Outrage

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Press Vultures

“Every time I close my eyes, I see the image of death. I don’t care about a photograph. . . . Nobody helped. People started running away. . . . If I had reached him in time, I would have pulled him up.”

—R. Umar Abbasi, freelance photographer who shot the image of “DOOMED” New Yorker Ki Suk Han, whose imminent subway death ran on the front page of the New York Post. In New York Times interview, “After Fatal Subway Shove, Asking: Were There No Heroes?” Dec. 4, 2012

“The Post cover treatment neatly embodies everything people hate and suspect about the news media business: not only are journalists bystanders, moral and ethical eunuchs who don’t intervene when danger or evil presents itself, but perhaps they secretly root for its culmination.”

—David Carr, media critic, “Train Wreck: The New York Post’s Subway Cover,” The New York Times, Dec. 5, 2012

• For good roundup, see Julie Moos, Poynter Institute: “NY Post photog: ‘Every time I close my eyes, I see the image of death,’” Dec. 5, 2012
 
• Editorial Comment: Well, NYPost, you got our attention. . . . 

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from the International Press Institute on 2012 as the deadliest year ever for journalists worldwide? Click here.

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café  
• Cache Rendezvous, ATV News (12/5/12)—Update on Aggie basketball forward Danny Berger, who collapsed during practice Tuesday; and the ATV Holiday edition, anchored by Romina Nedakovic and Kelsey Keller 
• Post-Cold War missiles still pose world threats, defense official says, by D. Whitney Smith 
• Reindeer Run and Santa come to Providence this weekend, by Dani Hayes 
• Woman sentenced to 0-5 years in prison on drug charge, by Brandon Fonda 
•  AggieTVNews (11/29/12)—Aggies win the WAC; 11-year-old killed in tragic home accident, anchored by Kelsey Keller and Karlie Leichty   
• Wellsville planning commission approves home business permit, by Curtis Lundstrom  
• Hyde Park man sentenced on marijuana charge, by Curtis Lundstrom   
• Legally Blond: USU professor smooches student in stage drama, by Heidi Smith   

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Doomed

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Press Death Watch

News: “VIENNA, Nov 21, 2012—A total of 119 journalists have been killed so far this year as a consequence of their work, according to the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch. This is the highest figure since IPI started systematically keeping track of journalists’ killings around the world in 1997.”

“Journalists endure hardships, danger, give their lives.… so that free people may know the truth as best we can find it.  We owe them so much.”

—Louis D. Boccardi, former president, The Associated Press, 1996

“It is deeply disturbing that in spite of a clear increase in international efforts to stop attacks against journalists, this year’s death toll  is the highest on IPI record. The killing of a journalist is the ultimate, most callous, chilling form of censorship. Unless we are able to roll back the cynical tide of impunity, these killings will continue.” 

—Anthony Mills, deputy director, International Press Institute, 2012 URL

 

• Editorial Comment: The last full measure of devotion . . . 



• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs about Susan Sontag’s writing habits, on writing “in spurts”? Click here. 

• Trending: This is yesterday’s New York Post front page, showing a subway train about to crush Ki-Huck San, a mugging victim who had been pushed off the platform. Why did the photographer shoot the picture instead of helping the victim? And what were the Post editors thinking, putting this on the front page with the headline, “DOOMED”?

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café 
• AggieTVNews (11/29/12)—Aggies win the WAC; 11-year-old killed in tragic home accident, anchored by Kelsey Keller and Karlie Leichty  
• Reindeer Run and Santa come to Providence this weekend, by Dani Hayes 
• Woman sentenced to 0-5 years in prison on drug charge, by Brandon Fonda 
• Wellsville planning commission approves home business permit, by Curtis Lundstrom  
• Hyde Park man sentenced on marijuana charge, by Curtis Lundstrom   
• Legally Blond: USU professor smooches student in stage drama, by Heidi Smith   
• Mendon must raise $1.2 million for water well; sets public hearing, by Brandon Fonda   
• Country swing dance emporium coming to Smithfield? Stay tuned, by Katie Swain 

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More Writing Advice: Susan Sontag

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Sontag’s Steam

“I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in my head and I can write it down. But once something is really under way, I don’t want to do anything else. I don’t go out, much of the time I forget to eat, I sleep very little. It’s a very undisciplined way of working and makes me not very prolific. But I’m too interested in many other things.”

—Susan Sontag (1933-2004), writer, filmmaker, activist and “public intellectual,” interviewed in The Paris Review, 1995 

 

• Editorial Comment: A writer, Sontag said, is “someone who pays attention to the world.” Hear that, students?

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs about writer Ray Bradbury’s writing habits, on writing Fahrenheit 451 on a rental typewriter, 10¢ and 30 minutes at a time? Click here.

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café 
• AggieTVNews (11/29/12)—Aggies win the WAC; 11-year-old killed in tragic home accident, anchored by Kelsey Keller and Kara Leichty 
• Wellsville planning commission approves home business permit, by Curtis Lundstrom 
• Hyde Park man sentenced on marijuana charge, by Curtis Lundstrom  
• Legally Blond: USU professor smooches student in stage drama, by Heidi Smith  
• Mendon must raise $1.2 million for water well; sets public hearing, by Brandon Fonda  
• Country swing dance emporium coming to Smithfield? Stay tuned, by Katie Swain 

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Work Habits

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Ray’s 10¢

“My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this. . . . 

“I can work anywhere. . . . [W]hen I wanted to write Fahrenheit 451, I went up to UCLA and found a basement typing room where, if you inserted ten cents into the typewriter, you could buy thirty minutes of typing time.”

—Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), writer, interviewed in The Paris Review, 2010

 

• Editorial Comment: Jeesh. What might a quarter have bought?

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from early 1900s journalist and politician Charles Edward Russell on informing citizens about the role of corporations in government? Click here. 

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café 
• AggieTVNews (11/29/12)—Aggies win the WAC; 11-year-old killed in tragic home accident, anchored by Kelsey Keller and Kara Leichty 
• Wellsville planning commission approves home business permit, by Curtis Lundstrom 
• Hyde Park man sentenced on marijuana charge, by Curtis Lundstrom  
• Legally Blond: USU professor smooches student in stage drama, by Heidi Smith  
• Mendon must raise $1.2 million for water well; sets public hearing, by Brandon Fonda  
• Country swing dance emporium coming to Smithfield? Stay tuned, by Katie Swain 

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