Archive for the 'Media' Category
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Weltanschauung friend Bonnie is in the Chicago media for her work helping raise funds to build a Fisher House there (one near the Hines VA Hospital and later another in northern Chicago)! Congratulations, and thank you very much for supporting Fisher Houses. For those of you who aren’t familiar, a Fisher House is a place where the [...]
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
This may be the only thing I’ve ever read or heard from Michael Kinsley that was worth repeating. This was hilarious!
What’s fun is that I now get to find the Times’ most egregious errors, publish only their failures, claim that based on their ineptitude that their product is worthless, and call for [...]
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
I sent the following e-mail to a nationally syndicated television show host. The host in question seems to like vocabulary words even more than I do. Let’s see if this makes the e-mail review section!
I applaud you for disallowing tergiversation during your interviews. I like to [...]
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
I thought el chupacabra was some sort of vampire version of sasquatch. Not this.
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Monday, August 13th, 2007
My buddy Matt has some incisive comments for the journalism profession in this article. Newsrooms across the country should take heed.
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Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Here’s an interesting report from a new Stars & Stripes reporterette who got to fly at one of my alma matter squadrons.
The Air Force likes to try to make sure our Public Affairs staffs and some corresponding media personnel really understand what it’s like to operate in the aerospace environment. The [...]
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
From FoxNews.com (who else!?): A five-year old took down a rabid fox and kept it from attacking six other kids. Nice going, Rayshun!
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Take your own advice.
Your basic worldview is, to put it nicely, screwed up. It’s so screwed up that it causes you to not understand events happening in the world around you. You’re not ‘misinformed’ so much as you are ‘clueless.’ What it all really boils down to [...]
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
Hannity & Colmes followed Countdown on AFN News this morning. Their first guest was Army Lt Col Ralph Peters (ret). I agree with almost everything Col Peters says, except that he thinks the Air Force should be disbanded, with the strategic assets going to the Navy and the tactical assets going to [...]
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
As I was writing the post in memory of Robin Olds, I was listening to the TV news in the background. AFN Pacific plays MSNBC’s Countdown from 9-10 AM. Normally, I turn the TV off as soon as I hear Keith Olbermann’s voice. Today he’s got a woman named Alison Stewart on for him. I don’t believe [...]
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