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So you’re the manager of a PBS station. It’s pledge drive time. You want to a) rake in the dough and b) get viewers to encourage Congress not to pull the plug on federal funding. Who do you turn to?
Ugh, not a good morning. Suffice it to say that the casa de Lott has woodpecker problems and I’m not laughing. Readers, how do you tell a woodpecker to get lost? Bear in mind that I can’t get a clean shot at him and I’ve already tried the “Hey, let’s try some knocking too to see how you like it!” trick. I think he thought he’d found a mate.
The Times of London’s Ruth Gledhill is ecstatic at the appointment of John Sentamu, the Uganda-born Bishop of Birmingham, as the next Archbishop of York:
It looks like the first casualty in D.C.’s newspaper wars (started when the Examiner moved into town) is the ugly, hard-to-navigate design of the old Washington Times website. Good riddance, I say.
Want to read the hellish Godbeat story of the day? It’s in The Washington Post, with the headline “Mississippi Turning.” Yes, it’s rather old New Journalism in its approach. Lots of one word sentences. Many. A lack of verbs. Reporter Neely Tucker hovers everywhere in that analysis way that the Post favors in its edgy Style pages.
Ruth Gledhill of the Times of London has done a fine job of condensing the Archbishop of Canterbury’s 4,500-word lecture on journalists into a news story of one-ninth that length. As journalists often do — and I make no claim to escaping this habit — Gledhill focused on the most pointed language in the archbishop’s text, in which he said this about web-based journalism:
Want to see the difference between the MSM and the new “niche” news sites? Then take a look at these stories about Krishna Rajanna and the closing of his Affordable Medical and Surgical Services business in Kansas City, Kan.
When addressing members of the Evangelical Press Association in April, Anne Graham Lotz cited her father as a Christian who has remained focused on evangelism, even at age 86. Laurie Goodstein of The New York Times provides the details on what a toll Graham’s age has taken on his health, and the result is far more interesting than a snapshot of a plaster saint:
The New York Times has a nice news news feature today about the large internship program for young conservatives at the Heritage Foundation here on Capitol Hill. The facility even includes dorm rooms that are the envy of many, or so it seems.
