Source: T-U, Apr 15, 2007, Sunday edition, Metro/Florida section
Writer: Jessie-Lynne Kerr
This article explains about getting an award for journalism and the written media. When I read the article it seemed like the academy awards. The Times-Union and the St. Augustine Record took a total of eight awards. The Florida Times-Union was in the large circulation catagory and the St. Augustine Record in the medium circulation catagory. The competition was 27 newspapers in 14 states. A etched glass trophy and $500 was awarded to each winner. For the names and catagories Check out the article
Nancy Comments:
I think this is a great idea, to acknowledge those that have the ability to write good and interesting articles. I think maybe they could even do it twice a year. Maybe we could figure out and separate the trashy and sensationalizing jerks in this media. Sticking to the facts and writing responsibly, and yet making the story interesting enough to encourage the reader to keep reading. This is something that might encourage a good journalist to strive harder to do a better job.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Monday, April 2, 2007
What is the bottom line here?
Please use this post for April 10, I posted last week and we didn't have to..Prof Blade said it was ok...Thanks...Nancy
Well, look what is going up for sale, the Chicago Tribune. It amazes me, if it is a smooth going newspaper operation, and making money why sell. All I can say is that someone has the brains and perception to know when it's time to get out. The article mentions that there was a long period of time before the bidders came to the table with an offer. What will the paper become (since the real bottom line is money)are we going to see sensationalism, more Nicole Smith stories, is the paper going to turn into a cheap tabloid? The article skims over the fact that subscriptions are on a decline. Then the rest of the article discusses money, money, money. One good idea however was the thought of employee own stock. Maybe that is the boost we need to see a rise in subscriptions. Wonder if they will give the employees an opportunity to participate? This is suppose to be one to the biggest newspapers around, what then is happening to the smaller ones. It just makes me wonder to what extreme are they going to go to, to sell newspapers. Check it out
Nancy's Comments:
The long and short of it is why would someone buy an in trouble newspaper? If they are going to try and turn it around from declining sales..HOW? Will we as readers suffer? We get most of our news from the internet, radio or TV or the new source our friends. I think a lot of us hear the daily news from our friends who are avid news junkies. Since the article was more about covering the finances, might the new Chicago Tribune turn into another Wall Street Journal?
Well, look what is going up for sale, the Chicago Tribune. It amazes me, if it is a smooth going newspaper operation, and making money why sell. All I can say is that someone has the brains and perception to know when it's time to get out. The article mentions that there was a long period of time before the bidders came to the table with an offer. What will the paper become (since the real bottom line is money)are we going to see sensationalism, more Nicole Smith stories, is the paper going to turn into a cheap tabloid? The article skims over the fact that subscriptions are on a decline. Then the rest of the article discusses money, money, money. One good idea however was the thought of employee own stock. Maybe that is the boost we need to see a rise in subscriptions. Wonder if they will give the employees an opportunity to participate? This is suppose to be one to the biggest newspapers around, what then is happening to the smaller ones. It just makes me wonder to what extreme are they going to go to, to sell newspapers. Check it out
Nancy's Comments:
The long and short of it is why would someone buy an in trouble newspaper? If they are going to try and turn it around from declining sales..HOW? Will we as readers suffer? We get most of our news from the internet, radio or TV or the new source our friends. I think a lot of us hear the daily news from our friends who are avid news junkies. Since the article was more about covering the finances, might the new Chicago Tribune turn into another Wall Street Journal?
Monday, March 26, 2007
News media like scaring us !
Title: News media like scaring us
Source: T-U Viewpoint section, Sunday Mar. 25,2007
Writer: John Stossel
Here is an interesting article about the news media in all forms, TV, radio and print. They are using words and half information to scare the living daylights out of us. They are hitting our scare factor beyond what is necessary by overstating or sensationalizing things that deal with our health, food products we eat, pesticides, etc. When writing or speaking of these things they are supporting advocate groups and are not supplying the public with backup information or the other side of the story. They are scaring the general public with words and generate panic. Once again I am sorry, but, my article was not available on the net....so I will hand type it out for you to read.
ARTICLE BELOW:
I'm embarrassed by my profession.
Consumer reporters should warn you about life's important risks, but instead, we mislead you about dubious risks.
I started thinking about this when interviewing Ralph Nader years ago, before he stopped speaking to me. Nader worried about almost everything.
Food? "It can spoil in your own refregerator."
Chicken? "It's contaminated with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides."
Flying? "Inadequate maintenance."
Cartpet? "Rugs are dirt collectors. And dirt collectors mean internal, indoor air pollution."
Coffee? "Caffeine is not very good for you."
He went on and on. Just interviewing him was exhausting. Nader and interest groups like his fuel the Fear Industrial Complex? The network of activists, government bureaucrats, and trial lawyers who profit by scaring people.
The media should be skeptical of their prophesies of doom, but we rarely are.
My TV program, 20/20, has done frightening reports on the dangers of paper shredders, soccer goals, lawn chemicals, cell phones, garage-door openers and more.
There's always some truth behind the scares - someone got hurt, or some study somewhere found a risk.
