Millworkers
You know times have changed when ... Wake Forest football is the subject of national rumor mills. That’s the situation with Coach Jim Grobe, and the intense speculation (is there any other kind?) that he may or may not be interested in the top job at Nebraska, which I suppose is to college football what Lexington is to barbecue. We were engaged in some very spirited discussions about how to cover this story. Coaching searches are maddening affairs. There are leaks. Well-intended but misinformed speculation, etc. etc. And sometimes the news is that there isn’t any news. Don’t know Grobe. People say he’s a nice guy. Certainly a good coach. He’s smart enough, too, to not close the door on anyone. So it’s not that he’s encouraging the rumors, so much as he’s not very effective at publicly squelching them. The continuous news cycle has also fed this beast. ESPN, message boards, blogs, etc. etc. Everybody has space to fill, air time to fill. In the old days, rumors had less places to land. News or the lack of it was more effectively controlled. That’s all changed. The result is that newspapers—in addition to all our other responsibilities—are the place to go to make sense of the rumors, things we might have ignored in a more gentlemanly time.
The state of journalism. Matt Taibbi and Ben Bradlee are from very different points on the news spectrum. They both have some interesting things to say about how we are doing and where we are going, particularly as it related to political journalism.
Here’s Taibbi, the political reporter for Rolling Stone. Here’s Bradlee, the former editor of the Washington Post. A note to young OTTERBLOG readers. Their comments are PG-13.
Finally, worth reading. BusinessWeek has a really well-done story on economic development in Africa and what it means to some of the world’s poorest people and the rich people here and elsewhere who rely on Africa’s resources for our daily conveniences.
Your host is Ken Otterbourg, the managing editor at the Winston-Salem Journal. It's a forum to discuss the media, from
a driving reason we moved to my home state in june was for higher education opportunities and levels of proficiency. read my article this week on the front page of the clemmons courier http://www.clemmonscourier.com
on how meadowlark middle school ruled at the convention center recently with its newly formed percussion ensemble before members of the n.c. music educators association conference with a clinic led by music director matt liner, an asu grad. the closest i will ever get to heaven on earth was during a concert at asu where i was in the concert band and i went to hear the trumpet player for Blood, Sweat and Tears perform.
The Elvin Bishop concert wasn’t bad either and meeting and interviewing Merle Watson where P.B. Scott’s Music Hall, a great geodesic dome in Blowing Rock, was the place to be.
sports and education, yeah. in conway, s.c. one middle school missed AYP so parent had the option of sending children across the county by bus for good education. the whole county is in non-compliance now.
if a student moved back to the non-compliant school if it finally made it, the “student-athlete” would be penalized and not be eligible to play sports.
Penalized because of a school’s failure. It’s only like 21 points of grading in AYP. No Child Left Behind. What a concept.
let’s pray dan rather’s suit stands merit, and he donates all that loot to investigative reporters. hurrah! i want an HDTV to see his show and Farm Aid. what about the bass player for Jeff Beck?
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