Memnison Journal

As I’ve travelled around, I’ve noted that papers rarely have out-of-town correspondents anymore, and that AP handles the vast bulk of the ‘national and international news’ appearing in 95% of papers in America.  Now, it seems that the AP is pricing itself out of smaller-town newspapers’s reach.

Some stray items:

The whole Edwards/Hunter thing just gets weirder and more frayed by the moment.  Rielle Hunter’s old website was purged off of the Internet Archive; I would imagine that required a specific request from Hunter.  And a lot of the old follow-the-money issues are getting snarly; the same deep pockets that are paying off [...]

One of the finalists:
As she watched the small form swing backwards and forth from the crystal chandelier - hands on hips, sniffing the air and squeaking inaudibly - it suddenly became clear to Madame de Pompomme that she had done the wrong thing asking Jacques to find and bring back her long-lost sister: for, whilst [...]

The end of the Ebert-Roeper show on TV (they didn’t like what Disney was going to do with it, which was to massively dumb it down and act more as a promotional effort for films than a real review thing) and the decline of newspaper staffs due to major cutbacks leads me to wonder [...]

Susan: is recovering from that leg thing that laid her up, but she’s been through a good deal of pain with it, and is only starting to get around moderately well again. She and I have been spending a lot of side time as well on a get-all-these-photos-digitally-scanned deal, where a service does the [...]

The Veteran’s Affairs Department’s head of mental health states that there’s no suicide epidemic amongst returning Iraqi War vets - and gets caught with top-secret internal emails that admit that the stated amounts are BS, and that around 1000 suicide attempts a month take place:
But in this e-mail to his top media advisor, written two [...]

Jake Tapper of ABC posits the horror story of the election season…Barack Obama is likely sneaking around and smoking cigarettes on the sly.
Next, disturbing evidence that Obama scratches his butt and picks his nose.  Sheesh.

As regular readers here may note, I’m a news junkie, and the one news show that I regularly catch is Keith Olbermann’s COUNTDOWN on MSNBC at night.  In the morning, we used to listen to NPR, but the radio has been crapping out on the reception of same, and until I can fix it, and [...]

Just found this one in a local Jiangmen paper; the original in Chinese shows pictures from the adoption papers of the girls! So the reporters *had* to have spoken with the orphanage in Jiangmen!
This version is a long longer, and just as hokey as the last one.

Someone out there with better Chinese than mine can help me with this translation - I’d be grateful. We were alerted to a story in the Chinese news services about the twins, and when I was told about it, I about fell over; it was massively messed up.
The short version is that some local [...]

liz_marcs: I Remember Townsend…
Read this. Powerful.

Yes, these are bad guys. Why can’t you say in public what you’re doing to them?
Yes, there’s a lot of need for recovery money for the effects of 9-11. Where did the loan money go, and how is Bill Clinton responsible for that one?
Yes, there’s been no accountability from the press and Congress [...]