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Yeah sports is different. I'm at the copy desk now. But do me a favor next budget meeting and mention that we should actually find out why instead of covering shallowly.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Feb 16, 2008 -> 01:04 AM) It's time to reevaluate who we sentence to prison, *cough* non-violent drug prisoners *cough* I rather see a scumbag on the street have a bag of crack rocks (which is not treated as the same as cocaine or weed) on them than be an unregistered gun owner. Supreme court ruled it was unlawful to have higher sentencing for crack. Sentences were reduced across the country.

They can choke on their newspaper pizza in new york for all I care.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Feb 15, 2008 -> 11:27 PM) Yeah, what Sox4life said. Soccer riots everywhere? ? Class riots in France? They are just as violent over there, and more prone to violent protest than kids here in the states. Molotov cocktails, anyone? I wasn't implying that europe was this magical land w/o violence. But they certainly have lower rates of violent crime, and they are a population that has turned more atheist or agnostic.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Feb 15, 2008 -> 11:02 PM) Violence??? Sex??? Have you seen Japanese movies? Anime? I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm just saying some of the same s*** and maybe even worse happens in other countries and from the stats posted before...Japanese people aren't going around shooting people at the same rate. Education, education, education. Change the culture...that's the only way. good point.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Feb 15, 2008 -> 06:47 PM) That's sort of what i said way back on the first page. Bad parenting, violent tv, movies and games, no church, it all contributes. edit. Sorry, it was way back on the other thread before they separated. yeah not like the huge church-going population in Europe

you're in 4450 already? the hours don't drive me nuts. I got by with the editors loving me, I didn't have to be there that often. It's more that we produce an awful paper.

If you all ever need anything, my email will be in my name here.

NIU is in my prayers. My brothers' alma mater. Some of my friends go there. I can't imagine.

A party picking their candidate is quite different than the presidential election.

The editors and copy editors are all full-time editors and professors. The student journalists are split into beats (public health, education, public safety, Jeff. City beat, etc) where the stories are assigned based on those topics. So you have your Beat editor giving out stories and ideally the students are coming up with their own. The problem is it's all reactionary journalism b/c we are so green not only as journalists but in this town. They don't utilize the resources they have (huge # of journalists) to make a team and say, hey, find this out. The only time that happened was for when the tigers were #1 in the nation and a group did every single angle there was. I just think this is an example where we should take 10 journalists, tell them to go to first ward, talk to everyone, and figure out what pressures and movements are going on there. Not just asking the police chief what's wrong. Hell, ask the cops what they are seeing and check it out.

i think it'd be fun to have to use the convention to decide. Have 46 ballots to elect them, just like old 19th century fun.

I go to U. of Missouri (MU campus), which has the, perhaps self-acclaimed but I've heard it elsewhere as well, distinction as the #1 journalism school in the country. That's all trivial, though. But it's clear MU, Medill (NU), Columbia, and UNC are tops, tops of an education many in the profession consider useless. But here is my qualm. At MU, if a newspaper or magazine major, you will work at the Missourian. It is a daily that serves the town of Columbia. Not a student newspaper all about the University, but it's supposed to cover the town. So every semester for this J4450 class, you have a new batch of kids writing this newspaper, covering a town most are unfamiliar with, and ending up getting some weird struggle between useless stories about student life and life in the town profiling a small business owner. There are a very large # of reporters. Today, this story appeared: http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/...4-percent-2007/ Violent crime increases 34% in 2007. The cause we get in this story, is the hilarious "criminal assault" charges rose. You can't get much more literal than that, criminal assault rose, so violent crime rose. But what bugs me is that with all these reporters, we won't go out and assign them to find out what is going on. Why did crime increase so much? Is it an outlier year, or is there something going on in places like first ward, the poorest ward in Columbia, that is never covered in the paper (why would students be there)? And why won't it be covered? Because that takes a long time. It's tough enough that you have reporters inexperienced with the town they are in, but they also have one semester, and their grades are mostly based off of # of clips, or articles, in the paper. No student would take on a story like that b/c it would take a lot of work and a lot of time and at the end of it, you'd be behind the student who covered 26 BBQ festivals (like me.) For the oldest J-school in the world, and #1 in the world, we're certainly teaching journalists to do the current garbage level of reporting, listen to officials, report it. Job well done, informed citizen. Sorry for the long post.

That would last forever.

Lou Dobbs and his ad nauseum immigration anger.

but the beagle won!

QUOTE(lvjeremylv @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 05:42 PM) Eh Congress does millions of things at the same time. This notion that they stop everything just because they're working on the steroid investigation is false. It was up to baseball to fix this problem, and they turned a blind eye to it for the better part of 2 decades. I'm glad someone is stepping in and trying to do something about it. It's unfortunate that the government has to intervene, but had they not, the problem would still be rampant. thank you.

i think this is fascinating but more in the legal aspects. I don't really care for Clemens either way.

we need James k. Polk to come in office, take care of business, then leave.

come on, they are both in her party, it's not like she's choosing which presidential candidate of both parties she'll choose so she'll be in special favor. referring to pelosi : edit

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 04:52 AM) Steve Krofft had an insightful and engaging interview with Obama...Couric seemed like she was still on the Today Show. She won't make it past the May sweeps. I wish Carol Marin was still doing stories for 60 Minutes. I think that was the killer, juxtaposing it with Krofts interview made it that much worse.

i can't believe this.

reddy! You missed when Katie asked her on the third question whether she takes vitamins or coffee to stay energized. That's what was on everybody's mind.

So, regardless of the hate for Hillary Clinton, and the inevitable grimaces over her cackles, I think all of us can scratch our heads over the TeenBeat/Ladies Home Journal-esque questions Couric starts with over the first 3 minutes. This interview would scream sexist to me if it wasn't done by a woman. I can't imagine Couric being.. well, you watch the video...I tried to embed but their embed didn't work. If a noble soul could do that for me I'd be obliged. http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/ma...tml?id=3814250n As I was saying, I can't imagine this line of questioning for a presidential candidate if they were male from Couric. She is so shocked that Hillary has so much energy! And what if she doesn't win??!?!?! Like, man I thought you'd say that, but I mean, I'M tired from my job and I don't do anything! SURELY you must be exhausted right? Either this was a great job by 60 minutes to sabotage Clinton, or just proof at how awful katie couric is at her job. Because Obama's interview was great, and this had nothing to do with obama v. clinton.

QUOTE(SEALgep @ Feb 12, 2008 -> 12:26 AM) Thank you, it needed to be said. in this thread? ha