Because of their idiotic insistence on their preferred terminology. From Clay’s post on the proper terminology on the gay-people-getting-married dustup. “Gay marriage” is a stupid thing to call it. Gay people can get married now. Just not to other gay…
Month: February 2004
ACES conference update
I’ve just learned that the Hyatt in Houston hosting the ACES conference has wireless Internet access, which means if you bring your WiFi-enabled laptop or PDA you should be able to blog the conference to your heart’s content. By the…
More on same-sex marriage amendment
Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post has a nice roundup of reporting/opinion. I met Froomkin once while interviewing for a job on the Post’s web site (note to boss: this was before you hired me) … very funny guy who…
More on the dangers of SUVs
People need to know this, even news people, so I’m going to harp on it. Somebody writes in to Sheila Lennon explaining why he prefers a truck to a car: Did the people who make these reports ever think that…
Here we go
Apparently the notion of marriage between people with out-of-the-mainstream sexual proclivities poses a grave threat to our Constitution, which must therefore be amended to protect us from these evil corroders of all that is good, just and right. Must be,…
SUVs: Unsafe at any speed
Sheila Lennon excerpts Malcolm Gladwell’s wonderful New Yorker piece on the dangers of SUVs. If you haven’t read the article, get busy. It’s a shocking expose of consumer stupidity and an industry eager to cash in on it.
The problem with “Sex”
Olive Press enlists a 20something friend to explain “Sex and the City.” I’m linking this here only because my employer, like yours, covered this empty vessel of a TV show as if it were the passing of an era or…
Paging the Newsdesigner
Newsdesigner promises to start showing favorite front pages from Newseum. Can’t remember the last time I did anything that showed up on 1A. Sometimes I wonder how much better our papers would be if we put as much effort into…
Who did Dean in?
The press, of course, judging by the feedback sent to the Oregonian’s public editor. Sure, a certain amount of this is the Dean brigades looking for scapegoats. And I didn’t notice them complaining about all the fawning coverage that made…
A lightbulb moment
So I stopped by Tim Porter‘s site tonight and noted his excerpts of a seminar given by Dan Gillmor, Jeff Jarvis and Jay Rosen, who spoke at a techie teach-in down in San Diego. They were saying all the usual…