Friday, September 30, 2005
THE FIRST AMENDMENT CENTER has a run-down of six First Amendment-related cases set to come up before the Supreme Court in its next session.
Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao Do Vegetal (Nov. 1)
Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic & Institutional Rights (Dec. 6)
Wisconsin Right to Life Inc. v. Federal Election Commission
Garcetti v. Ceballos
City of Boerne v. Flores
consolidated cases of:
Randall v. Sorrell
Vermont Republican State Committee, et al., v. Sorrell
Sorrell v. Randall
2:40:00 PM
Thursday, September 29, 2005
WEEK 4 NFL PICKS.
Buffalo at New Orleans
Denver at Jacksonville
Detroit at Tampa Bay
Houston at Cincinnati
Indianapolis at Tennessee
San Diego at New England
Seattle at Washington
St. Louis at N.Y. Giants
N.Y. Jets at Baltimore
Dallas at Oakland
Minnesota at Atlanta
Philadelphia at Kansas City
San Francisco at Arizona
Green Bay at Carolina
7:43:00 AM
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
BAD LEDE ALERT!
About 6.2 million Americans get something every year, and it's not just a birthday.
1:48:00 PM
THE PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY VANGUARD has an opinion piece up about Southern Illinois University and the whole Kodee Kennings story.
It's easy to see how the (New York) Times could see (former SIU Daily Egyptian Editor Michael) Brenner's foibled counterfeit as a humorous endnote. In an era where male prostitutes hold positions in the White House press core it's hard to see the ridiculous fraud of a small time student publication as anything dire. But the perjury of Michael Brenner represents a much more worrisome trend. His fabrication, the result of hyper concern over his career, was a calculated decision to disregard the ethical responsibilities of his position. That a student, more than a year away from graduation, would endanger, and ultimately ruin, his career as a journalist, keeping up his ruse for two years, is a telling indication that the education he received at SIU ultimately failed him.
But it's not just SIU that needs to recognize this failure but the institution of higher education in general. Brenner's act, while admittedly an outrageous one, is just an example of how educational institutions, beginning well before college, are concentrating so heavily on creating a work force, on the bottom line, that they're ignoring their responsibility to well roundedness of their students.
And that's certainly a good argument to come out of this whole mess.
8:12:00 AM
NEIL GAIMAN INTERVIEW at The Onion A.V. Club.
8:05:00 AM
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
IN HIS LATEST COLUMN, the tastefully named Gregg Easterbrook pimps "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations" by James Surowiecki.
And yes, I used "pimps."
1:37:00 PM
MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY (Ky.) Trailblazer had 7,000 of 7,200 copies of an issue stolen.
An unitentified called said that if the paper did not retract a story, the papers would be destroyed. The student editors didn't think twice about the call.
What may be worse is this quote:
"They [campus police] didn't take it too seriously because the newspapers are free and they didn't consider it a theft," said Ashley Sorrell, editor in chief of the paper. But the staff reprinted the issue at a cost of $2,000
10:48:00 AM
ADAM FORTIER, founder of Speakeasy Comics, talks with Michael May over at Comic World News.
10:19:00 AM
NFL WEEK 3 PICK'EM RESULTS.
Week 3: Whoops, forgot.
Week 2: 7-9, 43.75%
Week 1: 7-9, 43.75%
Year to date: 14-18, 43.75%
8:33:00 AM
Monday, September 26, 2005
OVER AT THE COMIC TREADMILL, there's a run down of Full Moon Fever and H says that there's a few minor complaints, but it's worth reading nonetheless.
Jaw dropping moments of blood/violence when the creatures strike - characters get sliced in half in moments that are half "ewwwww gross" and half funny in the way that pop culture violence can be when executed well.
8:28:00 AM
THE SYRACUSE (N.Y.) Daily Orange had an interesting article about dormlife, including a top 10 list of the people who live there.
