985, and was arguably the biggest celebrity in baseball at the time. However, Canseco had played over 135 games in a season just once since 1988, and his off-the-field antics had drawn criticism as well. After four seasons with Texas and one with Boston , Canseco returned to Oakland in 1997 . The A's had been languishing for three seasons with
14960-478: The time with the Eugene Register-Guard , he said: I was growing sick of rock and roll , it was starting to bore me ... and I hated disco , so I needed some place to go. I hadn't heard much blues before. It felt good. In an interview with Crawdaddy he added: I couldn't stop playing the stuff! I bought hundreds of records and singles ... I walked around playing that shit all
15096-699: The time. And then I knew Danny had played the harp in Canada, and I always could sing, so we created the Blues Brothers. Salgado lent him some albums by Floyd Dixon , Charles Brown , Johnny "Guitar" Watson , and others. Belushi was hooked. In July 2024, John Belushi's Facebook page revealed that Belushi's wife Judith had a prominent role in the development of the Blue Brothers, stating that "Her unwavering dedication and creative genius alongside Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi gave birth to ‘The Blues Brothers." Belushi began to join Salgado on stage, singing
15232-722: The two Blues Brothers characters. Aykroyd modeled Elwood Blues in part on Donnie Walsh, a harmonica player and guitarist, while Belushi's Jake Blues character was modeled after Hock Walsh, Downchild's lead singer, and Curtis Salgado . In their first album, Briefcase Full of Blues (1978), Aykroyd and Belushi featured three well-known Downchild songs closely associated with Hock Walsh's vocal style: "I've Got Everything I Need (Almost)", written by Donnie Walsh, "Shotgun Blues", co-written by Donnie and Hock Walsh, and "Flip, Flop and Fly", co-written and originally popularized by Big Joe Turner . All three songs were on Downchild's second album, Straight Up (1973), with "Flip, Flop and Fly" becoming
15368-627: The voices of Elwood and Jake. To promote Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi and John Goodman performed at the Super Bowl XXXI halftime show , along with ZZ Top and James Brown . The performance was preceded with a faux news report stating the Blues Brothers had escaped custody and were on their way to the Louisiana Superdome . Aykroyd has continued to be an active proponent of blues music and parlayed this avocation into foundation and partial ownership of
15504-738: The wire with little embellishment. In a 20 September 1918 Pravda editorial, Lenin instructed the Soviet press to cut back on their political rambling and produce many short anticapitalist news items in "telegraph style". As in previous eras, the news agencies provided special services to political and business clients, and these services constituted a significant portion of their operations and income. The wire services maintained close relationships with their respective national governments, which provided both press releases and payments. The acceleration and centralization of economic news facilitated regional economic integration and economic globalization . "It
15640-566: The world and developing intergalactic relations. News News is information about current events . This may be provided through many different media : word of mouth , printing , postal systems , broadcasting , electronic communication , or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called " hard news " to differentiate it from soft media . Subject matters for news reports include war , government , politics , education , health , economy , business , fashion , sport , entertainment , and
15776-676: The world regularly. The only original members still in the band are Steve Cropper and Lou Marini . The lead singers are Bobby "Sweet Soul" Harden, Rob "The Honeydripper" Papparozi and Tommy "Pipes" McDonnel. They are occasionally joined by Eddie Floyd . Aykroyd most recently hosted a radio show as his character Elwood Blues on the weekly House of Blues Radio Hour , heard nationwide on the Dial Global Radio Network until 2017. It has now been succeeded by The Sam T. Blues Revue , which airs Wednesday nights on KHBT . In 1980 , The Blues Brothers , directed by John Landis ,
15912-464: The world. In late medieval Britain, reports ("tidings") of major events were a topic of great public interest, as chronicled in Chaucer's 1380 The House of Fame and other works. Before the invention of newspapers in the early 17th century, official government bulletins and edicts were circulated at times in some centralized empires. The first documented use of an organized courier service for
16048-422: The writers was to create a stage show based on a new storyline as complications with rights ownership meant the original movie script could not be adapted for the stage. The result was The Blues Brothers - First Contact. The Blues Brothers - First Contact Show Synopsis Jake and Elwood Blues are conditionally released from Joliet Detention Facility and are conscripted to the US military on direct orders from
16184-658: Was "a very civilized man prepared for a time to face life in the forest, plunging into the wilderness of the New World with his Bible, ax, and newspapers." In France, the Revolution brought forth an abundance of newspapers and a new climate of press freedom, followed by a return to repression under Napoleon. In 1792 the Revolutionaries set up a news ministry called the Bureau d'Esprit . Some newspapers published in
16320-459: Was a battleground of competing telegraphic interests until World War I, after which U.S. interests finally did consolidate their power in the hemisphere. By the turn of the century (i.e., c. 1900 ), Wolff, Havas, and Reuters formed a news cartel, dividing up the global market into three sections, in which each had more-or-less exclusive distribution rights and relationships with national agencies. Each agency's area corresponded roughly to
16456-596: Was at the bar that Aykroyd and Ron Gwynne wrote and developed the story which Aykroyd turned into the draft screenplay for the Blues Brothers movie, better known as the "tome", because it contained so many pages. It was also at the bar that Aykroyd introduced Belushi to the blues . An interest soon became a fascination, and it was not long before the two began singing with local blues bands. Jokingly, SNL band leader Howard Shore suggested they call themselves "The Blues Brothers". In an April 1988, interview he gave to
16592-441: Was carefully constructed, and made up of experienced musicians of the time, including Steve "The Colonel" Cropper , Donald "Duck" Dunn , Matt "Guitar" Murphy , "Blue" Lou Marini , Tom "Bones" Malone , and Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin . In 1978, the band released their debut album, Briefcase Full of Blues , which was a recording of their original appearance with Steve Martin. Several subsequent albums followed. The act opened for
