Pork Bellies

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Friendlyvision
WORDmeister Note: Yesterday would have been Fred Friendly’s 97th birthday.

“Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It’s a commodity now, just like pork bellies.”

—Fred Friendly (born Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer, 1915-1998), TV news pioneer, producer and CBS News president. (see Ralph Engleman’s 2009 biography, Friendlyvision.) Image: CBS, 1962

(Thanks to alert WORDster Alexandra Halsey)

 

• Longtime CBS News colleague Dan Rather called Friendly “a fierce and mighty warrior for the best . . . principles in journalism, . . . for his friends, and for his country. He never gave up, he never gave in; he never backed down, and he never backed up.”

• Editorial Comment: Some TV gives pork bellies a bad name.

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from the Poynter Institute’s Craig Silverman about fake photos of Hurricane Sandy? Click here.

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café


• Cache Rendezvous from Aggie TV News: Cache Valley’s TV magazine show (10/30/12)

• Presidential candidate blasts press for short-changing U.S. citizens, by D. Whitney Smith
• Rocky Anderson: 3rd party presidential candidate comes to USU (includes full video of his talk)
• ATV News: Tibetan monks, LDS Democrats, Pumpkin Walk & sports (10/24/12)
• Public hearing on short-term rentals in Providence gets no response, by Dani Hayes
• Landmark Construction wins contract for Smithfield Civic Center, by Katie Swain
• School board discusses rezoning of Logan’s gravel pit area, by Heidi Vaughan
• Where does taxpayer money go? Richmond’s recorder knows, by Heidi Vaughan
• Obama-Romney too close to call, opinion pollster tells USU audience, by Shayna Marcure

PeezPIX by Ted Pease

Cache Valley Autumn, Utah State University campus
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(Be)Friend Dr. Ted, Professor of Interesting Stuff 

Hurricane Fakery

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FrankenSandy

Image: Circulating widely online, this is a Photoshop fake.

“There’s a simple truth in journalism: big weather brings an onslaught of fake images.

“This is already fully on display with Sandy, as evidenced by an old shot taken at the Tomb of the Unknowns that’s circulating today, along with several other fake or old images that have taken flight on Twitter and Instagram.

“A new site called ‘Is Twitter Wrong?’ is listing fake images. BuzzFeed has also built a list of nine fake images, as well as a quiz you can take to test your skills at spotting fakes. Similarly, The Atlantic has started sorting out the fake Sandy photos from the real ones.’” . . .

“Overall, remember to always beware of ‘amazing shots’ that circulate during breaking news situations. Events like Sandy are ideal for hoaxes, and they love nothing more than getting the press to share their handiwork.”

—Craig Silverman, editor, Regret the Error, The Poynter Institute, “How journalists can avoid getting fooled by fake Hurricane Sandy photos,” Oct. 29, 2012

• Editorial Comment: Hey! Isn’t that Charlie’s boat? Seeing ain’t believing for media-smart folk in the Brave New Twitterworld..

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Matt Wuerker about the impact of editorial cartoons? Click here.

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café


• Rocky Anderson: 3rd party presidential candidate comes to USU (includes full video of his talk)
• ATV News: Tibetan monks, LDS Democrats, Pumpkin Walk & sports (10/24/12)
• Public hearing on short-term rentals in Providence gets no response, by Dani Hayes
• Landmark Construction wins contract for Smithfield Civic Center, by Katie Swain
• School board discusses rezoning of Logan’s gravel pit area, by Heidi Vaughan
• Where does taxpayer money go? Richmond’s recorder knows, by Heidi Vaughan
• Obama-Romney too close to call, opinion pollster tells USU audience, by Shayna Marcure

PeezPIX by Ted Pease

The old perfesser
https://www.facebook.com/PerfesserTed

1,000 Words

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What’s So Funny?

“Forget the conventions; forget the debates; and forget the $2 billion-plus being spent to caricature the candidates with negative TV ads. The things that truly cement the popular image of our presidential candidates are the cartoons. Nothing captures the candidate’s image — and I mean, not just physical features but also the character, the flaws and the foibles — more than the little graphic icons that are created by the country’s political cartoonists. . . . 

“I know, hearing this from a cartoonist is like having Ben or Jerry tell you that there’s nothing sweeter than ice cream — but it’s true! There is nothing like ice cream, and there’s nothing like a well-drawn and sharply honed political caricature.” 

—Matt Wuerker, 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, POLITICO, October 2012 URL 

• Editorial Comment: Laugh ’til ye weep.

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from Chief Justice Earl Warren about reading the sports page first? Click here.

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café


• Rocky Anderson: 3rd party presidential candidate comes to USU (includes full video of his talk)
• ATV News: Tibetan monks, LDS Democrats, Pumpkin Walk & sports (10/24/12)
• Public hearing on short-term rentals in Providence gets no response, by Dani Hayes
• Landmark Construction wins contract for Smithfield Civic Center, by Katie Swain
• School board discusses rezoning of Logan’s gravel pit area, by Heidi Vaughan
• Where does taxpayer money go? Richmond’s recorder knows, by Heidi Vaughan
• Obama-Romney too close to call, opinion pollster tells USU audience, by Shayna Marcure

PeezPIX by Ted Pease

The old perfesser
https://www.facebook.com/PerfesserTed

Priorities

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Box Scores

“I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.”

