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CANDIDATE FORUM ON-LINE
The League of Women Voters sponsored a forum for At-Large Candidates for Greensboro City Council. Around 75 citizens attended, including some media types and one media outlet that cared enough to actually tape the entire program.
If you were not able to attend the forum, you can view it on line at
Cable News Channel 14. I am thrilled that Channel 14 cared enough to send a camera crew and reporter. Now anyone with access to an on-line computer can see and hear the candidates answer questions and give their pitch to voters.
We no longer have to read edited versions of what candidates said. We can see and hear them at our convenience - and over and over if we care to. Anyone who actually attended the forum had an opportunity to write a question to be asked of the candidates.
Thank you News 14.
Cable News Channel 14.
Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Thanks News and Record
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The N&R finally gets it ! ! !
The new 2007 Election Blog is publishing questions and answers from local candidates.
I Hope this information will be published in the print editions, also.
I was not thrilled with some of the questions (and some of the answers), but I appreciate the fact that the candidates' answers, in their own words, are finally being published. This is a much better way to inform voters than the old way of publishing filtered information.
Editorial Opinions are fine, but should not be included in news articles about candidates, either intentionally or unintentionally.
See posts from October, 2005 and here
The N&R finally gets it ! ! !
The new 2007 Election Blog is publishing questions and answers from local candidates.
I Hope this information will be published in the print editions, also.
I was not thrilled with some of the questions (and some of the answers), but I appreciate the fact that the candidates' answers, in their own words, are finally being published. This is a much better way to inform voters than the old way of publishing filtered information.
Editorial Opinions are fine, but should not be included in news articles about candidates, either intentionally or unintentionally.
See posts from October, 2005 and here
N&R denies citizen comment space
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Update to last nights's post below:
OOPS! MY BAD! Apparently I double clicked to post my comment at The Inside Scoop and was only allowed to post it one time. Thank you N&R for allowing my comment to post. I was too quick to complain. I'll try to click on the submit button once lightly if I comment again. Sorry!
I tried to comment on the Inside Scoop post about the Canada Dry Property. I was denied the right to post a comment because I have posted too many comments in too short a time. What a way to engage the public in conversation.
My comment was about why the appraiser suggested that the best use of the property would be an addition to the Coliseum and that a hotel wouldn't work on the site.
"But the appraiser doesn't think a hotel would work there. He says the best use of the property is for it to become part of the Greensboro Coliseum or some sort of business - maybe a restaurant or a auto dealership."
Sounds like an old developer's threat that if you don't let me put what I want on the property something really bad could be built here, maybe a used car lot or a recycling center (junk yard) or even a drive-thru fast food place or adult video store. I wonder why this comment was made by an appraiser. Does the appraiser have any connection to the Koury Corp.? Would a new hotel be too close to the Koury Center?
Questions, questions.
Update to last nights's post below:
OOPS! MY BAD! Apparently I double clicked to post my comment at The Inside Scoop and was only allowed to post it one time. Thank you N&R for allowing my comment to post. I was too quick to complain. I'll try to click on the submit button once lightly if I comment again. Sorry!
I tried to comment on the Inside Scoop post about the Canada Dry Property. I was denied the right to post a comment because I have posted too many comments in too short a time. What a way to engage the public in conversation.
My comment was about why the appraiser suggested that the best use of the property would be an addition to the Coliseum and that a hotel wouldn't work on the site.
"But the appraiser doesn't think a hotel would work there. He says the best use of the property is for it to become part of the Greensboro Coliseum or some sort of business - maybe a restaurant or a auto dealership."
Sounds like an old developer's threat that if you don't let me put what I want on the property something really bad could be built here, maybe a used car lot or a recycling center (junk yard) or even a drive-thru fast food place or adult video store. I wonder why this comment was made by an appraiser. Does the appraiser have any connection to the Koury Corp.? Would a new hotel be too close to the Koury Center?
Questions, questions.
An Amazing Accomplishment
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LONG LIVE THE PRINTED NEWSPAPER ! ! !
I am a little late to the conversation with Joe about the Printing Press. I am obviously a bit older than he because my first job at a newspaper was as an apprentice typesetter. I will not mention the year, but X-acto knives were not part of the composing/layout process. For years the presses could be seen from the street outside the building through large windows.
