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High School HonorsApril 09,2013Mount St. Joseph Academy
The following students were named to the honor roll for the second trimester at Mount St. Joseph Academy:
High Honors
Grade 12: Leonard Bartenstein, Jessica Bruso, Madison Cornell, Jacob DeCandio, Hannah Farrow, Abigail Harvey, Ahrim Kim, Shea McGee, Abigail Miglorie, Kaitlyn Protivansky, Matthew Sanborn, Zhuman Zhang.
Grade 11: Garth Babb, Gwenyth Breslen, Collin Gilbert, Joshua Pellerin-Fales, David Perry, Maggie Sanborn, Claire Schmelzenbach, Emmalee Smith, Sebastian Smith.
Grade 10: Kyle Anagnos, Peter Bauman, Eric DeBlasio, Megan Eaton, Devon Gilbert, Sarah Harvey, Andrew Lindell, Joseph Loveland, Claire Mercier, Bethany Miglorie, Nathaniel OShea, Joshua Wasilewski.
Grade 9: Nicole Bruso, Lucas Heald, Bethany Manfredi, Heather McManus, Shane Protivansky, Monica Schmelzenbach, Gaetanino Tedesco, Javier Ursula.
Grade 12: Megan Blais, Jahnathan Mitchell, Alexandra Reedy.
Grade 11: Nicholas Croff, Grace Giancola, Emma Shouldice, Zhiyu Tian.
Grade 10: Kyle Diezel, Lincoln Pritchard, Kyra Traska.
Grade 9: Jonah Farrow, Benjamin Reardon.
Poultney High School
POULTNEY The following students achieved honors for Term 3 of the school year at Poultney High School:
Principals List
Grade 12: Hannah Grenier, Ashley Simons, Irene Simons.
Grade 11: Alexis Hill, Cameron Pratt.
Grade 10: Eleanor Dailey, Elizabeth Marcy.
Grade 9: Connor Hill.
High Honors
Grade 12: Lucy DeMatties, Seth Mason, Daniel Warnecke.
Grade 11: Evan Jackson, Chelsea Senecal, Sean Shepardson, Gregory Taran.
Grade 10: Emma Baker, Sarah Coker, Ryan Davis, Shannon Gadway.
Grade 9: Tyler Ballard, Calvin Brooks, Joseph Brown, Grace Lyle, Nathan Mackey.
Grade 8: Caylin Gloss.
Grade 7: Allison Arnado.
Grade 12: Brian Birkheimer, Sadie Brown, Timothy Carvey, Jayme Mars, Marissa Thomas.
Grade 11: Michael Bacher, Kirsten Fletcher, Dominic LaVoice, Megan McMahon, Nicholas Scott.
Grade 10: Zachary Constantine, Nathan Davis, Sydnee Petty, Derrick Southwick-Drew, Martin VanBuren.
Grade 9: Marissa Constantine, Brockton Corbett, Amanda Dunlap, Jordan Grenier, Kayla McMurry, Lucas Turunen.
Grade 8: Lindsey Hewes, Cory Mears, Eva Nichols.
Grade 7: Thomasine Beayon, Olivia Reynolds.
Christ the King School
The following students were named to the honor roll for the third quarter at Christ the King School:
High Honors
Grade 8: Elizabeth Anderson, Adam Babb, Jenna Eaton, Gabby Giancola, Isabelle Harvey, Samantha ONeill, Lily Schillinger, Theresa Tedesco, Olivia Tiraboschi, Mackenzie Traska, Joe Whitaker.
Grade 7: Mollie Giancola, Julio Mendez, Sophia Moore-Smith, Turner Ramsay, Andrew Robertello.
Grade 8: Patrick Heaton, Bryn McClellan.
Grade 7: Jillian Childs, Jordan Perry, Jacob Whitaker.
Barstow Memorial School
CHITTENDEN The following students achieved honors for the second trimester at Barstow Memorial School:
Principals List
Nolan Abeyta, Remy Bragg, Logan Broyles, Rebecca Clark, Sakshi Dholakia, Shannon Duffy, Tierney Dugan, Tristan Gibbard, Isabelle Gulick, Benjamin Hamilton, Eli Henni, Riley Knowles, Jack Ligon, Ryan McKay, Madison Miles, Emma Murphy, Jessica Orluck, Anna Pace, Victoria Quint, William Quintana, Trey Senecal, Cameron Slenker, Katja Steupert, Victoria Tracy, Emma Tschaikowsky, Joshua Williams, Zoe Zmurko.