But we rarely put the danger in perspective. We give you a breathless rush of alarm over every possibility, often delivered with a throbbing rock beat.
Sometimes we don't even get the nubmers right. Remember the summer of the shark? It was nonsense. That summer the number of shark attacks was hardly different from two previous years. But in those other years we had an election to cover, or O.J. was on trial. Mid-summer 2001 didn't bring many sexy stories, so Time did a cover story on "the Summer of the Shark."
It should have embarrassed the media into putting risks in perspective. But it didn't.
Listening to us, you'd think our growing exposure to pesticides, food additives and other mysterious chemicals has created America's "cancer epidemic." But there is no cancer epidemic - cancer incidence is flat, and death rates have been falling for years. But such good news doesn't get much play. No interest groups benefit from it.
Remember the breast-implant scare? Some lawyers and activists said silicone from breast implants caused lupus, breast cancer and more. Connie Chung did a scare story on CBS, the FDA banned silicone implants, and soon many women were certain that their medical problems were caused by their implants.
How could they not think that? The Fear Industrial Complex told them they were being slowly poisoned. Lawyer John O'Quinn helped spread the fear and reaped the reward. He sued implant makers again and again until they paid his clients over $1 billion. Fortune called O'Qunn and his partner "lawyers from hell." O'Quinn won't say how much money he made from these lawsuits, but he's now rich enough to have a warehouse that holds 900 valuable cars.
After the suits from O'Quinn and others bankrupted implant maker Dow Corning, and after many women were terrorized, scientists started saying there's no evidence that silicone causes autoimmune disease and cancer. Study after study failed to find a link.
Sherine Gabriel, chair of the department of health sciences research at the Mayo Clinic, announces that there was "no significant difference in the occurrence of connective tissue diseases between the women who had the implants and the women who did not."
The FDA has now re-approved silicone implants, and thousnands of women are having implants inserted, implants that contain the very same silicone that was used before.
So has O'Quinn apologized for scaring women and bankrupting Dow Corning? No. Did he give the money back? Of course not. The lawyers never do. Instead, O'Quinn impugns the authors of the medical studies. "Who bought and paid for that science?" he said to me, indignantly. He told me he's prond to sue rich businessmen.
Reporters rely on lawyers like O'Quinn bureaucracies like the FDA and interest groups like Nader's to give us safety warnings and "dirt" on evil companies. We should be more skeptical.
The Fear Industrial Complex has motives of its own.
Nancy's Comment:
This is terrible, but all most of us are capable of is being too gullible. We either read about it or hear about it on the radio or TV. Unless we are part of the health or food industry we aren't all that knowledgeable about these scares, but many readers and listeners get panicky and go to extremes to avoid them. I think we tend to have to much faith in the media reporting. Many of us probably feel that surely there has been enough research, before reporting scares to the general public. And of course when we finally do get answers, we start to lose faith, but in who? I think according to this story it should be in those that give us our daily news, and I agree with the writer of this article....Shame on them. But who are we to believe and how much of what we are told should we believe...Some day all that sensationalism might kill us all....Your comments please.
Source: T-U Viewpoint section, Sunday Mar. 25,2007
Writer: John Stossel
Here is an interesting article about the news media in all forms, TV, radio and print. They are using words and half information to scare the living daylights out of us. They are hitting our scare factor beyond what is necessary by overstating or sensationalizing things that deal with our health, food products we eat, pesticides, etc. When writing or speaking of these things they are supporting advocate groups and are not supplying the public with backup information or the other side of the story. They are scaring the general public with words and generate panic. Once again I am sorry, but, my article was not available on the net....so I will hand type it out for you to read.
ARTICLE BELOW:
I'm embarrassed by my profession.
Consumer reporters should warn you about life's important risks, but instead, we mislead you about dubious risks.
I started thinking about this when interviewing Ralph Nader years ago, before he stopped speaking to me. Nader worried about almost everything.
Food? "It can spoil in your own refregerator."
Chicken? "It's contaminated with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides."
Flying? "Inadequate maintenance."
Cartpet? "Rugs are dirt collectors. And dirt collectors mean internal, indoor air pollution."
Coffee? "Caffeine is not very good for you."
He went on and on. Just interviewing him was exhausting. Nader and interest groups like his fuel the Fear Industrial Complex? The network of activists, government bureaucrats, and trial lawyers who profit by scaring people.
The media should be skeptical of their prophesies of doom, but we rarely are.
My TV program, 20/20, has done frightening reports on the dangers of paper shredders, soccer goals, lawn chemicals, cell phones, garage-door openers and more.
There's always some truth behind the scares - someone got hurt, or some study somewhere found a risk.
But we rarely put the danger in perspective. We give you a breathless rush of alarm over every possibility, often delivered with a throbbing rock beat.
Sometimes we don't even get the nubmers right. Remember the summer of the shark? It was nonsense. That summer the number of shark attacks was hardly different from two previous years. But in those other years we had an election to cover, or O.J. was on trial. Mid-summer 2001 didn't bring many sexy stories, so Time did a cover story on "the Summer of the Shark."
