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27
Same MSM gap I’ve noticed twice recently
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Today, for the second time in a few weeks, I’ve read an article that to me, is definitely news. However, by the end of each article, I had similar questions:
For the first article, published either on 3/31/06 or 4/1/06 (I’m still trying to find it in the archives) which was about 12 and 13 year olds having sex in the back of a school bus and holding the teachers responsible, my question was, why aren’t there any quotes from either the parents of the kids alleged to be involved, parents in the school district or quotes from child development experts about the role of parents in such circumstances?
And this was before Maple Heights passed its ordinance to hold parents accountable for crimes their kids commit.
Then, today, the Plain Dealer has a lengthy article (you have to make a page jump) about how the Cleveland Bar Association wants sanctions against a set of parents for the unauthorized practice of law in regard to their autistic child’s special education needs.
My question this time: what do local special ed attorneys think? I know two local lawyers right off the top of my head who have decades of experience with parents and schools districts and courts. I’m certain they have an opinion.
The PD article does quote the Bar Association’s lawyer who is bringing the matter on the Association’s behalf.
But what about some slightly more objective opinions on whether the parents have gone too far, or not far enough?
I know quite a bit about the struggles such parents face, not only with getting and fighting for services, but with the law itself. I’m not sure yet where I think the line is. But just because the Bar Association brings this suit, it doesn’t necessarily mean it represents the opinion of all attorneys who’ve handled such matters.
What do they think?
Note to MSM: Everyone knows your pages are shrinking. You have to make choices about what to leave in and what to leave out. Please, think as a reader, as a parent – we’re your audience too. And as both those things, I, for one, would really like to have such opinions covered in the paper’s article. I feel like I say this all the time, but on this one, I really can’t believe that I’m alone in this thought.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:45 am April 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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26
[UPDATED] Jean Dubail on PoynterOnline’s question: What’s the point of newspaper blogs
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I received the following response from Jean Dubail, Metro editor at The Plain Dealer and OPEN editor, in regard to my post that asked, via a PoynterOnline article, what’s the point of newspaper blogs:
1) to elevate the PD’s profile on the web, inside Ohio and out
2) to break news faster, and improve our chances of getting credit for it when we do
3) to provide an outlet for stories that might not appeal to the general public but would be of keen interest to political junkies of course, it’s not a “true” blog in that it doesn’t invite comments, but that wasn’t the intent, at least to start. and so far it’s met our expectations pretty well.
My follow-up questions would include:
1. Aw – now why does it matter who gets credit? (that’s partially tongue-in-cheek because of course I know it does matter to some, but I still ask, why, why does it matter, really? Take the Bill Ritter situation today. The ball got rolling with the Stonewall Dems, but many others followed up and made the rest of it happen.)
2. Well, hmm, uh…if so far it’s met your expectations, what will OPEN: The Next Generation look like? Maybe roll out something new after the primaries?
I look forward to it, since, I confess, I check OPEN at least a couple of times a day.
Thanks for the input, Jean.
Okay – he went first. Who’s next? You can do it. I know you can.
UPDATE: Dubail responds to my persistence, and, to be fair, even though I contend that I’m more of a get in the last word person than a be the first type, I guess competition is competition:
i meant credit vs. other MSM, mainly. there are few things more infuriating than to start working on a story you know you have alone, and then to have some other paper get wind of what you are working on and pony up something they publish the same morning you do. even if what they do is crap you can’t claim you totally beat them. but if we post it on the website, it’s in effect time-stamped, and it’s clear who beat whom. that means a great [deal] to us dinosaurs.
Well, my kids have always loved dinosaurs, and I still read two newspapers a day, despite Jeff Hess’s best efforts to convince me otherwise. But yeah, I understand. Maybe it’s just that I grew up in the open classroom setting, you know – no one wins or loses? everyone has value? bla bla bla?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:09 pm April 26th, 2006 in Politics | 8 Comments
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Apr
26
This afternoon, Talk of the Nation broadcast this report about an almost but not quite tongue-in-cheek documentary, filmed by an evolutionary biologist (PhD from Harvard but undergrad studies done partly at, you won’t believe – University of Kansas). The film will premiere this weekand at the Tribeca Film Festival but you can watch a trailer from that link.
You can find two thorough reviews here (Cinematical) and here (New York Times). But if you Google the movie’s title, you’ll find many more articles and stories.