16728-535: Was considered a likely inductee into the Hall of Fame until allegations of his illegal use of steroids . On September 28, 1988, sports columnist Thomas Boswell of The Washington Post appeared as a guest on CBS News Nightwatch and alleged that Canseco, who was on his way to winning the MVP award that season, was "the most conspicuous example of a player who has made himself great with steroids .” Boswell did not print
16864-575: Was even more constant. Consequently, many Europeans read newspapers originating from beyond their national borders—especially from the Dutch Republic , where publishers could evade state censorship. The new United States saw a newspaper boom beginning with the Revolutionary era, accelerated by spirited debates over the establishment of a new government, spurred on by subsidies contained in the 1792 Postal Service Act , and continuing into
17000-545: Was expiring at the end of the season, and he was traded mid-season to the St. Louis Cardinals for pitchers T. J. Mathews , Eric Ludwick , and Blake Stein . Canseco's season was just ordinary, and he signed in the offseason with the Toronto Blue Jays , his fourth team in four years. During their careers with Oakland, Canseco and McGwire combined to hit 617 home runs. With Toronto in 1998, Canseco played in 120 games for
17136-632: Was exposed to all of these players, playing there as part of this scene to service the academic community in Ottawa, a very well-educated community. Had I lived in a different town I don't think that this would have happened, because it was just the confluence of educated government workers, and then also all the colleges in the area, Ottawa University , Carleton, and all the schools—these people were interested in blues culture. The Toronto -based Downchild Blues Band, co-founded in 1969 by two brothers, Donnie and Richard "Hock" Walsh , served as an inspiration for
17272-638: Was handwritten on silk and read by government officials. The court created a Bureau of Official Reports ( Jin Zhouyuan ) to centralize news distribution for the court. Newsletters called ch'ao pao continued to be produced and gained wider public circulation in the following centuries. In 1582 there was the first reference to privately published newssheets in Beijing, during the late Ming dynasty . Japan had effective communications and postal delivery networks at several points in its history, first in 646 with
17408-540: Was mimicked by Little Leaguers , college players , and minor leaguers . It was also performed by the United States national team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in South Korea. At the Oakland Coliseum , T-shirts and banners bore "Let's Bash". The A's marketing department teamed with local San Jose television station KICU-TV to make a song and complementary music video to the tune of " Monster Mash ",
17544-679: Was moved to first base and hit a league-leading 49 home runs, a major-league record for rookies. The two combined for over 200 home runs as Oakland captured the AL pennant in three consecutive seasons from 1988 through 1990 , winning the World Series in 1989 . In 1988, Canseco was unanimously voted the AL Most Valuable Player after batting .307 and leading the majors with 42 home runs and 124 RBI. He also added 40 stolen bases (SB), which combined with his home run total made him
17680-411: Was patterned after characters popularized by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi . Canseco and McGwire were made to look like a bigger and meaner version of The Blues Brothers who were also partial to some yellow in their attire—yellow being an A's team color along with green. Wearing black suits, black shoes, black hats, black sunglasses, yellow socks, yellow shirts, skinny ties, and fedora hats ,
17816-490: Was released. It featured epic car chases involving the Bluesmobile and musical performances by Aretha Franklin , James Brown , Cab Calloway , Ray Charles and John Lee Hooker . The story is set in and around Chicago, Illinois . It is a tale of redemption for the paroled convict Jake Blues and his brother Elwood, who after a visit to Sister Mary Stigmata ( Kathleen Freeman ), otherwise known as "The Penguin" at
17952-412: Was that week's host of the show. Before the actual live show, Belushi and Aykroyd asked Roth and others to join them onstage in the outfits that would later become the Blues Brothers' look. Roth taught Belushi the lyrics to "Rocket 88" so they could perform it that night. This was also discussed on Aykroyd's "Elwood's Bluesmobile" radio show, when Roth was interviewed about his Slide Guitar Summit album, and
18088-667: Was the Electronic Telegraph , published by The Daily Telegraph . A 1994 earthquake in California was one of the first big stories to be reported online in real time. The new availability of web browsing made news sites accessible to more people. On the day of the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995, people flocked to newsgroups and chatrooms to discuss the situation and share information. The Oklahoma City Daily posted news to its site within hours. Two of
18224-459: Was the commercial advantage provided by up-to-date news. In 1556, the government of Venice first published the monthly Notizie scritte , which cost one gazetta . These avvisi were handwritten newsletters and used to convey political, military, and economic news quickly and efficiently to Italian cities (1500–1700)—sharing some characteristics of newspapers though usually not considered true newspapers. Avvisi were sold by subscription under
18360-493: Was the decrease in information costs and the increasing communication speed that stood at the roots of increased market integration, rather than falling transport costs by itself. In order to send goods to another area, merchants needed to know first whether in fact to send off the goods and to what place. Information costs and speed were essential for these decisions." The British Broadcasting Company began transmitting radio news from London in 1922, dependent entirely, by law, on
18496-543: Was the last recording the band would make with Belushi's Jake Blues. Belushi's wife, Judith Jacklin, and his friend, Tino Insana , wrote a book, Blues Brothers: Private , that further fleshed out the Blues Brothers' universe and gave a back story for the first movie. In 1981, Best of the Blues Brothers was released, with a previously unreleased track, a version of The Soul Survivors ' " Expressway to Your Heart ", and alternate live recordings of " Everybody Needs Somebody to Love " and "Rubber Biscuit"; this album would be
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