It should have embarrassed the media into putting risks in perspective. But it didn't.
Listening to us, you'd think our growing exposure to pesticides, food additives and other mysterious chemicals has created America's "cancer epidemic." But there is no cancer epidemic - cancer incidence is flat, and death rates have been falling for years. But such good news doesn't get much play. No interest groups benefit from it.
Remember the breast-implant scare? Some lawyers and activists said silicone from breast implants caused lupus, breast cancer and more. Connie Chung did a scare story on CBS, the FDA banned silicone implants, and soon many women were certain that their medical problems were caused by their implants.
How could they not think that? The Fear Industrial Complex told them they were being slowly poisoned. Lawyer John O'Quinn helped spread the fear and reaped the reward. He sued implant makers again and again until they paid his clients over $1 billion. Fortune called O'Qunn and his partner "lawyers from hell." O'Quinn won't say how much money he made from these lawsuits, but he's now rich enough to have a warehouse that holds 900 valuable cars.
After the suits from O'Quinn and others bankrupted implant maker Dow Corning, and after many women were terrorized, scientists started saying there's no evidence that silicone causes autoimmune disease and cancer. Study after study failed to find a link.
Sherine Gabriel, chair of the department of health sciences research at the Mayo Clinic, announces that there was "no significant difference in the occurrence of connective tissue diseases between the women who had the implants and the women who did not."
The FDA has now re-approved silicone implants, and thousnands of women are having implants inserted, implants that contain the very same silicone that was used before.
So has O'Quinn apologized for scaring women and bankrupting Dow Corning? No. Did he give the money back? Of course not. The lawyers never do. Instead, O'Quinn impugns the authors of the medical studies. "Who bought and paid for that science?" he said to me, indignantly. He told me he's prond to sue rich businessmen.
Reporters rely on lawyers like O'Quinn bureaucracies like the FDA and interest groups like Nader's to give us safety warnings and "dirt" on evil companies. We should be more skeptical.
The Fear Industrial Complex has motives of its own.
Nancy's Comment:
This is terrible, but all most of us are capable of is being too gullible. We either read about it or hear about it on the radio or TV. Unless we are part of the health or food industry we aren't all that knowledgeable about these scares, but many readers and listeners get panicky and go to extremes to avoid them. I think we tend to have to much faith in the media reporting. Many of us probably feel that surely there has been enough research, before reporting scares to the general public. And of course when we finally do get answers, we start to lose faith, but in who? I think according to this story it should be in those that give us our daily news, and I agree with the writer of this article....Shame on them. But who are we to believe and how much of what we are told should we believe...Some day all that sensationalism might kill us all....Your comments please.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
What do they look like?
This article comes from last week's Sunday edition of the T-U edition.
The article was, I think from the entertainment section. The heading said Journalists are great. but let's get real..
The article was about a new movie release call Zodiac in which Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr.play two journalists bent on cracking the case of the Zodiac a whacked out serial killer. They are dressed in jackets and ties and seem to have a more conformed formal appearance. This is just a movie, they seem like they want to protray jounalists in a conservative way. Is this the idea of how given the way the press and movie people want to protray them and we should except this idea. Since this article was not available for linkage to my blog, let me rewrite it for you.
In the new flick zZodfiac(just released on Friday). mega cuties Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. play two journalist bent on cracking the case of the Zodiac, a whacked-out serial killer from the 1960's.
While us folks onin the newspaper bix are equally courageous and morally righteous. I'm gonna level with you : Journalists don't look like that. If we did, we'd be America's next top models--or hosts of our own shopping show on VC.
This Hollywood warp isn't journalish-specific, however don't most doctors look more like McCrabby rather that McDreamy?
Nancy Comment: So what do you think a journalist looks like. Is he/she wearing blue jeans and sunglasses. Does his upbringing and neighborhood have influences on his style of writing. Does life's experiences play a part of his writing or his interests. I think journalists write on be half of their background and experiences personal or professional. So how do you imagine the journalist that writes a story or column. Does his story satisfy or interest you, and if it does, you might wonder why. If you had to describe him/her by the column or story you just read, what would they look like and what are their morals. Are they a Harvard graduate or did they graduate FCCJ. Does their background affect their writing. Are they biased in any way? And one last question...Why do the movies portray them as well-dressed, suit and tie people. Is this acceptable, or is this the way we want to see them portrayed. I really want to see some comments on this one....had me baffled.....
The article was, I think from the entertainment section. The heading said Journalists are great. but let's get real..
The article was about a new movie release call Zodiac in which Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr.play two journalists bent on cracking the case of the Zodiac a whacked out serial killer. They are dressed in jackets and ties and seem to have a more conformed formal appearance. This is just a movie, they seem like they want to protray jounalists in a conservative way. Is this the idea of how given the way the press and movie people want to protray them and we should except this idea. Since this article was not available for linkage to my blog, let me rewrite it for you.
In the new flick zZodfiac(just released on Friday). mega cuties Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. play two journalist bent on cracking the case of the Zodiac, a whacked-out serial killer from the 1960's.