Honor Roll
Alisha Arshad, Joshua Bishop, Hope Bradley, Barbara Carey, Luc Carmel, Kjersti Conway, Maia Conway, Madison Coombs, Brendan Crossman, Noah Crossman, Luca DiTursi, Grayson Eckhardt, Caleb Elliott, Jillian Flanders, Kelsey Heald, Emily Hill, Crawford Jones, Logan Kenyon, Eliza Ligon, Austen McAllister, Ryan Murphy, Cassidy Nolan, Mollie Porcaro, Abigail Racine, Emily Rappeno, Christian Rhodes, Nora Rhodes, Trinity Robichaud, Abigail Slenker, Wesley Smith, Scott Soto, Jack Stahura, Thomas Tracy, Shannon Watelet, Phillip Wessing, Kiara Wilkins, River Willman.
Castleton Village School
CASTLETON The following students achieved honors for the fourth marking period at Castleton Village School:
High Honors
Grade 8: Nicole Blackwood, Benjamin Howard, Reilly Howard, Shiloh Peryer, Eric Ray.
Grade 7: Josephine Barber, Jessica Brewster, Halle Coloutti, Estelle Kearns, Madeline Morse, Gavin Schillinger.
Grade 8: Emma Boggio, Noah Bonvouloir, Betsy Coburn, John Culpo, Dylan Czachor, Jonna-Lynn Grenier, JoHanna Morse, Sophia Rampone, Ethan Ringquist, Regina Ruiz.
Grade 7: Nathan Bathalon, Alex Blackwood, Hannah Bonvouloir, Adam Coleman, Jarred Hayes, Nicholas Jones, Ryan Mahoney, Joseph Ouimet, Cassandra Pelkey, Megan Randall, Katelynn Snow, Olivia Starer, Oshen Stone, Noah Tyson.
Rutland Area Christian School
The following students achieved honors for the third quarter at Rutland Area Christian School:
High Honors
Grade 10: Kisa Nop.
Grade 8: Katie Nop.
Grade 11: Ellie Nop.
Grade 10: Lauralee Nop.
Grade 9: Jenna Hildebrand, Casey Powers.
Grade 8: Nathaniel Kingsley, Julia May.
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deldaisy wrote:LilMaibe wrote:That's what fanfiction is for (Granted, not the bad one that makes Rinso eveil and have him kill everyone)
Oh that one I would read Lil Would be nice to see the spineless little wizard grow some ba.... backbone!
I have no idea and don't even remember such a thread. Are you sure you didn't dream it?deldaisy wrote:
Edit: Hey Tony... Where's that thread we had going about DW Reality TV Shows.... that was hilarious.
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Oh who the heck knows.... show me ONE damn thread in here that stays on course! Most probably was a catastrophic derailment of "Ten Things I Knitted Last Winter" or something.
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SLU Celebrates 2011 Graduates
On Saturday, more than 5,500 family and friends packed into Chaifetz Arena to celebrate Saint Louis University's 2011 commencement. (WATCH THE VIDEO)
University President Lawrence Biondi, S.J., offered a salutation and invocation to start the ceremony. He told the graduates that he was confident they would make a difference in the world.
"What you have already done in your four, five or so years at SLU is indeed amazing," Biondi said. "But it is nothing compared to what you will do. Part of the joy we feel today lies in the promise you represent for us."
He added that SLU's newest alumni were always welcome back on campus.
"Wherever your life takes you, you always have a home at SLU," Biondi said. "We will always be here for you, and you will always be Billikens."
Before they were sent on their way, the graduates heard from Dr. Anthony Tersigni, the president and CEO of Ascension Health Inc., the nation's largest Catholic health care system.
"I'm excited by the energy and enthusiasm I see in your faces this morning," Tersigni said. "It gives me a great deal of confidence to know that the future of our country and the world is in your hands."