I heard the whole ten minutes on TOTN and became convinced that this movie needs to come to Ohio. I’d love to sit in on a screening with SOS Ken Blackwell and his Christian Coalition. Would they shout “Blasphemy!!!” and walk out? Or would he just not show up, as he’s been tending to do when faced with other situations that might challenge his ideas and ideals?
How did it play in Kansas? From the NYT:
”Flock of Dodos” opened earlier this year in Kansas, where the reception was just what a filmmaker might dream of: cheers, jeers, questions and discussion from a highly engaged audience. Since then it has been shown at several college campuses, where it has drawn enthusiastic crowds.
So what’s his point with this film? Again, from the NYT:
The biologist, Randy Olson, accepts that there is no credible scientific challenge to the theory of evolution as an explanation for the diversity and complexity of life on earth. He agrees that intelligent design’s embrace of a supernatural ”agent” puts it outside the realm of science.
But when he watches the advocates of intelligent design at work, he sees pleasant people who speak plainly, convincingly and with humor. When scientists he knows talk about evolution, they can be dour, pompous and disagreeable, even with one another. His film challenges them to get off their collective high horse and make their case to ordinary people with — if they can muster it — a smile.
Otherwise, he suggests, they will end up in the collective cultural backwash just like the dodo.
Please, pretty please – someone bring this movie here. Soon. And definitely before the November elections.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:32 pm April 26th, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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26
[UPDATED] Today’s City Club debate for Ohio 13 – anyone go? No podcast yet
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I was in my kids’ health clinic with bumped heads, arms, stomaches, wrenched fingers, sore throats and two lost teeth (not from the same kid), so I missed this.
Looking forward to a first person report when someone knows of/writes about one.
UPDATE: Steve Luttner of OPEN filed this report about the debate. Not sure what I expected, or why I would expect anything different, but it sounds like no one said anything new. Bummer. (But thanks, Steve.)
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:26 pm April 26th, 2006 in Politics | 3 Comments
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26
What’s the point of newspaper blogs? PoynterOnline wants to know
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Lots of folks who read this blog (oh, okay, the few folks who read this blog) probably also get PoynterOnline in the late afternoon like I do and saw this piece today.
Now, a few folks who read this blog work for The Plain Dealer. It’s okay, I’m not outing the ones I know and I’m thrilled to fantasize that there are a few I don’t know about.
That said, I’m inviting every single one of you – and any other newspaper folks who read this blog – to answer Amy Gahran’s question, either in a comment or in an email, anonymous or not – I promise to make nary a single snarky comment about Anonymous the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or beyond.
So – as Gahran’s asks, “For those of you who blog, or whose news organizations offer blogs: What’s your point? What are your reasons or goals for this kind of interaction?”
Comment below (she wrote that too).
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:19 pm April 26th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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26
[UPDATED] Jean Dubail on PoynterOnline’s question: What’s the point of newspaper blogs
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I received the following response from Jean Dubail, Metro editor at The Plain Dealer and OPEN editor, in regard to my post that asked, via a PoynterOnline article, what’s the point of newspaper blogs:
1) to elevate the PD’s profile on the web, inside Ohio and out
2) to break news faster, and improve our chances of getting credit for it when we do
3) to provide an outlet for stories that might not appeal to the general public but would be of keen interest to political junkies of course, it’s not a “true” blog in that it doesn’t invite comments, but that wasn’t the intent, at least to start. and so far it’s met our expectations pretty well.
My follow-up questions would include:
1. Aw – now why does it matter who gets credit? (that’s partially tongue-in-cheek because of course I know it does matter to some, but I still ask, why, why does it matter, really? Take the Bill Ritter situation today. The ball got rolling with the Stonewall Dems, but many others followed up and made the rest of it happen.)
2. Well, hmm, uh…if so far it’s met your expectations, what will OPEN: The Next Generation look like? Maybe roll out something new after the primaries?
I look forward to it, since, I confess, I check OPEN at least a couple of times a day.
Thanks for the input, Jean.
Okay – he went first. Who’s next? You can do it. I know you can.
UPDATE: Dubail responds to my persistence, and, to be fair, even though I contend that I’m more of a get in the last word person than a be the first type, I guess competition is competition:
i meant credit vs. other MSM, mainly. there are few things more infuriating than to start working on a story you know you have alone, and then to have some other paper get wind of what you are working on and pony up something they publish the same morning you do. even if what they do is crap you can’t claim you totally beat them. but if we post it on the website, it’s in effect time-stamped, and it’s clear who beat whom. that means a great [deal] to us dinosaurs.