While us folks onin the newspaper bix are equally courageous and morally righteous. I'm gonna level with you : Journalists don't look like that. If we did, we'd be America's next top models--or hosts of our own shopping show on VC.
This Hollywood warp isn't journalish-specific, however don't most doctors look more like McCrabby rather that McDreamy?
Nancy Comment: So what do you think a journalist looks like. Is he/she wearing blue jeans and sunglasses. Does his upbringing and neighborhood have influences on his style of writing. Does life's experiences play a part of his writing or his interests. I think journalists write on be half of their background and experiences personal or professional. So how do you imagine the journalist that writes a story or column. Does his story satisfy or interest you, and if it does, you might wonder why. If you had to describe him/her by the column or story you just read, what would they look like and what are their morals. Are they a Harvard graduate or did they graduate FCCJ. Does their background affect their writing. Are they biased in any way? And one last question...Why do the movies portray them as well-dressed, suit and tie people. Is this acceptable, or is this the way we want to see them portrayed. I really want to see some comments on this one....had me baffled.....
Monday, March 5, 2007
How readers interpret writers new stories
Writer: Wayne Ezell
Source: Sunday T-U Mar 4, Viewpoint section
I found this article in the Sunday newspaper about the reaction to a news article that upset a lot of readers. It was about mis-interpreting a story about the American people learning to speak Spanish as a second language. The article explained further that some local companies were providing Spanish classes for employees, and some adults were signing up at FCCJ for Spanish classes. Readers were upset by this article saying that if you come to American as a spanish speaking you should go to class to learn English, our official language. It explained that people are learning Spanish to better communicate customers. What the writer wrote and the point he was expressing didn't seem to come across to his readers. (PLEASE NOTE: there are three different articles in this one article, I am blogging on the first one) To get you opinion on the article click here
Nancy Comment:
I think this must happen a lot. As the world changes and more people are affected they the changes they have more opinions and are more outspoken about them. I think these newspaper writers need to re-read their articles more carefully and maybe consider writing other sides to the story. He mig;ht have mentioned the fact that Spanish speaking people moving to our country might take English classes to better understand Americans.
Source: Sunday T-U Mar 4, Viewpoint section
I found this article in the Sunday newspaper about the reaction to a news article that upset a lot of readers. It was about mis-interpreting a story about the American people learning to speak Spanish as a second language. The article explained further that some local companies were providing Spanish classes for employees, and some adults were signing up at FCCJ for Spanish classes. Readers were upset by this article saying that if you come to American as a spanish speaking you should go to class to learn English, our official language. It explained that people are learning Spanish to better communicate customers. What the writer wrote and the point he was expressing didn't seem to come across to his readers. (PLEASE NOTE: there are three different articles in this one article, I am blogging on the first one) To get you opinion on the article click here
Nancy Comment:
I think this must happen a lot. As the world changes and more people are affected they the changes they have more opinions and are more outspoken about them. I think these newspaper writers need to re-read their articles more carefully and maybe consider writing other sides to the story. He mig;ht have mentioned the fact that Spanish speaking people moving to our country might take English classes to better understand Americans.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Can your local newspaper attach a name to you?
Title: Stinky spy: Trash bins as monitor
Writer: Liz Ruskin
Source: T-U Sunday edition, World section, Sunday Feb 25
I read this article and was fancinated and stunned at the same time. This article takes place in London. From what I understand the British do a lot of serviellance, but this took the cake and icing too. The are putting microchips in the trash bins, and using a flimsy excuse of monitoring collections and boosting the national recycling rate. Resding down further, London is one of the lowest in the country. They are trying to be sports about this by saying that big brother has gone too far. Their newspaper has attached the name Bin Brother to the situation, and headlines read "Germans Plant Bugs in our Wheelie Bins" referring to their trash bins. I am sorry that the T-U didn't put this article on line so I couldn't link it. Therefore I decided to type out the article for you because I found it that interesting. See article below:
LONDON -- The British tolerate millions of surveillance cameras watching their every public move. They agreed to let roadside cameras record their vehicular movements and store the information for two years. But when they discovered that their garbage is being bugged, they howled that Big Brother had gone too far.
Local governments have attached microchips to about 500,000 "wheelie bins," the trash cans that residents wheel to the curb for collection. The aim, they say, is to help monitor collections and boost the national recycling rate, now among the lowest in Europe.
The public has reacted with suspicion and fury.
"Germans Plant Bugs in Our Wheelie Bins," a Daily Mail healine announced in August. Two of the bin manufacturers are German. Newspaper letter writers have taken to calling it "Bin Brother."
A member of Parliament from London's Croydon neighborhood denounced the chip as "the spy in you bin."
"The Stasi or the KGB could never have dreamed of getting a spying device in every household," said Andrew Pelling, a Conservative, referring to the former East German and Soviet spy agencies.
Small-scale revolts have erupted across the United Kingdom for months as the technology has spread. Some towns failed to mention the feature.
In Bournemouth, Cyril Baker, 72, ripped the chip off his new bin, then went on national TV to show how he did it. Thousands of his neighbors followed suit.