—Earl Warren (1891-1974), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1953-1969)

• Editorial Comment: The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat.... (Go Giants!)

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs about Clark Kent throwing a fit and quitting the Daily Planet in the latest Superman comic book? Click here.

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café


• TODAY! Rocky Anderson comes to USU to talk press ‘deception’ & presidential politics
• ATV News: Tibetan monks, LDS Democrats, Pumpkin Walk & sports (10/24/12)
• Public hearing on short-term rentals in Providence gets no response, by Dani Hayes
• Landmark Construction wins contract for Smithfield Civic Center, by Katie Swain
• School board discusses rezoning of Logan’s gravel pit area, by Heidi Vaughan
• Where does taxpayer money go? Richmond’s recorder knows, by Heidi Vaughan
• Obama-Romney too close to call, opinion pollster tells USU audience, by Shayna Marcure

PeezPIX by Ted Pease

Click here for larger image: “Autumn” in Northern Utah

Super Meltdown

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Take This Job and Shove It!

METROPOLIS—“The Daily Planet has a new job opening. In Superman issue 13, the Man of Steel’s alter ego, mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, quits the Metropolis newspaper that has been his employer since the DC Comics superhero’s earliest days in 1940. . . .

“‘This is really what happens when a 27-year-old guy is behind a desk and he has to take instruction from a larger conglomerate with concerns that aren't really his own,’ [comic author Scott] Lobdell explains. . . .

“‘I don't think he's going to be filling out an application anywhere,’ the writer says. ‘He is more likely to start the next Huffington Post or the next Drudge Report than he is to go find someone else to get assignments or draw a paycheck from.’”

—Brian Truitt, “Clark Kent makes a major life change in new ‘Superman’: Mild-mannered reporter leaves The Daily Planet,’” USAToday, Oct. 23, 2012

• Editorial Comment: Tweet that, Perry White!

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from writer Louis Menand on how journalists and historians see the past? Click here.

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café


• FRIDAY Rocky Anderson comes to USU to talk press ‘deception’ & presidential politics
•  Aggie TV News: (10/17/12) $512,861,410! USU announces conclusion of successful capital campaign; USU tennis coach fired; celebrating successful $400 million USU capital campaign; student response to presidential debates; Aggie woman swims English Channel, sports, northern Utah weather & more.
• Where does taxpayer money go? Richmond’s recorder knows, by Heidi Vaughan
• Obama-Romney too close to call, opinion pollster tells USU audience, by Shayna Marcure
• Smithfield cyclist survives crash, shows up for his own benefit dinner, by Heidi Vaughan
• Richmond Lions join with Logan couple to give glasses to the masses, by Katie Swain

• Opinion: Book nazis—Keep your mitts off my reading lists! by Ted Pease 
• Craving a little freak out? Try the Heritage Center’s Haunted Hallow, by Shayna Marcure

PeezPIX by Ted Pease

Click here for larger image: “Autumn” in Northern Utah

Revisionism

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The Way It Was

“Journalism and history are about getting things right. But the past has many uses, and one of them is to inspire the present. People in any profession like to create an imaginary past, populated by the Ones Who Came Before. Sometimes, we figure these people to be narrow-minded fools and feel motivated to demonstrate our own superior tolerance and sophistication. More honorably, if not necessarily more accurately, we imagine our predecessors as nobler and braver than our small and anxious selves—as men and women who stuck up for principle and, by their righteousness, moved the world.”

—Louis Menand, writer, “Seeing It Now: Walter Cronkite and the legend of CBS News,” The New Yorker, July 2012.

• Editorial Comment: Were we better then? Were we ever?

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from President Richard Nixon on the power of the media? Click here.

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café


• Rocky Anderson comes to USU to talk press ‘deception’ & presidential politics
•  Aggie TV News: (10/17/12) $512,861,410! USU announces conclusion of successful capital campaign; USU tennis coach fired; celebrating successful $400 million USU capital campaign; student response to presidential debates; Aggie woman swims English Channel, sports, northern Utah weather & more.
• Where does taxpayer money go? Richmond’s recorder knows, by Heidi Vaughan
• Obama-Romney too close to call, opinion pollster tells USU audience, by Shayna Marcure
• Smithfield cyclist survives crash, shows up for his own benefit dinner, by Heidi Vaughan
• Richmond Lions join with Logan couple to give glasses to the masses, by Katie Swain

• Opinion: Book nazis—Keep your mitts off my reading lists! by Ted Pease 
• Craving a little freak out? Try the Heritage Center’s Haunted Hallow, by Shayna Marcure

PeezPIX by Ted Pease   

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