We’re here in the fourth period Journalism class getting an introduction to updating a website by using this photo from the 34th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Breakfast at the Palm Beach County Convention Center on Monday. Go ‘Canes!
At the Inlet Grove table (L-R), Mr. Banks, Mr. McDermott, Ms. Pientka and Mr. Lopez.
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We’re here in the third period Journalism class updating this site with info from the 34th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Breakfast. Three Inlet Grove Community High School students won honorable mention awards in the MLK Essay Contest, including Breanna Moore, a senior student in the Medical Academy, pictured below with fellow Inlet Grove students.
Brianna Elliot, Joanna Joseph and Breanna Moore at the annual MLK event.
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… of how we got here:
Why did the New York Times back down again and again and hold important stories? The reasons are infuriating. — Patrick L. Smith
Also worthy of note:
Heather Digby Parton on
Cheney’s old pal Ahmed Chalabi is back
And more media mess:
Media Matters on
How The Iraq War Still Haunts New York Times
— C.B. Hanif
Graduation style, June 2014.
Just finished a great year with my Journalism students at Inlet Grove Community High School, plus two before that as managing editor of the South Florida Times. Now summer’s back again, I’m missing my students and the newsroom — so what better to do than pause and give thanks for all the good. It’s also a good time to catch up on missed family and friends, obligations and opportunities, community service and activities. To get in some biking and swimming. And of course, with so much going on — from the regrettable (Iraq. Again.) to the unforgettable (Gooooooooooooooooooooal!) — more writing, editing and reading. Meanwhile I’m back up for air; feel free to be in touch.
6.22.14
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The second features Nick Davies, the amazing reporter who refused to take no for a story:
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Juan Cole pretty much says it re our depressing media landscape:
Americans live in a late capitalist society where the rich have gotten many times richer and the middle class has gotten poorer, where Wall Street bankers have stolen us blind and blamed us for living above our means, where persistent unemployment is worse than in the Great Depression, where most politicians and some judges have been bought by corporations or special interests, where authorities actively conspire to keep people from voting, where the government spies on citizens assiduously without warrant or probable cause, and where the minds of the sheep are kept off their fleecing by substituting celebrity gossip, sex scandals, and half-disguised bigotry for genuine news…
http://www.juancole.com/2011/06/our-news-and-their-news.html#comments
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I’ve seen the movie trailer. It seemed to shout, ‘Invest your money, intelligence and dignity elsewhere: Catch the Syfy marathon.’
Read the column here. See the page here. See this week’s entire Digital Edition here. Or just keep reading:
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“Isn’t Azerbaijan a democratic republic? Constitutionally, it is, of course. But the constitution is one thing and the political culture and practice are something else.”
— Christel Fricke, director of the Center for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo, Norway, writing at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
It’s a new year in Baku, Azerbaijan, which I last wrote about here, after visiting, on behalf of the international Organization of News Ombudsmen, here.
Even as bustling Baku booms, it seems the more things change, the more things…don’t? As Ms. Fricke observes, the struggle continues.
More Baku scenes:
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For example, for 2010’s Worst Christmas Tree, I nominate the $11 million, jewel-encrusted, “most expensive Christmas tree ever.”
— From my latest commentary in Florida Weekly.
Read it here. See the page here. See this week’s entire Digital Edition here. Or just keep reading:
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Juan Cole on Libya: Looking back. And forward
August 25th · Iraq, Juan Cole
— Juan Cole, “How to Avoid Bush’s Iraq Mistakes in Libya”
University of Michigan Prof. Juan Cole’s analyses on all things Middle Eastern at his Informed Comment site (juancole.com), are like music to a thinking person’s ears. Take a look back over the past few days’ postings, including his “Top Ten Myths about the Libya War.”
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