Well, my kids have always loved dinosaurs, and I still read two newspapers a day, despite Jeff Hess’s best efforts to convince me otherwise. But yeah, I understand. Maybe it’s just that I grew up in the open classroom setting, you know – no one wins or loses? everyone has value? bla bla bla?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:09 pm April 26th, 2006 in Politics | 8 Comments
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Apr
26
This afternoon, Talk of the Nation broadcast this report about an almost but not quite tongue-in-cheek documentary, filmed by an evolutionary biologist (PhD from Harvard but undergrad studies done partly at, you won’t believe – University of Kansas). The film will premiere this weekand at the Tribeca Film Festival but you can watch a trailer from that link.
You can find two thorough reviews here (Cinematical) and here (New York Times). But if you Google the movie’s title, you’ll find many more articles and stories.
I heard the whole ten minutes on TOTN and became convinced that this movie needs to come to Ohio. I’d love to sit in on a screening with SOS Ken Blackwell and his Christian Coalition. Would they shout “Blasphemy!!!” and walk out? Or would he just not show up, as he’s been tending to do when faced with other situations that might challenge his ideas and ideals?
How did it play in Kansas? From the NYT:
”Flock of Dodos” opened earlier this year in Kansas, where the reception was just what a filmmaker might dream of: cheers, jeers, questions and discussion from a highly engaged audience. Since then it has been shown at several college campuses, where it has drawn enthusiastic crowds.
So what’s his point with this film? Again, from the NYT:
The biologist, Randy Olson, accepts that there is no credible scientific challenge to the theory of evolution as an explanation for the diversity and complexity of life on earth. He agrees that intelligent design’s embrace of a supernatural ”agent” puts it outside the realm of science.
But when he watches the advocates of intelligent design at work, he sees pleasant people who speak plainly, convincingly and with humor. When scientists he knows talk about evolution, they can be dour, pompous and disagreeable, even with one another. His film challenges them to get off their collective high horse and make their case to ordinary people with — if they can muster it — a smile.
Otherwise, he suggests, they will end up in the collective cultural backwash just like the dodo.
Please, pretty please – someone bring this movie here. Soon. And definitely before the November elections.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:32 pm April 26th, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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26
[UPDATED] Today’s City Club debate for Ohio 13 – anyone go? No podcast yet
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I was in my kids’ health clinic with bumped heads, arms, stomaches, wrenched fingers, sore throats and two lost teeth (not from the same kid), so I missed this.
Looking forward to a first person report when someone knows of/writes about one.
UPDATE: Steve Luttner of OPEN filed this report about the debate. Not sure what I expected, or why I would expect anything different, but it sounds like no one said anything new. Bummer. (But thanks, Steve.)
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:26 pm April 26th, 2006 in Politics | 3 Comments
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Apr
26
What’s the point of newspaper blogs? PoynterOnline wants to know
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Lots of folks who read this blog (oh, okay, the few folks who read this blog) probably also get PoynterOnline in the late afternoon like I do and saw this piece today.
Now, a few folks who read this blog work for The Plain Dealer. It’s okay, I’m not outing the ones I know and I’m thrilled to fantasize that there are a few I don’t know about.
That said, I’m inviting every single one of you – and any other newspaper folks who read this blog – to answer Amy Gahran’s question, either in a comment or in an email, anonymous or not – I promise to make nary a single snarky comment about Anonymous the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or beyond.
So – as Gahran’s asks, “For those of you who blog, or whose news organizations offer blogs: What’s your point? What are your reasons or goals for this kind of interaction?”
Comment below (she wrote that too).
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:19 pm April 26th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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26
[UPDATED] Jean Dubail on PoynterOnline’s question: What’s the point of newspaper blogs
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I received the following response from Jean Dubail, Metro editor at The Plain Dealer and OPEN editor, in regard to my post that asked, via a PoynterOnline article, what’s the point of newspaper blogs:
1) to elevate the PD’s profile on the web, inside Ohio and out
2) to break news faster, and improve our chances of getting credit for it when we do
3) to provide an outlet for stories that might not appeal to the general public but would be of keen interest to political junkies of course, it’s not a “true” blog in that it doesn’t invite comments, but that wasn’t the intent, at least to start. and so far it’s met our expectations pretty well.
My follow-up questions would include:
1. Aw – now why does it matter who gets credit? (that’s partially tongue-in-cheek because of course I know it does matter to some, but I still ask, why, why does it matter, really? Take the Bill Ritter situation today. The ball got rolling with the Stonewall Dems, but many others followed up and made the rest of it happen.)
