Less than 24 hours to go.
Today is a travel day. I leave soon. Won’t be back until Friday.
To keep you entertained in the meantime:
Lesson to be learned: see Duke Lacrosse Players Scandal; Disbarment of Prosecutor Mike Nifong; Press Eats Crow
Lesson not learned: see Michael Vick prosecution news coverage. "But with this much evidence?" Oh, sure, the prosecutors have never been wrong. Vick must be guilty if the government says so. The government doesn’t lie to us. They wouldn’t make stuff up. And the beauty of it all is that the press doesn’t see its own hypocrisy. Oh, and there’s no way that race plays an issue. Of course not.
CNN: your "news" coverage on your website is horrific. Terrible. Awful. Yet better than most. That says sooo much about the current state of the press - not to say that it’s ever been much better. Clue: a woman president is definitely political news. A woman president on a television show is NOT political news. Clue: multimedia presentation of the news is fantastic. Limiting news items to video only is stupid.
Lesson to be learned: kids playing baseball in organized leagues are required to wear helmets when standing in the coach’s boxes and while running the bases.
Lesson not learned: see professional baseball coaches; Tulsa Driller’s coach Mike Coolbaugh who is now dead after being hit in the head by a line drive while standing in the coach’s box.
Lesson to be learned: drivers hate construction; see California Highway 138, shut completely down after commuters submitted highway workers to excessive abuse, including death threats, while the highway undergoes major renovations.
Lesson learned: see St. Louis shutting down all of Interstate 64 while renovating it.