"It was a very emotional issue," he said.
Nancy's Comments: I couldn't believe this article. I need not say more. The feeling I would get, being monitored constantly. That is a scary thought. Then there is the fact that the press could destroy you reputation by labeling you. Let's say you or one of you family was accused of being a murderer or kidnapper, and was labeled by a newspaper by giving you an offensive name. Then maybe 5 years later you were found innocent. That stigma would follow all of your life. I would guess that the paper would appologize, but the stigma would stay. Somehow I don't think that labeling should be allowed. I need to explain that the mention of the Germans was because a German manufacturer made the trash bins. This article amazed me. We Americans are complaining that we are vulnerable to highway camera's peeking at our driving. Let's hope we are not invaded by the invasion of our privacy with microchips any time soon. Please let me know how you feel...
Writer: Liz Ruskin
Source: T-U Sunday edition, World section, Sunday Feb 25
I read this article and was fancinated and stunned at the same time. This article takes place in London. From what I understand the British do a lot of serviellance, but this took the cake and icing too. The are putting microchips in the trash bins, and using a flimsy excuse of monitoring collections and boosting the national recycling rate. Resding down further, London is one of the lowest in the country. They are trying to be sports about this by saying that big brother has gone too far. Their newspaper has attached the name Bin Brother to the situation, and headlines read "Germans Plant Bugs in our Wheelie Bins" referring to their trash bins. I am sorry that the T-U didn't put this article on line so I couldn't link it. Therefore I decided to type out the article for you because I found it that interesting. See article below:
LONDON -- The British tolerate millions of surveillance cameras watching their every public move. They agreed to let roadside cameras record their vehicular movements and store the information for two years. But when they discovered that their garbage is being bugged, they howled that Big Brother had gone too far.
Local governments have attached microchips to about 500,000 "wheelie bins," the trash cans that residents wheel to the curb for collection. The aim, they say, is to help monitor collections and boost the national recycling rate, now among the lowest in Europe.
The public has reacted with suspicion and fury.
"Germans Plant Bugs in Our Wheelie Bins," a Daily Mail healine announced in August. Two of the bin manufacturers are German. Newspaper letter writers have taken to calling it "Bin Brother."
A member of Parliament from London's Croydon neighborhood denounced the chip as "the spy in you bin."
"The Stasi or the KGB could never have dreamed of getting a spying device in every household," said Andrew Pelling, a Conservative, referring to the former East German and Soviet spy agencies.
Small-scale revolts have erupted across the United Kingdom for months as the technology has spread. Some towns failed to mention the feature.
In Bournemouth, Cyril Baker, 72, ripped the chip off his new bin, then went on national TV to show how he did it. Thousands of his neighbors followed suit.
"It was a very emotional issue," he said.
Nancy's Comments: I couldn't believe this article. I need not say more. The feeling I would get, being monitored constantly. That is a scary thought. Then there is the fact that the press could destroy you reputation by labeling you. Let's say you or one of you family was accused of being a murderer or kidnapper, and was labeled by a newspaper by giving you an offensive name. Then maybe 5 years later you were found innocent. That stigma would follow all of your life. I would guess that the paper would appologize, but the stigma would stay. Somehow I don't think that labeling should be allowed. I need to explain that the mention of the Germans was because a German manufacturer made the trash bins. This article amazed me. We Americans are complaining that we are vulnerable to highway camera's peeking at our driving. Let's hope we are not invaded by the invasion of our privacy with microchips any time soon. Please let me know how you feel...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Digging for the truth
I almost passed up this article. This is a story about a lawsuit and what further probing by the Times-Union writers did to aide with more information and facts about the lawsuit implications. They got information from the St. Johns River Community College. They are also withholding other information from the public whereas protecting more harrassment suits from other employees. Check this check this An employee said she was groped by the president of the college of which he has been in that post for some 34 years. The employee felt she had no future at the college as long as the president was still employed there. She claimed that he intimated her by telling her he had control over her future. He still remains in his position. She was awarded $40,000 after asking for $300,000.
This is so interesting because the Times-Union did such a great job of exposing records of the president. He didn't have a past record of any such decrepencies. Of course neither did the woman in question of the allegations. The Times-Union in this case seems to be doing an excellent job of delving into the public records and reporting the facts. On the other hand they are withholding news that could harm the repetition of others from further law suits. I am beginning to wonder about the honest and sincerity of the Times-Unions and it's reporters. In this story I really want to give them the credit they deserve. It was great reporting and judgement that they used. 'bout time........
This is so interesting because the Times-Union did such a great job of exposing records of the president. He didn't have a past record of any such decrepencies. Of course neither did the woman in question of the allegations. The Times-Union in this case seems to be doing an excellent job of delving into the public records and reporting the facts. On the other hand they are withholding news that could harm the repetition of others from further law suits. I am beginning to wonder about the honest and sincerity of the Times-Unions and it's reporters. In this story I really want to give them the credit they deserve. It was great reporting and judgement that they used. 'bout time........
