Hello once again…
We’re on the trail of keeping track of the President. I think he gets back to the ‘home country’ today...
We want to keep the welcome mat out don’t we – out of respect for our Chief Executive – “The Annointed One” as Sean Hannity is want to say.
It is my intention to be respectful of the President and address him properly. I noted that THE NEWS CORP – which is the owner of Fox News and various other news media around the globe – including the Wall Street Journal [But they don’t own me.]require Mr. Obama to be addressed as ‘The President’ – Mr. Obama – not simply as ‘Obama’ and usually with his name rather than just ‘he’ or ‘his’ -- Fox wants to be respectful… which turns out to be sort of a one way street.
I must admit I do admire whoever came up with ‘the lame street media’ – which doesn’t exactly fit – but OTOH, they don’t exactly fit either.
I’ve been in the ‘lame street media’ from time to time as well as working for various publications or broadcasters… and I’ve tried to stick with the protocols they expect. But I must say there formerly was three wire services (ones with which I delt) AP, UP and International News. [AP is the only surviving one.. UP – United Press eventually became UPI… -- the INS [International News Service] was generally for newspapers… and not written in broadcast style. This was back in the 40’s and 50’s when teletype machines clacked away in newsrooms. Reuters has always been – at least in my experience – a British oriented news service and I’m sure there were others. WMUU in it’s AM days beginning in the fall of 1949 could only subscribe to INS because the other news services were on the other local radio outlets.
In any case magazines, newspapers and other news services have their own rules and protocols… more honored nowadays in the breach than the observance.
About today’s story… I find AP to be somewhat left-leaning… and the same is true for most of the other news services. There’s little reason to wonder why FOX news does as well as it does… Largely because the days of well-balanced and unbiased news services has generally passed. But the public doesn’t follow AP or USA Today or NYT etc. For the most part they mirror one another. The whole news ‘engine’ if you will… is a different operation by a couple of hundred percent than it was back in 1950 when I was first participating in the contest.
All that to say… I think it’s much more fun to have at least a ‘more level’ playing field. And the economics of newspapering is leveling things out a bit… helped along by the ubiquitous Internet in all its transformations. I think that… along with the independent talk radio hosts… makes for a more lively and crowded field. It’s a continuous news cycle with Twitter and all that now. There are still ups and downs… but not like there used to be when it was possible for the news media to carry on a ‘hiding’ operation that prevented the U.S. public from knowing their President (FDR) was confined to a wheel chair or braces and the public was 100% in the dark about it.
Well… this isn’t a news-gathering seminar… and I don’t consider my activities “news” per se… JUST A MINUTE is commentary on public affairs with a Christian Biblical Worldview as its primary descriptor.
I don’t know if that makes much difference to the average reader/listener (In fact some days I wonder if I have any reader/listeners other than my family… and I’m not totally sure about them. (J)…
Anyway… I enjoy working on the program for five days out of the week. And I enjoy hearing from you any time you care to chime in. (Just be polite (J).
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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Just a Minute: Occasionally, looking for just the right word for use on JUST A MINUTE, I find a gem – ah, but more later --
Searching for a phrase to sum up the President’s overseas jaunt; knocking back a brew in
See he’s been in South America when needed back home to fight three wars, and manage NATO stuff in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and now Syria -- who knows what comes next? Right now, politically, we’re in ‘hiatus’ mode – far ahead of the primary ‘gun’ which won’t fire till
I found this phrase that may explain: “…Some folks are like the bottom half of a fraction – the bigger they try to be, it turns out, the smaller they really are.”
I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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