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The L.A. Times had this story on the Boy Scouts’ two deadly encounters with lightning this year. Two Scouts have been killed in separate lightning strikes this year, and the Times says “a textbook response would have been far different.” But the story also concedes, “critiquing what the Scouts did or didn’t do is pointless […] For some reason I got out of the habit of reading Naomi’s cool blog, but she has some pretty cool posts about her recent trip to Africa. UPDATE 8/16: She also has this week’s Rundown up and running as well. This story about a ride with the president makes me want to take up mountain biking. About halfway into the ride, [the president] hops off his bike and leads the group over a footbridge and up a rocky path to a waterfall recharged by recent rains. “You are about to see a part of […] tried to go running today in central park … only made it about 20 minutes (was a little hungover too). Just too hot to do much of anything. I took a nice nap on the Sheep Meadow, though, while I listened to the Yankees game. Then went to Harrison’s for the Sox game. Six in […] According to the Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee TV reporter Vince Vitrano was taken to the woodshed by his bosses after he took the station helicopter to a media-league softball game. “There was much excitement and jubilation” when Vitrano landed, said one Channel 4 player. “It was unbelievable – I thought they were shooting highlights,” said […] So is everyone familiar with this Defede/Teele controversy playing out in Miami? In a nutshell: Former Miami Commissioner Arthur Teele blew his brains out in the lobby of the Miami Herald last month. Shortly before he did, he had an anguished phone conversation with Herald columnist Jim Defede. Defede recorded the phone call without Teele’s […] Mark makes a point here about anonymous comments, that they’re a bit of a turn-off. “It … places a limit on interactivity: I’m looking above and seeing two anonymous people and I’d like to know who they are. Comments serve you but they are also a place for your commenters to interact.” I think he’s […] The Rundown is here this week. So this weekend I’m at this journalism conference in Atlanta. At this party Saturday night, this guy approaches me, says he’d seen me at prior conferences. “Print or TV,” he says. “Print.” “You should be in TV,” he says. Thanks. I think he’s trying to hit on me, and my suspicion is confirmed a […] the llama song. My story today: The oil-for-food corruption probe netted its first criminal charges yesterday as a midlevel United Nations official pleaded guilty to receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks. Atlanta Originally uploaded by derek7272. Testing auto post to blog UPDATE: Kinda cool… I was able to post that picture and little bit of text straight from my cell phone, using flickr. That is a picture I took over the weekend of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. was baptized and […] I’m in Atlanta … the flight here was THE WORST EVER. Not only did they have to abort the landing once, I spent the entire flight squeezed into three-quarters of a seat. I was in the middle and this very corpulent woman was sitting next to me … she had to wedge herself into her […] So the show went well, I think … I mean, I was somewhat nervous, definitely, but hey, for my first live nationwide TV appearance, I’ll take it. The producers seemed pleased. I don’t know if you can tell this from the video, but I wasn’t on the same set as Ms. Grace […] I was trying to be all cool before, but I’ll admit it: I’m very excited to make my live national television debut!!! (I’ve been on Extra twice before, but that’s not live, and on New England Cable News, but that’s not national). I’ve thought for awhile that Nancy Grace had brilliant behind-the-scenes people, and this […] Check me out on the Nancy Grace show on CNN Headline News, tomorrow at 8 p.m. (replays at 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.), discussing the girl-next-door murder and dismemberment story I mentioned earlier. From Editor & Publisher, former Reuters Baghdad bureau chief Andrew Marshall on the media’s coverage of Iraq: “I don’t agree with those who say it is inappropriate to criticize the work of journalists in Iraq — just because we were working in very dangerous conditions does not mean that we should be immune from […] The latest Rundown is up and running… To celebrate the Sox’ dramatic victory against Tampa Bay last week, I ordered a Tao xm2go, a portable satellite radio receiver that’ll allow me to listen to every Major League Baseball game. It arrived today: So far seems very cool, although I have no way of comparing it to the other two portable XM […] A 48-year-old reporter with the Times Leader in Pennsylvania was arrested Sunday after arranging to someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl he met over the Internet. (In reality an undercover cop, of course — when will these people ever learn??). The Times Leader has a jailhouse interview with him here: In a conversation on […] |
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