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Survey
I found this article interesting because it wasn't exactly an article. It was asking for your memories, photo's and thoughts about those in the military that served aboard the USS John F. Kennedy. They seem to be using the excuse that because it is being decommissioned in March. They are asking YOU to come up with stories.
Nancy Comments: I just couldn't help myself...considering the college course I am taking...to respond to this article. This is pitiful...the news writer or writers...are they tooo lazy to go look for stories...or are they looking for some kind of sensationalism to blow up into a 2 or 3 week story at someone's expense...I hope not...so many have lost loved ones during the wars of the past...why drag this up and rehash people's sorrows...by recreating or reventing them. If their only goal is to celebrate the hero's of yester year...fine...I don't think this is a good idea...applauding hero's...that is fine....but dragging up losses and difficult memories of loved ones long gone....awful....please let me hear your opinions...just click here and let me know how you feel
Nancy Comments: I just couldn't help myself...considering the college course I am taking...to respond to this article. This is pitiful...the news writer or writers...are they tooo lazy to go look for stories...or are they looking for some kind of sensationalism to blow up into a 2 or 3 week story at someone's expense...I hope not...so many have lost loved ones during the wars of the past...why drag this up and rehash people's sorrows...by recreating or reventing them. If their only goal is to celebrate the hero's of yester year...fine...I don't think this is a good idea...applauding hero's...that is fine....but dragging up losses and difficult memories of loved ones long gone....awful....please let me hear your opinions...just click here and let me know how you feel
Monday, February 5, 2007
Crime Clues
Title: Websites host wealth of crime-solving clues.
Writer: Martin Kasindort
Source: USA Today
People use the internet I think mostly for information, new ideas and other forms of information Read this This was an interesting story to say the least. A dermatologist was found slain in the office. His family decided not to only depend on the police investigation to find his murderer, they took it upon themselves to turn to the internet and post a picture of the suspect on MySpace which was caught on a surveillance camera in the building. The article mentions that doing this is almost equivalent to putting out wanted posters. The police turned up with practically nothing while the family received more than 40,000 hits. The killer is still at large, but the more exposure, the more results.
Nancy's Comment:
I think this is a great idea, but it makes me wonder why do the general public have to go to all the trouble of doing it themselves. The police have more access to criminal files and pictures to make matches. I understand that the police department uses the net to find sex offenders....What about the common murderer....if he is running around loose...why not look for him too. I am sure there are a lot of strange replies to internet posts, and people that are looking for money, that they would turn their grandma in. But I am glad to see that we are moving forward in solving crime. You just can't get faster info than on the net....
Writer: Martin Kasindort
Source: USA Today
People use the internet I think mostly for information, new ideas and other forms of information Read this This was an interesting story to say the least. A dermatologist was found slain in the office. His family decided not to only depend on the police investigation to find his murderer, they took it upon themselves to turn to the internet and post a picture of the suspect on MySpace which was caught on a surveillance camera in the building. The article mentions that doing this is almost equivalent to putting out wanted posters. The police turned up with practically nothing while the family received more than 40,000 hits. The killer is still at large, but the more exposure, the more results.
Nancy's Comment:
I think this is a great idea, but it makes me wonder why do the general public have to go to all the trouble of doing it themselves. The police have more access to criminal files and pictures to make matches. I understand that the police department uses the net to find sex offenders....What about the common murderer....if he is running around loose...why not look for him too. I am sure there are a lot of strange replies to internet posts, and people that are looking for money, that they would turn their grandma in. But I am glad to see that we are moving forward in solving crime. You just can't get faster info than on the net....
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Title:Judge dismisses lawsuit in Taser death
Writer: Paul Pinkham
I remember when this incident first happened. It apparently is or was in the hands of the courts. Reading this article was confusing, the writer seemed to be more interested in the personal feud with his law partner and gave little focus on his client. The court system usually makes records public and yet the lawyer seem to have more personal problems than his client. Check out the story here.
Nancy comments: I think the writer didn't know which story to work on. He could have given us more information on the Taser situation...or discussed the lawyers problems...he could have gotten 2 stories out of the deal. Why didn't he research the public records....
Writer: Paul Pinkham
I remember when this incident first happened. It apparently is or was in the hands of the courts. Reading this article was confusing, the writer seemed to be more interested in the personal feud with his law partner and gave little focus on his client. The court system usually makes records public and yet the lawyer seem to have more personal problems than his client. Check out the story here.
Nancy comments: I think the writer didn't know which story to work on. He could have given us more information on the Taser situation...or discussed the lawyers problems...he could have gotten 2 stories out of the deal. Why didn't he research the public records....
Monday, January 22, 2007
Isn't it romantic
Writer: m. C. Finotti
Source: Times-Union/Lifestyle
Date: Sunday January 21, 2007
Title: I do, I do
Yo ho, Yo ho! A Pirate's life for them
This article was adorable, it was about a novelty wedding in Fernandina Beach. "When Eric Childers and his girlfriend, Robin Rafloski decided to marry" she gave him full reign on planning the wedding. He was very resourceful and did it with flare. He decided to do a pirate theme and had the wedding party dressed appropriately, but the bride came in normal formal dress. The big thing that made this sorry so interesting was the fact that they were both about middle aged. They continued the ceremony in pirate fashion with skull and crossbones, maps for invitations, swords, tiki torches and Jolly Rogers flags. If you think you want to check it all out. Click A spread in the newspaper certainly beats just a simple little announcement.