Linotype machines clicked away in the composing room as they dropped one slug at a time. A heavy piece of lead called a pig hung on the machine and melted a little as each letter was formed. Galley proofs were made on a hand press which was inked by hand and then a sheet of newsprint was placed over the type and a roller was passed over it to make an ink impression. The proofs were read and then corrections were made by hand, one line at a time. Because the type was not "read right" on the lead galley, the dump man (who made the proof pages and then corrected the galleys) had to read the lead upside down and backward. The make-up people put the lead galleys together to form individual pages. They worked on heavy wheeled tables called turtles. What a different world.
Headlines were set by hand, one letter at a time. I think that typesetting is where the old saying "mind your p's and q's" originated.
One of the good things about modern cold type composition is that I can't remember seeing a corrections line put in upside down. This happened frequently with the old lead corrections. Who remembers that?
It is always amazing to me that an entire newspaper can be written, edited, composed, proofed, printed and delivered every single day. What an accomplishment. One of the papers where I was employed published 5 editions a day. They were shipped all over the state. Long live the printed news ! ! !
LONG LIVE THE PRINTED NEWSPAPER ! ! !
I am a little late to the conversation with Joe about the Printing Press. I am obviously a bit older than he because my first job at a newspaper was as an apprentice typesetter. I will not mention the year, but X-acto knives were not part of the composing/layout process. For years the presses could be seen from the street outside the building through large windows.
Linotype machines clicked away in the composing room as they dropped one slug at a time. A heavy piece of lead called a pig hung on the machine and melted a little as each letter was formed. Galley proofs were made on a hand press which was inked by hand and then a sheet of newsprint was placed over the type and a roller was passed over it to make an ink impression. The proofs were read and then corrections were made by hand, one line at a time. Because the type was not "read right" on the lead galley, the dump man (who made the proof pages and then corrected the galleys) had to read the lead upside down and backward. The make-up people put the lead galleys together to form individual pages. They worked on heavy wheeled tables called turtles. What a different world.
Headlines were set by hand, one letter at a time. I think that typesetting is where the old saying "mind your p's and q's" originated.
One of the good things about modern cold type composition is that I can't remember seeing a corrections line put in upside down. This happened frequently with the old lead corrections. Who remembers that?
It is always amazing to me that an entire newspaper can be written, edited, composed, proofed, printed and delivered every single day. What an accomplishment. One of the papers where I was employed published 5 editions a day. They were shipped all over the state. Long live the printed news ! ! !
RE: a tip for the N&R
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I agree with dhoggard’s suggestion
We need more investigative reporting by people who are paid to do it. Just repeating what the government tells lets us in on is not enough. Good reporting includes looking under the covers and behind the doors.
Over-payments and juggling money around are not new. I have questioned some of Greensboro's expenditures that have been passed under the guise of the "Consent Agenda." Check out a questions I asked long ago.
I am a big proponent of open government, especially when it concerns public money.
I agree with dhoggard’s suggestion
We need more investigative reporting by people who are paid to do it. Just repeating what the government tells lets us in on is not enough. Good reporting includes looking under the covers and behind the doors.
Over-payments and juggling money around are not new. I have questioned some of Greensboro's expenditures that have been passed under the guise of the "Consent Agenda." Check out a questions I asked long ago.
I am a big proponent of open government, especially when it concerns public money.
Civic Leadership
According to the N&R this morning, I have no civic leadership listed in my qualifications for Greensboro City Council. I thought the reporters and editors at the N&R kept up with local blogs. Apparently nobody there has read mine.
I have listed some of my volunteer activities and my leadership activities on this blog and in the news release that was sent to local media outlets and posted on the blog.
I have served or am currently serving on several local boards and committees. My civic responsibility is well-known by my friends as well as by those with whom I have disagreed on some local issues.
Where should my civic leadership experience be listed? Apparently it will not be in the N&R.
I have listed some of my volunteer activities and my leadership activities on this blog and in the news release that was sent to local media outlets and posted on the blog.
I have served or am currently serving on several local boards and committees. My civic responsibility is well-known by my friends as well as by those with whom I have disagreed on some local issues.
Where should my civic leadership experience be listed? Apparently it will not be in the N&R.
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