February 2011
15 posts
tbmimsthethird asked: So.
I grew up in Memphis. Memphis had two things: soul and murder. For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be two things: a writer and a homicide detective. I couldn't be murder police, because I wasn't up for a decade of beat copping against my open people, all while sucking off some Lieutenant's ego to get an appointment (after busting ass to get a...
I grew up in Memphis. Memphis had two things: soul and murder. For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be two things: a writer and a homicide detective. I couldn't be murder police, because I wasn't up for a decade of beat copping against my open people, all while sucking off some Lieutenant's ego to get an appointment (after busting ass to get a...
Notes From a Prison Guard Slaying
When an inmate kills a young female guard in a prison chapel on a weekend, you pray hard as a newspaper editor you can do the story justice. Going against you:
It’s a weekend, so your reporters’ ability to get through to sources will be tough.
Prisons are para-military organizations tight-assed about releasing information on ANY subject.
Prison guards rarely if ever die in the line of duty,...
स्वागत करना: A New Type of Journalism →
ehehevan:
… With specific agendas already in place and propagated news filtered to the public by the military, government, and big businesses, it is hard to find a place for a new kind of journalism that is objective, “uses the insight of conflict analysis and transformation to update the concepts of balance, fairness and accuracy in reporting.” This type of reporting will hopefully create...
January 2011
25 posts
When the Citizen Journalist Is Your Husband
Just as my Sunday editing shift was ending at The Seattle Times the other night, we got word of a shooting at a Walmart an hour’s drive from Seattle in Port Orchard, Wash., possibly four dead, possibly some sheriff’s deputies.
Within seconds, reporters and editors off work that day were calling the newsroom to offer help — they knew I’d need extra hands. What we really needed...
College Resource: Gay-Friendly Universities →
Big props for a new resource guide on gay-friendly colleges and universities. The fact we need one in this country is shameful — every public school at least, by its nature, should be a haven of diversity — but I’m grateful for the guide just the same.
Just yesterday I showed my media-literacy class the documentary “Celluloid Closet” about depictions of gays/lesbians in films...
Watchseoulbrother:
Martin and Malcolm
Direct for iOS
Ah Smiley. I know where you’re coming from.
Watchgq:
This is perfect: True Grit, With Subtitles [via College Humor]
“Where is no QUARK on my BEND IT!”
For real. Positively indecipherable English, that thar one …
Watchgq:
This is perfect: True Grit, With Subtitles [via College Humor]
“Where is no QUARK on my BEND IT!”
For real. Rooster Cogburn, you are positively indecipherable …
Congresswoman shot in head at Tucson event →
Holy mother of god. Tell me this isn’t true?
Congresswoman shot in head at Tucson event →
Holy mother of god. Tell me this isn’t true?
SeoulBrother: "Nigger" →
seoulbrother:
It’s that time of year again where we discuss the word “nigger.” Seems like it was just yesterday when Oprah popularized the daytime-TV-safe “n-word”—I’m surprised that it didn’t make Word of the Year, but then again, I’m not. No matter how much you try to sugarcoat it, “nigger” makes people uncomfortable. This time the discussion is pegged to NewSouth Books’ “nigger”-free version...
SeoulBrother: "Nigger" →
seoulbrother:
It’s that time of year again where we discuss the word “nigger.” Seems like it was just yesterday when Oprah popularized the daytime-TV-safe “n-word”—I’m surprised that it didn’t make Word of the Year, but then again, I’m not. No matter how much you try to sugarcoat it, “nigger” makes people uncomfortable. This time the discussion is pegged to NewSouth Books’ “nigger”-free version...
American Drink: Does this drink make my ass look... →
americandrink:
Suki’s one of them good, hard dames. A life-long journalist with a crisp mind that gives her the ability to inject a question or barb between your sentences without interrupting the flow or dominating the conversation. It’s a bit like fencing but not the cacophonous blurt of Olympic style…
Ponderings from two of my favorite people, Albert and my newspaper boss, Suki...
American Drink: Does this drink make my ass look... →
americandrink:
Suki’s one of them good, hard dames. A life-long journalist with a crisp mind that gives her the ability to inject a question or barb between your sentences without interrupting the flow or dominating the conversation. It’s a bit like fencing but not the cacophonous blurt of Olympic style…
Ponderings from two of my favorite people, Albert and my newspaper boss, Suki...