2. Well, hmm, uh…if so far it’s met your expectations, what will OPEN: The Next Generation look like? Maybe roll out something new after the primaries?
I look forward to it, since, I confess, I check OPEN at least a couple of times a day.
Thanks for the input, Jean.
Okay – he went first. Who’s next? You can do it. I know you can.
UPDATE: Dubail responds to my persistence, and, to be fair, even though I contend that I’m more of a get in the last word person than a be the first type, I guess competition is competition:
i meant credit vs. other MSM, mainly. there are few things more infuriating than to start working on a story you know you have alone, and then to have some other paper get wind of what you are working on and pony up something they publish the same morning you do. even if what they do is crap you can’t claim you totally beat them. but if we post it on the website, it’s in effect time-stamped, and it’s clear who beat whom. that means a great [deal] to us dinosaurs.
Well, my kids have always loved dinosaurs, and I still read two newspapers a day, despite Jeff Hess’s best efforts to convince me otherwise. But yeah, I understand. Maybe it’s just that I grew up in the open classroom setting, you know – no one wins or loses? everyone has value? bla bla bla?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:09 pm April 26th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Apr
26
CPN asks & let me tell them what influences who’ll get my vote: Meet the Bloggers
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Listen here if you didn’t hear it live. Toward the end of the show. Glad they took my comment because I think it’s VITAL that voters look beyond – or not look at all at – the television ads and newspapers and campaign-produced information.
What should they look to instead? How about the candidates themselves, like I choose to do via Meet the Bloggers?
I’ve said it before I’ll say it again: I am and I was an ordinary voter who’d never attended a single candidate-sponsored, League of Women Voters-sponsored or party-sponsored event, ever, for any election. Ever.
I started this blog in July 2005 because I wanted to get my butt in the chair to be sure I was writing something everyday, and depositing the overflow of ideas somewhere.
I was directed to Brewed Fresh Daily.
I started to read comments.
I started to go to other blogs penned by the people who commented.
I saw the MTB banner on the side of BFD (you should put that back there, George).
And voila – an interested, inquisitive participant was born. This can happen to anyone who cares.
And there’s no other way on earth I’d ever be able to spend more than an hour with each of five Ohio gubernatorial candidates.
What’s played a role in how I’ll vote, Cindi Deutschman-Ruiz asked at the beginning of the show today.
My answer: the Internet (including the Plain Dealer’s Open), candidates’ websites, but most of all, Meet the Bloggers and meeting the candidates in person.
Because I could. Because of MTB.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:42 pm April 26th, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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Apr
26
Flock of Dodos (no – not Ohio’s current GOP administration!)
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This afternoon, Talk of the Nation broadcast this report about an almost but not quite tongue-in-cheek documentary, filmed by an evolutionary biologist (PhD from Harvard but undergrad studies done partly at, you won’t believe – University of Kansas). The film will premiere this weekand at the Tribeca Film Festival but you can watch a trailer from that link.
You can find two thorough reviews here (Cinematical) and here (New York Times). But if you Google the movie’s title, you’ll find many more articles and stories.
I heard the whole ten minutes on TOTN and became convinced that this movie needs to come to Ohio. I’d love to sit in on a screening with SOS Ken Blackwell and his Christian Coalition. Would they shout “Blasphemy!!!” and walk out? Or would he just not show up, as he’s been tending to do when faced with other situations that might challenge his ideas and ideals?
How did it play in Kansas? From the NYT:
”Flock of Dodos” opened earlier this year in Kansas, where the reception was just what a filmmaker might dream of: cheers, jeers, questions and discussion from a highly engaged audience. Since then it has been shown at several college campuses, where it has drawn enthusiastic crowds.
So what’s his point with this film? Again, from the NYT:
The biologist, Randy Olson, accepts that there is no credible scientific challenge to the theory of evolution as an explanation for the diversity and complexity of life on earth. He agrees that intelligent design’s embrace of a supernatural ”agent” puts it outside the realm of science.
But when he watches the advocates of intelligent design at work, he sees pleasant people who speak plainly, convincingly and with humor. When scientists he knows talk about evolution, they can be dour, pompous and disagreeable, even with one another. His film challenges them to get off their collective high horse and make their case to ordinary people with — if they can muster it — a smile.
Otherwise, he suggests, they will end up in the collective cultural backwash just like the dodo.
