Jim Rittenhouse's semidaily journal of news, commentary and reports
Above is a weird line from another Chinese article on the twins that appeared in the Hong Kong news for Yahoo; from the “(Ming Daily) on December 22, 2009 on Tuesday 05:10″ The article (English translation via Babelfish translation) follows after the cut. It seems to be a boil-down of the Newsweek article.
Bulgarian newspaper reporting about Serbian anger over Bulgaria’s support of Kosovar independence: Radio Television Serbia said that the Serbian delegation at the ICJ, led by ambassador Dušan Bataković, “believes that Bulgaria, as many times in history so far, has stuck a knife in Serbia’s back, by defending the secession of Kosovo”. The idea that the [...]
Dayton Daily News article; the reporter’s adopted child from China was first raised by a foster family in China, who the child hadn’t forgotten -and who hadn’t forgotten her. Great story about how the foster family and the adoptive family got in contact… Considering the whole thing with the twins and sisterfar, this hits home [...]
The local suburban daily newspaper, the Daily Herald, is reprinting the Newsweek story on the twins with different photos: http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=342760
http://www.newsweek.com/id/225492/page/1 The Power of Two: http://www.newsweek.com/id/225098 Photo gallery of the kids, etc. The Intro picture is particularly stunning. This has been in the works since spring. Newsweek came in with a Pulitzer-award winning photographer who was fresh from covering the White House and Obama and Bush to do the shots. The interviews mostly were around [...]
The article I’ve been talking about in the recent past is about to come out; more details when it’s actually available.
Discussion about a bailout bill for newspapers if they reorganize as 501c3 not-for-profits; the President had this to say about it: Obama said that good journalism is “critical to the health of our democracy,” but expressed concern toward growing tends in reporting — especially on political blogs, from which a groundswell of support for his [...]
FOIA releases of a ton of emails to and from Governor Sanford of South Carolina’s office from various TV news types (most prominently MEET THE PRESS) offering all sorts of ‘we’ll act like we’re questioning you but we’ll make sure that you get all the softballs you want, and protect you from the nasties out [...]
I am singularly uninterested in the Jackson story. I’ve seen enough oddball celebrity circuses, and the really interesting and truly weird stuff will not come out for a while for most people. I expect more news circuses repeated endlessly on the news, and I will ignore them all. Finally, someone sems to be doing something [...]
Note: one of my absolute favorite writers online was and is a fellow named Dan Froomkin – a fearless journalist who writes a blog for the Washington Post Online entitled White House Watch. (He is also found at Nieman Watchdog out of Harvard University.) Essentially, the OpEd area (and reporting) for the WaPo was a [...]
I absolutely refuse to watch the train wreck of Jon and Kate Plus Eight – haven’t for a while, and I did catch about 10 minutes of the start-of-season one before I got nauseated. I’m hearing stories about their ratings falling apart, and I’m just as glad. First off, while some find the whole thing [...]
From the NEWSWEEK photo shooting process in our backyard (as taken by Susan).
If you’re looking for canned news on this, that’s going to be hard, as most news organizations have been shut down by the Ayatollahs. Here’s the best I can come up with: Wikipedia (terms and background info): 2009 Iranian election protests term: Ansar / Ansar-e-Hezbollah term: Basij militia Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is the theocratic [...]
Some months ago, we and the other Meredith’s family were contacted by a prominent reporter for NEWSWEEK to be part of a story about a twin study that has been going on by Dr. Nancy Segal of Cal State Fullerton. (We’ve been in the separated twin study for a number of years.) When she heard [...]
…of too much to do and too little time to do it in. Jumping back into work on Wednesday, I found that our phone and internet was intermittently out, and we found and fixed the culprit. That sort of thing, when you’re working from home, really strangles you, and both Susan and I were doing [...]