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I met a batch of new people this evening, and even chatted with them. How often do you do that? Not to be outdone, I really enjoyed catching up with many others too. Blogger meetups – try one sometime.
1. Two from MediaShift:
-Lessons learned from Backfence bust. One of the people I met this evening was Eric Olsen (go Leo bloggers). I don’t know if he’s really Cleveland’s Jimmy Wales, but he is a more or less internationally known blog promoter most commonly associated with Blogcritics. I know of Blogcritics because…I’m not really sure why. But I remember checking it out when I first starting blogging, then some writer friends of mine started writing for Blogcritics and I thought about it, but I don’t really do reviews of stuff. However, I loved reading about examples of successful blogs (read: profitable blogs) and seeing Eric’s name and Blogcritics, even though I had nothing to do with either of them but rather simply because they’re connected, by Eric, to Cleveland.
Anyway – Eric mentioned that Cool Cleveland is the successful potential that Backfence ended up not to be. I hope he’s right, and I’m guessing that he may very well be.
-How would you build a newsroom from scratch?
This question has got to be something asked of traditional journalists all the time. Any thoughts?
2. There’s more to this, right? Bizarre.
3. Eric Mansfield has some viable thoughts for how to get more accomplished in Iraq.
4. Two on mental health:
-A Mother in Israel addresses the issue in terms of how it’s hidden in some communities. I know that from when I worked in Israel in ’84-85. Even then, we learned about the secrecy with which it was handled. In Cleveland, I’ve learned that in certain Jewish communities, again, there is a reticence that harms victims and observers.
How do other religions manage these issues?
-Then there was this op-ed by Betty Ford and Roslyn Carter urging us to urge legislators to pass the Wellstone Act. Please read it and consider their request.
5. Making a video game out of a newsroom? Someone has said, why not.
6. Air America’s blog, Spark.
7. Lack of diversity on the Sunday talk shows – here and here and tokenism spoken like a, an and the by Robert Novak.
Go meet some new people and blog about them.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:45 am July 19th, 2007 in Politics
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Re: the Sunday political talk shows: Hollywood and the MSM do more to perpetuate ethnic stereotypes than politicos or anyone else does. Especially among the younger generation, we find more commonalities among peers of different ethnicities than we do differences. Leave it to the MSM to continue to draw clearly marked distinctions among ethnicities and reinforce old ways of viewing the various races as nearly separate species. The hypocrisy of Hollywood and the MSM stems from a glass ceiling that persists within the entertainment and news industries (Who carries the moniker of “media moguls?” Mostly white men who are already past retirement age, that’s who!) that have been shattered in a number of other industries.
Republicans have fielded Elizabeth Dole and Alan Keyes among their presidential aspirants before. I even cast my primary votes in 1996 and 2000 for Keyes. The gender or ethnicity of the VP hopeful in 2008 will hardly even raise eyebrows, contrary to what Novak says. Resonating with voters will hinge on message, not gimmicks.