8:21:00 AM
Sunday, September 25, 2005
THE RIGHT TO WATCH, WEEK 2.
Games televised in the local market today.
Noon
CBS: Cincinnati at Chicago
FOX: Tampa Bay at Green Bay
Bonus FOX: Atlanta at Buffalo
3 p.m.
New England at Pittsburgh
3:34:00 PM
SPX News.
AdHouse announces Project: Romantic.
Shawn Hoke's booty.
10:12:00 AM
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Mike Sterling has his own review of Local #1, as well as a round-up of others who have reviewed it.
So far, the outlook is positive.
($2.99, Nov. 9, Oni Press)
8:19:00 AM
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
BREAKING NEWS:
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY: Student newspaper designated as public forum.
By designating the Daily Vidette as a public forum, Bowman has indicated his intent to guarantee that Vidette editors have the highest level of freedom of the press possible under the June decision in Hosty v. Carter, where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a student newspaper must be designated a as a public forum for editors to have strong First Amendment protection. The decision only impacts students in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, and is being appealed to the Supreme Court.
UPDATE: The Daily Vidette's Web site. Nothing about the public forum yet, but I'll keep an eye out.
8:08:00 AM
It's old, but a goodie: a Daily Northwestern Ode to Chipotle.
7:56:00 AM
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
The Student Press Law Center reports that students petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the Hosty v. Carter case.
8:16:00 AM
NFL Week 2 Pick'em Results.
Week 2: 7-9, 43.75%
Week 1: 7-9, 43.75%
Year to date: 14-18, 43.75%
8:08:00 AM
Monday, September 19, 2005
The Eau Claire (Wis.) Spectator chimes in with an editorial about the Hosty decision.
8:19:00 AM
The right to watch.
Games televised in my local market yesterday:
Noon
CBS: New England at Carolina
Fox: Detroit at Chicago
3 p.m.
CBS: Cleveland at Green Bay
8:08:00 AM
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Leaning Blue reflects upon the terms used to describe those displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
9:58:00 AM
BeaucoupKevin has thoughts on Brian Wood's Local.
9:28:00 AM
The Harvard Crimson had a long narrative story about strippers that I was going to link to, but now there seems to be an error with the URL. Hopefully this is just a technical problem.
UPDATE: The link is fixed.
8:53:00 AM
Friday, September 16, 2005
Comic Store Booty.
The Black Diamond On Ramp, Larry Young and Jon Proctor / Smoke and Guns, Kirsten Baldock and Fabio Moon (Ait/Planet Lar)
Tozzer 2 #1, Rob Dunlop and Peter Lumby (Ablaze Media)
Oz: The Manga #1, David Hutchison (Antarctic Press)
Shaolin Cowboy #2, Geofrey Darrow (Burlyman Entertainment)
Following Cerebus #5 (Aardvark-Vanaheim/Win-Mill Productions)
7:37:00 PM
The Hosty decision has reached California, where a memo circulated by a general counsel at California State University said that colleges may have more leeway to censor than originally thought.
"We got kind of nervous," said Brea Jones, a news editor for The Orion, the student newspaper at CSU-Chico. "We are not certain that CSU or our university in particular is really interested in censorship, but it alarms us that they would apply Hosty v. Carter to California universities."
Jones said her paper is in talks with CSU-Chico's president to recognize its status as a "designated public forum," which would exempt the paper from any effects the Hosty decision may have in California.
8:06:00 AM
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Johanna has a review of Local, Brian Wood's latest effort.
8:50:00 AM
The Southern Illinoisian has an op/ed about the Daily Egyptian story.
But what about students or even seasoned journalists tempted to overreach and fabricate? The message from journalism teachers and newsroom chieftains must be consistent and communicated again and again: Facts must be the heart and soul of the news columns even if they occasionally cost the story or the front page a bit of sparkle.
8:32:00 AM
Week 2 NFL Picks.
