Couple of things
- The Red & Black is all about breaking news ... and they do an excellent job here by showing dedicated ATF agents combatting the dreaded ninja threat on campus. Seriously though, isn't this kinda bad? It doesn't bode well that federal agents enjoy viciously detaining Methodists, even if they are decked out in ninja garb.
Just for the record, I used to go to Wesley, and we never had anything cool like 'Ninja vs. Pirate' competitions. Sure, plenty of talk of 'conquering Athens for the Lord' but nothing like this.
- Having spent a couple of years of my life covering high school athletics in Northeast Georgia, I'm quite confident this story will generate some letters to the editor. Anytime you report on something non-related to sports, like the brief scuffle mentioned in this story, you're going to get some folks up in arms who say 'you shouldn't mention this ... this story is supposed to be about the kids!' I got my fair share, my most memorable being an incredibly unhappy Clarke Central soccer parent who felt my story detailing the Gladiators' victory revealed a bias against Clarke Central. Though my favorite might be C Trent getting scolded by a parent because he had reported the son making an error in a high school baseball game. The kicker? The error allowed the winning run to score, meaning it was essential to the reporting to the game. The parent, if my memory holds up, asked C Trent 'what am I going to tell my son when he reads this article?' ... to which he responded 'tell him to catch the ball next time.'
- Not necessarily anything wrong with the Athens Banner-Herald's editorial on the need for increased diversity on the Partners for a Prosperous Athens (aside from the whole 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' mentality it has), but ...
Now that the steering committee has its first hard evidence that people with a direct experience of poverty aren't yet fully involved in Partners for a Prosperous Athens, an effort to get that involvement should be at the top of the committee's agenda.
Shouldn't, I don't know, getting people out of poverty be at the top of the committee's agenda?
- The Athenian blogosphere has had a good time with Athens-Clarke County mayoral candidate Charlie Maddox's web site, encouraging him to, well, improve it. Apparently he took our advice ... only by 'improve it' I mean he 'made it look radically worse.' See for yourself. And, good heavens, the grammar ...
- So the president's ratings are ridiculously low, and bad news is literally everywhere. What's a leader of the free world to do?
Blame the media and demand apologies for factual reporting.
Just for the record, I used to go to Wesley, and we never had anything cool like 'Ninja vs. Pirate' competitions. Sure, plenty of talk of 'conquering Athens for the Lord' but nothing like this.
- Having spent a couple of years of my life covering high school athletics in Northeast Georgia, I'm quite confident this story will generate some letters to the editor. Anytime you report on something non-related to sports, like the brief scuffle mentioned in this story, you're going to get some folks up in arms who say 'you shouldn't mention this ... this story is supposed to be about the kids!' I got my fair share, my most memorable being an incredibly unhappy Clarke Central soccer parent who felt my story detailing the Gladiators' victory revealed a bias against Clarke Central. Though my favorite might be C Trent getting scolded by a parent because he had reported the son making an error in a high school baseball game. The kicker? The error allowed the winning run to score, meaning it was essential to the reporting to the game. The parent, if my memory holds up, asked C Trent 'what am I going to tell my son when he reads this article?' ... to which he responded 'tell him to catch the ball next time.'
- Not necessarily anything wrong with the Athens Banner-Herald's editorial on the need for increased diversity on the Partners for a Prosperous Athens (aside from the whole 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' mentality it has), but ...
Now that the steering committee has its first hard evidence that people with a direct experience of poverty aren't yet fully involved in Partners for a Prosperous Athens, an effort to get that involvement should be at the top of the committee's agenda.
Shouldn't, I don't know, getting people out of poverty be at the top of the committee's agenda?
- The Athenian blogosphere has had a good time with Athens-Clarke County mayoral candidate Charlie Maddox's web site, encouraging him to, well, improve it. Apparently he took our advice ... only by 'improve it' I mean he 'made it look radically worse.' See for yourself. And, good heavens, the grammar ...
- So the president's ratings are ridiculously low, and bad news is literally everywhere. What's a leader of the free world to do?
Blame the media and demand apologies for factual reporting.
posted by Jmac at 6:32 PM
4 Comments:
Can someone donate a few commas to Maddox's campaign? I'm not how to to report that on a disclosure form, though. Maybe as an in-kind gift?
ONFG! Charlie Maaddox's webste just keeps getting worse are worser! This guy is a fucking joke!
The little sign in the lower left-hand corner is the clincher.
Way to attract all the poor folks using dialup, by making the entirety of your campaign site a 102K GIF... ::facepalm::
That's even bad by 1997 standards.
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