During the ceremony Biondi conferred honorary degrees upon Tersigni as well as St. Louis artist Brother Mel Meyer, S.M., and local philanthropists Marvin and Harlene Wool.
Mark Shook, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Temple Israel, delivered a blessing to close the ceremony.
"As all of us go forth from this time and place in our lives, may we be ever mindful of the constant presence of God, ever grateful for the love and sacrifice of family and friends, ever faithful to the image of God that lives within all of us," Shook said. "God is in this place, and we do know it."
A number of activities preceded Saturday's commencement, including pre-commencement ceremonies for the individual colleges and schools. The annual Baccalaureate Mass on Friday drew an overflow crowd to St. Francis Xavier College Church.


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Stories from people who were children during World War II and the objects in this exhibit animate the past and inform us of a time when war took over daily life. "Retrospect is a very interesting thing," says Ruthie Kallnder. "At the time I don't recall any of the information we got as being propaganda," but the government tried to influence children to make "necessary" sacrifices. Propagandists made the war a battle between good and evil, democracy and fascism. They also asked children to share in the war effort. In response, many children took on more responsibilities. Ruthie explains that boys and girls felt "if that's what it was going to take" to win they "were willing to do it." The memories of the people in this exhibit and their wartime actions show the power of propaganda's messages and its lasting affect on their lives. Propaganda posters, children's books, and classroom assignments demonstrate how propagandists reached children and involved them in the national war effort.
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NXT Program and Memory Efficiency
The Lego Education Blog recently released a PDF file with lots of useful information on how to program more efficiently to save memory (take it from an FLL comptetitor, memory can become a problem). View it here.
On the sixth page, there's a section about mini blocks - special versions of move, motor, sound, and display blocks - that will be released from the FLL Website during Fall. These mini blocks will cut down on memory usage while retaining some of the functionality of regular blocks. From the statements about it, I think they'll be really useful in comptetitions for maximizing memory capacity.
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I'm sorry, but Brian already posted this pdf on Monday, October 09, 2006 ;)
- Oct 21, 2006, 6:19:00 PM
- Andy said...
I know that but I could not get the link to the PDF working, it just came up a error message with me (on the Lego Education site also).
Thanks Jonathan for posting a working link!
And good luck with constributing on this blog!!
- Oct 21, 2006, 7:40:00 PM
- Jonathan said...
Oh woops, didn't see that.
Thanks andy, that's good the link works. :)
- Oct 22, 2006, 4:25:00 AM
- Guy Ziv said...
As for the miniblocks - I wonder what will be the limitaions in FLL on using NXT-G extensions in general. These mini blocks will require the NXT-G patch soon-to-be-released. However, the same patch would allow many more custom NXT-G blocks, written in LabView, which can give an advantage to groups using them. However, LabView is expensive and not every FLL group can afford buying, learning and making custum blocks (it requires an adult progammers skills too..). I've tried but didn't get an answer from FLL on their regulations in this matter. I thought the logical thing is banning any non-standard NXT-G blocks, but now I see FLL themselves are releasing small memory versions of some basic blocks.
- Oct 22, 2006, 4:59:00 AM
Where are the mini-blocks that were promised by FLL? Have they been released yet? It is fall now, after all. I've looked around on the FLL site but cannot find any mention of them.
- Oct 24, 2006, 12:26:00 PM
Responding to Guy Ziv, the mini-blocks really should be acceptable to FLL since they specifically advised teams to use them when available in this document.
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- Nov 21, 2006, 5:46:00 AM


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Stopping by to say Hi and wish you a great weekend, take care my friend!
Hasn't been that bad here either compared to last winter but.... I am very tired of the cold as I'm sure you are too. I just want warm temperatures and sunshine. Have a great rest of Friday and a fantastic weekend. Stay safe in the "big house"
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Technical Question
Question: inside the motorcycle is a gyroscope that keeps the motorcycle upright at high speeds. But even at low speed, the thing balanced pretty well. Now, the motorcycle was a little wider than a real motorcycle (if scaled up), but the thing really did run like a motorcycle without training wheels or other support.
Any thoughts on how fast you'd have to get a NXT bot's speed up to keep it up OR how difficult would it be for LEGO or HiTechnic to create a gyroscope? I should add that this has been a discussion on "another board" but not available to the general public. I'm interested in thoughts on the reality/cost/usefulness of this item.
