When I worked for the the Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, New York and the Washington Star in Washington, D.C. (before it was crushed by the Washington Post), and later the New York Post, I always felt the rush, as if the dopamine was coursing full speed when I waded into a crowd to ask questions of strangers who had no real reason to answer me.
Working the Crowd
May 26th, 2009Metropolitan Museum of Art – May 24, 2009
May 26th, 2009While my department dillydallies over its future, I’m exploring new ways to teach. That means a lot of field testing. The latest: Visiting the MET Sunday, May 24. Armed with a Panasonic Luminix DMC-LX3 point-n’-shoot. For now, I want to keep things simple: Pictures of MET visitors taking pictures.
Going to the MET was a friend’s idea.
So Much to Do
May 25th, 2009Because I was so wrapped up in trying to get my students credentials for the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver in August, and getting them prepped once they were notified by New America Media that three were going, and trying later for a WORD presence at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis (my trying was not as serious nor as successful as my efforts for the DNC in Denver) and then the Presidential Inaugural in D.C. (which they accomplished by themselves), I had slacked off a lot.
And I am still playing catch-up.
MEDP 292 – Basic Reporting, Spring, 2009 – Took It on the Chin
May 24th, 2009
Started with 16, ended with them
Random Shots, May 23, 2009, A Work in Progress
May 23rd, 2009
Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Side, About 3 p.m. Shot quickly. May 23
A Clarence Thomas Twit
May 23rd, 2009U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas – “No compassion in these kids nowadays. I just witnessed a group of punks defacing a Memorial Day decorative wreath. I was mortified.”
This post has a remote link to Journalism … I’m not one of his fans but I follow.
I, of course, replied: “But did you call the cops?”
The Last D:/F/M Faculty Meeting of the Semester
May 21st, 2009Cryptic but will have to do until I get back from the New America Media expo in Atlanta, June 4 -5. And by that I mean:
A Xmas Present for The Four Barnacles of the Apocalypse?
May 18th, 2009
Commute
May 18th, 2009Students in my feature writing are completing a nonfiction writing experiment about their commutes to and from campus. Some are adding pics with their features, some aren’t. The pub date is to begin late this week.
The 299.47 Feature Writing Posse
Cheerios Fails FDA’s Lie Detector Test
May 17th, 2009[You Never Saw This on the Evening News]
Ken PowellÂ
Chairman of the Board and CEOÂ
General MillsÂ
One General Mills BoulevardÂ
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55426
Dear Mr. Powell:Â
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed the label and labeling of your Cheerios® Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal. FDA’s review found serious violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) and the applicable regulations in Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR). You can find copies of the Act and these regulations through links in FDA’s home page at http://www.fda.gov.
Based on claims made on your product’s label, we have determined that your Cheerios® Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal is promoted for conditions that cause it to be a drug because the product is intended for use in the prevention, mitigation, and treatment of disease. Specifically, your Cheerios® product bears the following claims ort its label:
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Read more here.