Baltimore at Tennessee
Buffalo at Tampa Bay
Detroit at Chicago
Jacksonville at Indianapolis
Minnesota at Cincinnati
New England at Carolina
Pittsburgh at Houston
San Francisco at Philadelphia
Atlanta at Seattle
St. Louis at Arizona
Cleveland at Green Bay
Miami at N.Y. Jets
San Diego at Denver
Kansas City at Oakland
N.Y. Giants at New Orleans
Washington at Dallas
8:12:00 AM
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Scott Goldstein, the University of Maryland Diamonback's ombudsman, says the paper should have taken an earlier, more community-oriented role in reporting the changes in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
As a student newspaper with relatively limited resources, readers should not expect The Diamondback to provide them with in-depth coverage of most national and international news events. For that, readers have plenty of professional newspapers to turn to. However, this story is one with enough impact and potential angles that it could dominate the pages of even more narrowly focused publications, including The Diamondback.
11:04:00 AM
University of North Florida editor found dead of apparent suicide
11:02:00 AM
NFL Week 1 Pick'em Results:
7-9, 43.75%
This was only my second losing week dating back to the beginning of last season.
Week 10: 6-8; 42.86% (My first losing week.)
10:51:00 AM
Monday, September 12, 2005
Shawn Hoke has the SPX Anthology cover. Earlier, Tom Spurgeon had the line-up.
8:49:00 AM
It's the Saints for me, too.
8:42:00 AM
Officials at the University of New Hampshire have warned students about the risks of blogging after an incident last year in which the student magazine published a sex survey with a response from a "well known feminist activist."
The student newspaper started to cover it and one of the student journalists covering the story wrote on his blog that "I'd (expletive deleted) rape the face" of the feminist activist.
8:33:00 AM
Saturday, September 10, 2005
The Ithaca (Ithaca, N.Y.) College Ithacan has a story about how difficult it is for students to transition after coming home from a semester studying abroad.
Although their experiences were starkly different, Sherwin and Chandra share a sense of reverse culture shock mixed with nostalgia for their host countries. By the time any given class graduates from Ithaca College, 24 percent of the students will experience what Sherwin and Chandra are going through, according to the Office of International Programs. They return to Ithaca after spending months in another culture overseas, after having a different adventure every day.
...
Students come back excited about their semester away but may have difficulty expressing their experience to their friends who weren't there with them. And students who studied in developing countries often come back feeling guilty about the privileges people have in the United States, said Rachel Cullenen, associate director of study abroad.
3:12:00 PM
The University of Missouri-Columbia Maneater has a great football preview cover.
3:08:00 PM
Friday, September 09, 2005
Week 1 NFL Picks.
Oakland at New England
Chicago at Washington
Cincinnati at Cleveland
Denver at Miami
Houston at Buffalo
New Orleans at Carolina
N.Y. Jets at Kansas City
Seattle at Jacksonville
Tampa Bay at Minnesota
Tennessee at Pittsburgh
Arizona at N.Y. Giants
Dallas at San Diego
Green Bay at Detroit
St. Louis at San Francisco
Indianapolis at Baltimore
Philadelphia at Atlanta
9:24:00 AM
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Keith Phipps at The Onion reviews Pyongyang: A Journey In North Korea.
8:23:00 AM
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
The Boston Globe (yes, it's a few days late) writes about the Hosty decision.
7:55:00 AM
Friday, September 02, 2005
Pixelsurgeon reviews He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
11:36:00 AM
Thursday, September 01, 2005
A former Southern Illinois University Daily Egyptian reporter now believes that an e-mail he received purportedly from Sgt. Dan Kennings was in fact from Jaimie Reynolds, the woman at the center of the unraveling of the hoax.
1:25:00 PM
Chicago Tribune Public Editor Don Wycliff, spurred on by an e-mail, examines "Jesus Christ" as an epithet and invokes the "obscenities, profanities, vulgarities" style note.
1:12:00 PM
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