Oh, I meant to say: I found Salon and TT because my college friend started working there after graduation. I don't recall if she started as an intern, or just entry-level writer. By the time she left, she was in an upper level position, though I don't recall what. She took me to a Salon event in DC that, had we not both been getting very sick, we would have ended the night in Arianna Huffington's livingroom, getting rather drunk with a bunch of big names in political commentary. That would have been surreal.
She moved back to be near her parents after they had a bad health scare, worked as an editor for a bit, got into reporting on media and community in the local press, went back to grad school at Duke, and shortly is starting as a research associate in there center for media and democracy.
And she was such a flake, a beloved flake, and drama queen in college. Now she's a mom to her own son and two teenage stepdaughters. And no flakiness evident.
Yeah, I was a complete flake in my twenties. And now I hope I am not!
Allyson, have you seen this?
I did. Confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance.
Jim Lehrer ending his primary role in the NewsHour makes me feel old. I hated the McNeil/Lehrer Newshour as a kid cause it meant the end of my kid shows on PBS. But I grew up with it and came to appreciate it. And those guys will always make me think of my dad (just like Dan Rather always did.)
Anyway, in nostalgic googling, I came across this McNeil/Lehrer's principles of journalism:
- "Do nothing I cannot defend.
- Cover, write, and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me.
- Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.
- Assume the viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am.
- Assume the same about all people on whom I report.
- Assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise.
- Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories, and clearly label everything.
- Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions.
- No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously.
- And finally, I am not in the entertainment business."
DAYUMN.
He was the last of the on-air newsmen with a sense of gravitas, Sara.
Seriously. He is the end of a grand legacy.
I have to confess, I haven't watched it in years- timing issue.
ION, got the nicest compliments from my fellow swimmers tonight. One said I made swimming look effortless and beautiful and and another said her goal was my pace and distance.
random mathy question from English person: if you increased something from 77 to 150, how much of a percent did you increase it?
do I need to show my work?
