Looking back I now realize that wondering how I was going to accomplish various project obligations, at times separated by hundreds of miles, while balancing my personal life, should have never frustrated me as much as it sometimes did. After all, I had more work than I could accomplish at any given time. In these [...]
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I often look at my 3 year old son and wonder what he will be when he grows up. Will he be a doctor, a lawyer or a fireman? Maybe he will develop the Facebook of his time (I can only hope). I suppose my parents had the same thoughts (they’re probably still wondering). For [...]
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What exactly IS sensationalism? SENSATIONALISM: “subject matter; language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste” FACT: “something that actually exists; reality; truth” Do you believe in Pink Slime? Are you willing to feed into the frenzy created by the media??? As an American, we [...]
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Years ago as a young journalist working with publisher/editor Frank and Sally Morlan at the Sheldon (Iowa) Mail-Sun Newspapers, Frank taught me the ethics of community journalism. He’d point out the good and the bad, the acceptable and non-acceptable, and what was responsible and irresponsible. Be fair, he told me, and be honest. You supply the facts [...]
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Beef Products Incorporated closed plants in Texas, Kansas and in Waterloo, Iowa. Around 650 workers lost their jobs including 220 in Waterloo. BPI was founded 31 years ago by Eldon and Regina Roth who traveled to Waterloo from the company’s headquarters to say good-bye to the workers. Iowa Public Radio’s Pat Blank talked with Regina [...]
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How many of you have got on the computer to do your work or pay bills, but before opening your application to perform those actual tasks you log into; Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Blogger, Gmail, etc? Well, you get my point, Social Media is taking over our lives, well mine anyway. Billions (yes, I said [...]
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I see the effect in Harper’s eyes , my three-year old son, when I tell him ‘No’, and when my daughter, Kelsey, comes home from grade school after having a disagreement with one of her friends. Words can bring our self-esteem so low that we start to believe what we are hearing. We call it [...]
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