Nancy's Comment: How often do you hear about middle aged people preparing to get married in such a fashion...this kind of novelty wedding makes news and especially when the groom get to do all the planning. It seems to put the romance back into marriage. More amazing they both had been previously married more than once...actually a few times....and yet that didn't discourage them....I think they did it up right....I really do think that romance is still alive at any age.....You just have to find it....
Source: Times-Union/Lifestyle
Date: Sunday January 21, 2007
Title: I do, I do
Yo ho, Yo ho! A Pirate's life for them
This article was adorable, it was about a novelty wedding in Fernandina Beach. "When Eric Childers and his girlfriend, Robin Rafloski decided to marry" she gave him full reign on planning the wedding. He was very resourceful and did it with flare. He decided to do a pirate theme and had the wedding party dressed appropriately, but the bride came in normal formal dress. The big thing that made this sorry so interesting was the fact that they were both about middle aged. They continued the ceremony in pirate fashion with skull and crossbones, maps for invitations, swords, tiki torches and Jolly Rogers flags. If you think you want to check it all out. Click A spread in the newspaper certainly beats just a simple little announcement.
Nancy's Comment: How often do you hear about middle aged people preparing to get married in such a fashion...this kind of novelty wedding makes news and especially when the groom get to do all the planning. It seems to put the romance back into marriage. More amazing they both had been previously married more than once...actually a few times....and yet that didn't discourage them....I think they did it up right....I really do think that romance is still alive at any age.....You just have to find it....
Let's all smell good
Writer: Molly moore
Source: Times-Union/World/pg A19
Date: Sunday January 21 2007
Title: Marie Antoinette fragrance re-created
This article is about a Marie Antoinette newly re-created perfume. It explained that research by historian and professor, Elisabeth do Feydeau at eh Versailles School of Perfumes had discovered the recipes of her fragrances. My understanding that there were only ten, eight and a half ounce crystal bottles of this probably one of a kind fragrances produced selling for a hefty $10,500 each and five have already been sold. If your wallet can't afford that, there are also one that is slightly under one ounce for a mere $450.. The proceeds for this outrageous retail price is said to be going for the purchase of her wood traveling case from a private collector that is asking about half a million.
Nancy's comment: This is absolutely ridiculiou...$10.500 for a bottle of perfume make form flowers that I wouldn't be surprised that you could go pick yourself. Fame seems to be profitable, but not if you are one of the poor working class who is enticed by all the advertising hype suggesting that this famous person uses it or wears it. My gripe here is that a drop or a spritz of perfume latst...what...2 maybe 3 hours then it's gone. What a waste of good money. One would have to be so gullible to want to spend so much money (even the very wealthy) on this perfume, no matter what famous person wore it. For what that 8.5 ox. costs... you could keep a family of 4 in groceries or clothes for a year. With our economy as it is today ...that is ridiculous. I am wondering maybe the media is trying to portray it as an historical event..I think that Marie Antionette should stay back in the history books along with her perfume recipes....then we can sit back and read about her and save our money....
Source: Times-Union/World/pg A19
Date: Sunday January 21 2007
Title: Marie Antoinette fragrance re-created
This article is about a Marie Antoinette newly re-created perfume. It explained that research by historian and professor, Elisabeth do Feydeau at eh Versailles School of Perfumes had discovered the recipes of her fragrances. My understanding that there were only ten, eight and a half ounce crystal bottles of this probably one of a kind fragrances produced selling for a hefty $10,500 each and five have already been sold. If your wallet can't afford that, there are also one that is slightly under one ounce for a mere $450.. The proceeds for this outrageous retail price is said to be going for the purchase of her wood traveling case from a private collector that is asking about half a million.
Nancy's comment: This is absolutely ridiculiou...$10.500 for a bottle of perfume make form flowers that I wouldn't be surprised that you could go pick yourself. Fame seems to be profitable, but not if you are one of the poor working class who is enticed by all the advertising hype suggesting that this famous person uses it or wears it. My gripe here is that a drop or a spritz of perfume latst...what...2 maybe 3 hours then it's gone. What a waste of good money. One would have to be so gullible to want to spend so much money (even the very wealthy) on this perfume, no matter what famous person wore it. For what that 8.5 ox. costs... you could keep a family of 4 in groceries or clothes for a year. With our economy as it is today ...that is ridiculous. I am wondering maybe the media is trying to portray it as an historical event..I think that Marie Antionette should stay back in the history books along with her perfume recipes....then we can sit back and read about her and save our money....
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Immersed in new kitchen adventures
Article: Immersed in new kitchen adventures
Writer: Dan Macdonald
Date: 1/11/07
Source: Times-Union/Taste, page 1
This article seems to contain a little bit of everything. I found the writer hinting about wanting an immersible blender for Christmas, making a sales pitch for someone's book with listed price, and Mr. Macdonald even manage to squeeze in some recipes and party suggestions. The column took on an idea that the writer was your own personal pen pal with thoughts of the day.