Please, pretty please – someone bring this movie here. Soon. And definitely before the November elections.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:32 pm April 26th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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26
[UPDATED] Today’s City Club debate for Ohio 13 – anyone go? No podcast yet
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I was in my kids’ health clinic with bumped heads, arms, stomaches, wrenched fingers, sore throats and two lost teeth (not from the same kid), so I missed this.
Looking forward to a first person report when someone knows of/writes about one.
UPDATE: Steve Luttner of OPEN filed this report about the debate. Not sure what I expected, or why I would expect anything different, but it sounds like no one said anything new. Bummer. (But thanks, Steve.)
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:26 pm April 26th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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26
What’s the point of newspaper blogs? PoynterOnline wants to know
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Lots of folks who read this blog (oh, okay, the few folks who read this blog) probably also get PoynterOnline in the late afternoon like I do and saw this piece today.
Now, a few folks who read this blog work for The Plain Dealer. It’s okay, I’m not outing the ones I know and I’m thrilled to fantasize that there are a few I don’t know about.
That said, I’m inviting every single one of you – and any other newspaper folks who read this blog – to answer Amy Gahran’s question, either in a comment or in an email, anonymous or not – I promise to make nary a single snarky comment about Anonymous the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or beyond.
So – as Gahran’s asks, “For those of you who blog, or whose news organizations offer blogs: What’s your point? What are your reasons or goals for this kind of interaction?”
Comment below (she wrote that too).
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:19 pm April 26th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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26
CPN asks & let me tell them what influences who’ll get my vote: Meet the Bloggers
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Listen here if you didn’t hear it live. Toward the end of the show. Glad they took my comment because I think it’s VITAL that voters look beyond – or not look at all at – the television ads and newspapers and campaign-produced information.
What should they look to instead? How about the candidates themselves, like I choose to do via Meet the Bloggers?
I’ve said it before I’ll say it again: I am and I was an ordinary voter who’d never attended a single candidate-sponsored, League of Women Voters-sponsored or party-sponsored event, ever, for any election. Ever.
I started this blog in July 2005 because I wanted to get my butt in the chair to be sure I was writing something everyday, and depositing the overflow of ideas somewhere.
I was directed to Brewed Fresh Daily.
I started to read comments.
I started to go to other blogs penned by the people who commented.
I saw the MTB banner on the side of BFD (you should put that back there, George).
And voila – an interested, inquisitive participant was born. This can happen to anyone who cares.
And there’s no other way on earth I’d ever be able to spend more than an hour with each of five Ohio gubernatorial candidates.
What’s played a role in how I’ll vote, Cindi Deutschman-Ruiz asked at the beginning of the show today.
My answer: the Internet (including the Plain Dealer’s Open), candidates’ websites, but most of all, Meet the Bloggers and meeting the candidates in person.
Because I could. Because of MTB.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:42 am April 26th, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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Apr
26
CPN asks & let me tell them what influences who’ll get my vote: Meet the Bloggers
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Listen here if you didn’t hear it live. Toward the end of the show. Glad they took my comment because I think it’s VITAL that voters look beyond – or not look at all at – the television ads and newspapers and campaign-produced information.
What should they look to instead? How about the candidates themselves, like I choose to do via Meet the Bloggers?
I’ve said it before I’ll say it again: I am and I was an ordinary voter who’d never attended a single candidate-sponsored, League of Women Voters-sponsored or party-sponsored event, ever, for any election. Ever.
I started this blog in July 2005 because I wanted to get my butt in the chair to be sure I was writing something everyday, and depositing the overflow of ideas somewhere.
I was directed to Brewed Fresh Daily.
I started to read comments.
I started to go to other blogs penned by the people who commented.
I saw the MTB banner on the side of BFD (you should put that back there, George).
And voila – an interested, inquisitive participant was born. This can happen to anyone who cares.
And there’s no other way on earth I’d ever be able to spend more than an hour with each of five Ohio gubernatorial candidates.
What’s played a role in how I’ll vote, Cindi Deutschman-Ruiz asked at the beginning of the show today.
My answer: the Internet (including the Plain Dealer’s Open), candidates’ websites, but most of all, Meet the Bloggers and meeting the candidates in person.
Because I could. Because of MTB.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:42 am April 26th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Apr
25
I wasn’t reading Michele Malkin at all, but then Lincoln Logs referred to it a week or so ago, and I felt sympatico because of the way commenters tortured her in ways that had nothing to do with either furthering debate or being part of the chorus. I even wrote her a letter but I didn’t get an auto- or personal response. Being a writer, I’m used to not hearing back – part of building up that skin.
