Williams $82,500 Fine Over The Top?
Posted on November 30, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
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Eleven-time singles Grand Slam champion, Serena Williams, has been fined $82,500 for her verbal outburst directed at a lineswoman at the U.S. Open in September. Williams now must go through a two year probationary period. If she is charged with another “major offense” her fine could climb to $175,000 and she could be […]
The Hazards Of Amateur Journalism
Posted on November 30, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
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Think anybody with a notebook or a camera is a journalist? Think again. Years of training and fine tuning go into creating the kind of experienced reporter who knows how to separate the wheat from the chaff while retaining an objective point of view, crafting it into an interesting story […]
Changes For The NewsHour On PBS
Posted on November 30, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
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Changes are coming for the NewsHour With Jim Lehrer on PBS. Howard Kurtz reports in the Washington Post that Lehrer’s name is being dropped from the title. The long-time PBS anchor will also start sharing the spotlight with a rotating set of correspondents including Judy Wodruff and Gwen Ifill, as the news […]
Report: How The U.S. Missed Its Shot At Osama bin Laden
Posted on November 29, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
A report put together for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and scheduled to be released tomorrow, says the United States blew its opportunity to get Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora back in 2001. Nobody should be all that surprised.
I clearly remember getting the call. It was a network photographer friend calling from Tora […]
Canadians Stop Reporter At The Border
Posted on November 28, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
U.S. journalist, Amy Goodman, was stopped and questioned by the Canadian authorities as she was crossing over into Canada for speaking engagements in Vancouver and Victoria. Apparently they were worried she might say something about the 2010 Olympics. The CBC reports that Goodman was stopped and questioned for 90 minutes.
“Goodman says Canadian Border Services Agency […]
England Turned On By American Actors
Posted on November 27, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
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American actors are turning on the British. Well, turning their Christmas lights on, anyway. First it was Jim Carrey, flipping the switch on the Christmas lights on Oxford Street in London as a promotion vehicle for Disney’s animated motion picture version of Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol.” Okay, I […]
Palin Visit Nearly Slaughters Turkey Grower’s Biz
Posted on November 27, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
Remember that incident last Thanksgiving, when then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin arrived to pardon a turkey and then hold a news conference at a turkey farm in Palmer, Alaska? Remember the shots of Palin on camera while a worker was slaughtering turkeys in the background?
It was a major faux pas on several fronts. One, of […]
Lou Dobbs Staffers Must Re-apply For Jobs
Posted on November 26, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
More than 20 producers, reporters and others who were working on the Lou Dobbs show at CNN, have been told they must re-apply for new jobs at the network. The New York Post reports that long-time staffers from “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” Kitty Pilgrim, Bill Tucker and others, are facing unemployment unless CNN gives them new […]
Read More..>>Lobbyists Put Words In Their Mouths
Posted on November 26, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
A piece published by the NY Times on the 14th continues to be worth reading as it shows the influence lobbyists have over the nation’s leaders. In this case, they appear to have literally put words in their mouths. And so, I’m posting a note about it now, even though I missed it when it […]
Read More..>>Robin Williams Comments On Sarah Palin
Posted on November 26, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
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Dispute Over Who Will Reorganize The Tribune Co.
Posted on November 26, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
A large group of investment funds have gone into bankruptcy court challenging the right of Tribune Company management to file an exclusive plan to control the company’s reorganization. The Chicago Tribune reports that the funds hold $4.4 billion of Tribune’s $8.6 billion debt. Among Tribune’s holdings are The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, […]
Read More..>>Zeppelin Returns To Los Angeles
Posted on November 25, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | 1 Comment
I went for a walk the other day and saw what I thought was just another “blimp” in the sky above Los Angeles. Turns out, it was an actual Zeppelin airship, back over L.A. for the first time since 1929. The Los Angeles Times reports that the 246 foot long airship “Eureka,” is considerably bigger […]
Read More..>>Rogue Times Two
Posted on November 25, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
Glenn Thrush in Politico and The Minnesota Independent are reporting that Michele Bachmann will be heading to Nashville in February to hook up with Sarah Palin for a Tea Party event at the Opryland Hotel.
‘Organizers of the National Tea Party Convention tweeted that Bachmann would be a speaker at the Feb. 4–6 event in Nashville. […]
Students Under Arrest In Iran
Posted on November 25, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
The theocracy in Iran continues to come crashing down on anyone who might stand in opposition to their puppet president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that scores of students have been arrested and prosecuted in recent days in an apparent effort to curtail anti-government protests expected to occur during […]
Read More..>>Washington Post Closing Regional Bureaus
Posted on November 24, 2009 - Filed Under Blog | 3 Comments
In another blow to an industry under siege, the Washington Post has announced that it’s closing regional bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The paper, it’s owners and editors say, will focus more on politics and local news.
The Post is making cuts for the same reason cuts were carried out at the Los […]
