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sarameg - May 12, 2011 4:21:39 pm PDT #8035 of 30001

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.

javachik - May 12, 2011 4:24:31 pm PDT #8036 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

He was the last of the on-air newsmen with a sense of gravitas, Sara.

beekaytee - May 12, 2011 4:26:32 pm PDT #8037 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

Seriously. He is the end of a grand legacy.

sarameg - May 12, 2011 4:35:16 pm PDT #8038 of 30001

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.

Strix - May 12, 2011 4:36:31 pm PDT #8039 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

random mathy question from English person: if you increased something from 77 to 150, how much of a percent did you increase it?

le nubian - May 12, 2011 4:39:25 pm PDT #8040 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

94.8%

le nubian - May 12, 2011 4:39:56 pm PDT #8041 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

do I need to show my work?

sarameg - May 12, 2011 4:43:19 pm PDT #8042 of 30001

(150-77)/77=.94805 = 94.8 %

eta: did it for ya in a crosspost!

Cass - May 12, 2011 4:43:30 pm PDT #8043 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Those are some darn good principles.

Is anyone coming to JPL's Open House this weekend? We have neat stuff and rovers and it's free! Oh and I will be volunteering and telling people where the bathroom is and that climate change is not a hoax, I think. If they ask. Mostly they just want to know where the bathroom is.

I would love this! Um, the Open House bit. I can generally find bathrooms. Man, if I still lived in La Crescenta...

Ginger - May 12, 2011 4:53:54 pm PDT #8044 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

What's the motivation for lying?

There are guys who want to argue that ties are as bad has pantyhose, heels, bras, makeup and all the other uncomfortable accoutrements of corporate dress for women.

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