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Friday, August 12, 2005
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As a novice Knoxville newswatcher, one of the things I liked about
South Knox Bubba's weblog (besides the "Friday Bird Blogging") was his series of
timely alerts to hot topics turning up in more East Tennessee newspapers than I could find at
the corner drugstore...
Heck, without him, I might could have missed the wave of
cockfighting-arrest stories earlier
this summer. SKB put his trusty copy of Photoshop to work and came up
with a "cockfight alert" thermometer modeled after the terrorism alert
color code system...
Enough old news. Earlier today an equally nostalgic colleague sent me the cockfighting picture
from this blog in Texas and asked if there was a way to get it to
Bubba... Hmm. Photoshop... cockfighting... a familiar level of
affection for George W. Bush (expressed in words guaranteed to outrage
a good chunk of the hometown folks)... and it's a picture of birds on a
Friday! These are familiar characteristics.
So here's my new theory: Maybe SKB has moved in South Austin, and is blogging in drag as "Twisty Faster"... Check it out: I blame the patriarchy: Cockfight!
(Nah... SKB's Photoshop mashups were smoother, but I still think he'll
get a chuckle out of the picture, the site in general, and my "theory."
OK, then?)
7:00:25 PM 
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What should journalists do to earn public trust? What do White House
correspondents really think of the Bush administration? Is the Internet
making plagiarism easier in the nation's newsrooms? Read all
about it in the AEJMC
Reporter, online this week from Austin, Texas, with daily
stories and pictures from the association's annual convention.
At the Association for Education in
Journalism & Mass Communication
annual gathering, "convention paper" usually means the hundreds of
academic research papers presented by faculty and grad students from
across the nation.
This year, more than two-dozen students and
faculty are returning to their professional roots, working as
reporters, photographers and editors to produce a convention daily,
covering keynote speeches, panel discussions and things to do in Austin
(one headline: "Visitors beat the heat, stay indoors"). Newspaper Division head
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and Lorraine Branham, both of UT-Austin, are
co-publishers, with Robert Bohler of Texas Christian
Univeristy as editor.
(For the full staff box, see the left column of the online paper
itself.)
In the inaugural edition's welcome
story, Branham and Rivas-Rodriguez said the paper is not just
a service to the membership.
"We also want to demonstrate the skills we
teach our students," they said. "And for our professors, it[base ']s a chance
to show that
we not only teach ... we do."
The online edition was published in both PDF and HTML formats by Ajit
D'Sa of trnsfr Studios,
Austin. The Newspaper
Division home page also carries a link to the AEJMC
Reporter's website.
Late addition: I suggested to Ajit that students who contributed to the
paper might want a direct link to their work for their c.v., and some
faculty might want to link to a specific story for a class discussion.
He came up with a handy numbering system for the stories. You can link
to any story by adding its date and its position on that day's story
menu to the Web address, like this:
aejmc.net/SAT05/?20050811&story=12
That
link leads to #12 on the August 11 paper's story list, "Session teaches
teachers how to teach grammar."
This one,
aejmc.net/SAT05/?20050811&story=10, is "Is blogging
journalism?", the story whose headline appears two lines higher on the
list.Update
note: My blogging software has been having trouble with the Web
addresses above that have ampersands in them. Those specific-story
addresses should end with a questionmark, the paper's date (20050811),
an ampersand, and "story=10" (or whatever position the story's headline
is on that days AEJMC Reporter page). They should not have an
ampersand followed by the letters "amp" and a semicolon.
10:47:03 AM
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2008
Bob Stepno.
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7/19/08; 1:08:02 PM.
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