By Sheila
Lennon 'Bottom-up' journalism from the
pros
Updated: The
Station Fire Weblog
April 29, 2003, 7:52 p.m. - (Last
week's weblog)
I was unexpectedly off yesterday. I'm sorry if you
came looking for an update and left
disappointed.
Country song lurks in a sad Pa.
tale: Man
kills new wife, self, eight hours after wedding:
From Mill Hall, Pa.,
State police at Lamar said Frank W. Shope II, 34,
married Lori Ann Spangler, 35, on Friday afternoon,
but they began to argue during a small reception in a
bar in Mill Hall, Clinton County.
The dispute escalated after they returned to their
home in the Camelot Estates Trailer Court in Mill
Hall, and a concerned neighbor called police.
Shortly before officers arrived, Shope got a .38
caliber revolver from his vehicle parked in the
driveway and shot his new wife in the doorway of the
mobile home at about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, police
said.
He then shot himself in the head, they said.
...Shope started dating Spangler about five weeks
ago after ending a 16-year relationship with another
woman, friends and neighbors told The Patriot-News of
Harrisburg. The two worked at the Clinton County
Country Club, and Shope also worked at a service
station in Mill Hall.
What do you think they were fighting about? Link to this item | Comment
Open competition for the World Trade
Center memorial: Anyone over the age of 18 may
enter a design. You must register for the competition by
May 29 and include a $25 submission fee. Final designs
are due June 30.
Among the judges is Vietnam Veterans' Memorial designer Maya Lin, whose advice to appplicants is,
"You enter a competition not necessarily to win but
to say what you truly believe needs to be done there.
... What could a memorial be here? Is it a place? Is
it an object? Does it frame the site? But again, I
hope we get submissions from people who just believe
that their solution is right and they need to say it
for them, and that's very important."
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Worth repeating from last week: Free ice cream today AND tomorrow:
Today is Free Cone Day at Ben
& Jerry's stores (from noon-8 p.m.; you get ice
cream too, not just a cone), and tomorrow is Free Scoop
Night at Baskin-Robbins: "Visit one of our
participating stores on Wednesday, April 30, 2003, from
6 to 10 p.m. and get a FREE 2.5 oz scoop of ice cream.
Choose from any available flavor."
What a week to be a kid -- free ice cream two days in
a row, followed by a free comic book Saturday. Link to this item | Comment
The Unholy Army of Catholic School Girls:
It's a digital paper doll site. In case that
link doesn't work with your browser, this one probably will. Link to this item | Comment
GeoURL ICBM Address Server:
GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will
allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given
location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web
page of the restaurants near you. Link to this item | Comment
Who do you think you are,
lady? Those dazzled by embedding were not amused by
Ashleigh Banfield's analysis of war coverage.
April 24: MSNBC's Banfield: Media filtered realities
of war: From the Topeka (Kansas)
Capital-Journal,
MANHATTAN -- War's sobering realities never reached
American TV screens during the recent U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq, according to NBC News correspondent
Ashleigh Banfield.
"We didn't see what happen when Marines fired
M-16s," Banfield said during a Landon lecture
appearance today at Kansas State University. "We
didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only
the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were
completely left out of this war. So was this
journalism? Or was this coverage?"
On the other hand, she said, many U.S. television
viewers were treated to a non-stop flow of images
presented by "cable news operators who wrap themselves
in the American flag and go after a certain target
demographic."
"It was a grand and glorious picture that had a lot
of people watching," Banfield said, "and a lot of
advertisers excited about cable TV news. But it wasn't
journalism, because I'm not sure Americans are
hesitant to do this again -- to fight another war,
because it looked to them like a courageous and
terrific endeavor."
Audio: Hear the Landon Lecture delivered
by Banfield
April 29: NBC's Banfield Chided Over Criticisms
NBC insiders said few people took Banfield's
comments seriously because of her lack of experience
-- she is largely working for MSNBC these days, and
her primetime show on the network failed last summer.
"I don't think people look to Ashleigh Banfield to set
the standards of journalism," one person said about
the reaction inside the department. "People were sort
of rolling their eyes."
Reporters who have returned from Iraq have defended
the networks' lack of blood-and-guts video, saying it
was impossible to film much of it because of
logistical reasons. They also noted that embedded
reporters did not see action much of the time in
Iraq.
Link to this item | Comment
'A licence to kill? Oh heavens, no!'
"Daphne Park does not look like James Bond, but she
was the true face of British Intelligence for 30 years."
From the Telegraph (U.K.):
As one of MI6's most senior controllers for more
than 30 years, she ran agents in Moscow during the
Cold War, infiltrated Hanoi during the Vietnam
conflict and smuggled men out of the Congo,
post-independence, in the boot of her car. When she
refers to "the office", she means MI6.
"It's been a huge advantage during my professional
career that I've always looked like a cheerful, fat
missionary," she says, fondling her onyx pendant. "It
wouldn't be any use if you went around looking
sinister, would it?"
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Playing
Card Deck Shows Way to U.S. Regime Change:
Updated, 3:26 p.m. From a perhaps surprising source
-- The World Trade Organization in Lausanne,
Switzerland (GATT) From a WTO impersonator comes the
following:
In the wake of the U.S.'s "pre-emptive" destruction
of Iraq, her people, and her culture, the Trade
Regulation Organization is issuing a "55 most wanted"
playing-card deck similar to the one that the Pentagon issued two
weeks ago in Iraq.
The TRO, estimating that the U.S.
governing regime is no longer consistent with world
peace or prosperity, hopes that the playing cards will
show the way to regime change and, eventually,
large-scale war crimes proceedings.
The cards are here.
More on the hijacked URL later today. Link to this item | Comment
A
new voice and two old hands bring fire to Doors
favorites: Following last week's item about Jim
Morrison's heirs suing The New Doors, here's Steve
Morse's review of their Boston concert. Link to this item | Comment
The Feral Eye's Cartoon Links: New
links added daily in a bloggy way. Link to this item | Comment
Gilgamesh tomb believed
found: BBC reports, "Archaeologists in
Iraq believe they may have found the lost tomb of King
Gilgamesh - the subject of the oldest 'book' in
history." Link to this item | Comment
Garden blogs: Thanks for the tips and emails.
I hope to pull together the beginnngs of a list here
Thursday. So please send any more you find.
Subterranean Homepage News by Sheila
Lennon features & interactive producer of
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