When Newspapers Die
The second major newspaper in the last month will cease publication tomorrow. This isn’t the Wakulla News or the Cairo Messenger shutting down, these are heavyweights of the industry: first, the Rocky Mountain News, of Denver, Colorado, and now, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Both of these newspapers began publication well before I was born, my father was born, and even my grandfather was born. The Rocky Mountain News began publication as the split between the North and the South was growing in 1859, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer began during the Civil War in 1863.
The Post-Intelligencer will continue as an online news source, but the Rocky, as folks in Denver apparently called it, is dead. What does this mean? Is the feel of newsprint in hand fading quickly into some sort of Orwellian future? Have we sacrificed our ability to take in large amounts of information for a sound bite?
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Mike Waers
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Walk for Life
Every day in a country that was founded on the ideal that “all men are created equal” and that they are given certain rights: “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”1, Americans are murdered. These Americans don’t have the ability to run or to fight back because they have not yet been born. Seven men decided that a woman’s “right to privacy”2 overrode the child’s right to not “be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”3.
Since the judiciary of this country has failed these children, crisis pregnancy centers exist to help women who find themselves pregnant to help them to chose to protect the innocent life growing in their wombs. In Tallahassee, A Women’s Pregnancy Center is such a center, and it is conveniently located near the campus of FSU and FAMU, where much peer pressure exists for men and women to engage in sex outside of marriage.
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Rules for E-Mail
Marketing expert Seth Godin wrote a check list to go through before sending an e-mail . My favorites:
27. Am I forwarding something about religion (mine or someone else’s)? (If so, delete).
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Prince Caspian
Kathy, a friend of mine, posted to her Facebook page that she was waiting to see the second Chronicles of Narnia movie (which AMC Theatres called Narnia 2 on my ticket): Prince Capsian, which was released 2 days after my birthday. My wife and I were among the first in the United States to see the film, opting to see the showing at 1 minute after midnight (Tallahassee is on Eastern Time) showing on Friday morning. Kathy saw the film nearly 20 hours after we did, and asked me what I thought.
What I thought is a bit bigger than a Facebook message and useful to those of you waiting to see the film. Therefore, here are my thoughts on the second Narnia movie:
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