Nancy's Comments: This one was a doozie...I couldn't resist checking it out. The writer Dan apparently put part of his Christmas list in his column suggesting that an immersible blender would be nice. He was handing out recipes and party tips too. He still found time and space to suggest a book- including retail price. How nice !! He seems like a good friend to have if you need some free advertising. Seems like good old pen pal Dan could be called a jack of all trades and master of none.....well at least in the kitchen... and by the way...he got his immersible blender for Christmas ....from his wife. He also mentioned in his column that....he surprised to find out....just how many people read his column.....which seems like a thoughtless remark......they surely wouldn't pay him to write a column if nobody wanted to read it...... Anyone wanna share a recipe ????
Writer: Dan Macdonald
Date: 1/11/07
Source: Times-Union/Taste, page 1
This article seems to contain a little bit of everything. I found the writer hinting about wanting an immersible blender for Christmas, making a sales pitch for someone's book with listed price, and Mr. Macdonald even manage to squeeze in some recipes and party suggestions. The column took on an idea that the writer was your own personal pen pal with thoughts of the day.
Nancy's Comments: This one was a doozie...I couldn't resist checking it out. The writer Dan apparently put part of his Christmas list in his column suggesting that an immersible blender would be nice. He was handing out recipes and party tips too. He still found time and space to suggest a book- including retail price. How nice !! He seems like a good friend to have if you need some free advertising. Seems like good old pen pal Dan could be called a jack of all trades and master of none.....well at least in the kitchen... and by the way...he got his immersible blender for Christmas ....from his wife. He also mentioned in his column that....he surprised to find out....just how many people read his column.....which seems like a thoughtless remark......they surely wouldn't pay him to write a column if nobody wanted to read it...... Anyone wanna share a recipe ????
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Disney Story
Article: She saw it all at Disney, and drew much of it
Author: Susan D. Brandenburg
Date: January 10, 2007
Source: The Florida Times Union/River City News/Arlington Ed.
Comments by Nancy:
This is a story about Cecilia Washington and how she hand painted Jiminy Cricket and also hand painted all the Mickey Mouse Club Mousketeers jackets of Disney characters. Mrs. Washington also has donated her talents to "Give Kids the World" in Orlando. Recently she found Michael there as a request from a terminal child, and he was very complementary of her work. It turns out that she is from Jacksonville, FL., and still resides here after some 40 years, working for the Disney Corporation (company).
Nancy's Opinion: The writer Susan Brandenburg seemed to me to go on and on....and the story got a little boring. Susan had all the facts and I am sure that they are accurate. We, and I include myself... are well aware of Disney's beyond belief creative ability. The story is indeed a form of media... but the media is so aware of the Disney idea and the talent that produces it's products....that we don't need to overdo the fact that Disney would find someone as capable as Mrs. Washington to do something this creative for them. This is a news medium that Mrs. Washington was hired for...advertising.....and she did her job very well. My comment about Mrs. Washington...is she did a fantastic job. However, the news reporter Susan....made the story boring (even though it involved Michael Jackson and the fact that terminal children were gettng their wishes)... It read like....home town girl makes big splash at Disney. I love Disney and am practically a fanatic about the place. I didn't find this story every exciting.....again ....just a story about a hometown girl who makes good....the fact that she is from our hometown is where the interest lies. All an imagineering ideas...........................N A N C Y..........
Author: Susan D. Brandenburg
Date: January 10, 2007
Source: The Florida Times Union/River City News/Arlington Ed.
Comments by Nancy:
This is a story about Cecilia Washington and how she hand painted Jiminy Cricket and also hand painted all the Mickey Mouse Club Mousketeers jackets of Disney characters. Mrs. Washington also has donated her talents to "Give Kids the World" in Orlando. Recently she found Michael there as a request from a terminal child, and he was very complementary of her work. It turns out that she is from Jacksonville, FL., and still resides here after some 40 years, working for the Disney Corporation (company).
Nancy's Opinion: The writer Susan Brandenburg seemed to me to go on and on....and the story got a little boring. Susan had all the facts and I am sure that they are accurate. We, and I include myself... are well aware of Disney's beyond belief creative ability. The story is indeed a form of media... but the media is so aware of the Disney idea and the talent that produces it's products....that we don't need to overdo the fact that Disney would find someone as capable as Mrs. Washington to do something this creative for them. This is a news medium that Mrs. Washington was hired for...advertising.....and she did her job very well. My comment about Mrs. Washington...is she did a fantastic job. However, the news reporter Susan....made the story boring (even though it involved Michael Jackson and the fact that terminal children were gettng their wishes)... It read like....home town girl makes big splash at Disney. I love Disney and am practically a fanatic about the place. I didn't find this story every exciting.....again ....just a story about a hometown girl who makes good....the fact that she is from our hometown is where the interest lies. All an imagineering ideas...........................N A N C Y..........
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