However, I saw a reference to her blog somewhere along the way today and clicked over to browse. Some of the posts seem like just good news sources, others express her opinions more obviously, as a visitor to her blog would and should expect.
Then I saw her new venture, which began yesterday, Hot Air. The About page seems to indicate that there are sites like Hot Air for liberals by liberals – but I’m not aware of which ones she means.
In any case, it’s a great example of convergence and manipulating all the tools available to provide news, information, opinion and participatory forums, not unlike NEO’s Meet the Bloggers and Plunderbund’s new podcast.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:08 pm April 25th, 2006 in Politics | 1 Comment
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25
I wasn’t reading Michele Malkin at all, but then Lincoln Logs referred to it a week or so ago, and I felt sympatico because of the way commenters tortured her in ways that had nothing to do with either furthering debate or being part of the chorus. I even wrote her a letter but I didn’t get an auto- or personal response. Being a writer, I’m used to not hearing back – part of building up that skin.
However, I saw a reference to her blog somewhere along the way today and clicked over to browse. Some of the posts seem like just good news sources, others express her opinions more obviously, as a visitor to her blog would and should expect.
Then I saw her new venture, which began yesterday, Hot Air. The About page seems to indicate that there are sites like Hot Air for liberals by liberals – but I’m not aware of which ones she means.
In any case, it’s a great example of convergence and manipulating all the tools available to provide news, information, opinion and participatory forums, not unlike NEO’s Meet the Bloggers and Plunderbund’s new podcast.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:08 pm April 25th, 2006 in Politics | 1 Comment
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25
Flannery communications director: Flannery does not support teaching ID in public school science class
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[Yes, that heading used to say "campaign director" - that was my error and I don't know the html strike-out code]
My post earlier this morning about Bill Cohen’s CPN report on the Christian Coalition forum and Bryan Flannery’s statements about Intelligent Design drew a couple of e-mails from Anthony Fossaceca. Here is his clarification of what Flannery said at that event and what Flannery advocates:
I just talked to Bryan. He DOES NOT support the teaching of intelligent design in any classroom other than maybe Theology. His comments at the Christian Coalition forum were designed as a light joke (science proving intelligent design), but were taken out of context by many of the guests, and clearly by ODP which has no problem saying “minister” every time Ted Strickland’s name is mentioned, but call Bryan a extremist whenever he talks about his faith.
Last time I got into an ODP – Fossaceca thing, I got a call from Chris Redfern. Think I’ll get a call later today from anyone? (An e-mail in response to Fossaceca’s assertion will be fine – I’m in and out a lot today.) Actually, maybe it’s Bill Cohen who needs to clarify?
Here’s where Open’s idea of Open notebooks would be very helpful, to determine the context and tenor of Flannery statements for ourselves, not through the filters of others.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:02 pm April 25th, 2006 in Politics | 7 Comments
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25
What do Jews do, Yom HaShoah, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut
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Today is Yom HaShoah (remembering the Holocaust), next Tuesday is Yom Hazikaron (similar to our Memorial Day on which we remember fallen military) and next Wednesday is Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day.
I don’t recall doing much to celebrate these occasions when I was a kid. I don’t know if that’s because I was raised Reform (and perhaps my synagogue didn’t do much?) or because something more practical got in the way (because these holidays absolutely weren’t observed by public schools). Looks like I have some more questions to ask my mother and father.
At my children’s Jewish Day schools, each of these days carried specific messages and rituals. Likewise at our synagogue now. However, in my home, we will most likely just say extra prayers and perhaps read some poignant passages. And, I’m going to ask more about how to observe on Thursday night at my next leadership fellows institute session.
About.com has a nice post to which people have contributed descriptions of how their communities commemorate Yom HaShoah.
Not to sound so sanguine, but frankly, as a Jew, and an Eastern European one at that, I feel as though I live the memory of the Holocaust all year long. Not necessarily every day, but it’s hard to believe that a day of remembrance is even necessary. Even though I understand why it is, particularly for the non-Jewish world to witness, if they care to.
What others have to say:
Here is a very nice blog entry, written in memory of relatives and describing what happens in Israel.
And another lyrical account of what someone did in Israel on this day.
Kentucky Democrat has this prayer.
Finally, from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, more information.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:00 pm April 25th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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