5 comments:
- Brian Davis said...
I'd be curious exactly how the model worked. You can use a gyroscope with a large angular momentum to reduce the rate you "fall over" at... and if you can manipulate the axis of this gyroscope, you can actively balance (on a real bike, the wheels themselves help perfomr this function). But it still needs some "intelligence" to correct.
As to how big it has to be, well... it's the angular momentum that counts; you can get a large angular momentum be using a massive wheel, a big (large diameter) wheel, or spinning it very fast. So you are not neccessarily limited to large gyroscopes (although, again, you might have them in the wheels).
As to gyros, well... it's easy (well, it's easy for other people, not this author) to make a gyroscopic *sensor*, to determine how fast the angular rate is changing. This could be very useful for a number of things, and I believe it probably is being worked on.
Brian Davis
- Dec 16, 2006, 12:33:00 AM
- Christopher R. Smith (Littlehorn) said...
I found a couple of interesting patented methods...I'm still looking for a picture of the insides.
The long one...Here
...and the short one:
Gyro stabilized remote controlled toy motorcycle having good stability and controllability without using ground contacting auxiliary wheels or the like. The motorcycle comprises a chassis supporting a fixed angle rear wheel drive and associated motor and a castered front wheel. A gyro wheel having an axis nominally parallel to the axis of the rear wheel is mounted in a gimbal with a vertical axis in the forward part of the chassis and connected to the front wheel fork and post to turn the front wheel responsive to the rotation of the gimbal relative to the chassis. The chassis further includes a radio receiver, battery power and a steering device, such as a motor and slip clutch for torquing the gyro wheel gimbal. To turn in a first direction the gyro gimbal is torqued in the opposite direction, initially causing the front wheel to also turn in the opposite direction. As the motorcycle and the gyro lean into the turn, a correcting torque is generated by the gyro and caster of the front wheel, overcoming the initial steering torque to maintain the proper steering angle and balance for the motorcycle.
- Dec 16, 2006, 3:16:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
I'm continually amazed at what one can find on the Internet!
Thanks for posting, Chris.
- Dec 16, 2006, 3:20:00 AM
I found this Gyration gyroscope sensor a few weeks ago: http://www.gyration.com/en-US/GyroTech.html
- Dec 18, 2006, 9:20:00 AM
- Christopher R. Smith (Littlehorn) said...
Thats a Very Cool Sensor! I really can't tell how sensitive it is but... Please, someone stick this into a LEGO sensor shell and sell it to me? I'm sure I could stuff it into my NXT MonoWheel and give it a spin.
- Dec 19, 2006, 1:54:00 AM


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Okaloosa County Commissioner Nathan Boyles is calling for Fort Walton Beach, Valparaiso and Health Department officials to explain why it took almost two days to notify the public about two sewage spills Saturday.
Boyles sent letters to Fort Walton Beach Mayor Mike Anderson, Valparaiso Mayor Bruce Arnold and county Health Department Director Dr. Karen Chapman to ask them to attend the Commission meeting at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in Fort Walton Beach.
Read letters the county sent to area mayors. >>
"When something happens that's a public health threat, it's important we get that information out to the public quickly," Boyles said Wednesday. "I want to know what went wrong and I want a way collectively to fix it so it doesn't happen again."
The first spill Saturday sent an estimated 500,000 gallons of raw sewage onto Fort Walton Beach streets and into two homes and Santa Rosa Sound near Liza Jackson Park.
The second spill dumped about 58,000 gallons of sewage into Tom's Bayou in Valparaiso.
Signs warning the public about possible contamination were not posted until Monday morning.
"I was disturbed that mine was the first press release to go out," Chapman said. "When I learned that, I was not happy."
But Fort Walton Beach and Valparaiso officials said they followed proper protocol in relying on a state notification system that automatically sends emails to the Health Department and the state Department of Environmental Protection in the event of a spill.
"All of the appropriate contacts were made the day of the event, which was Saturday," Fort Walton Beach City Manager Michael Beedie said. "This includes the State Warning Point contacting FDEP and the Health Department."
Beedie said the city also tried to contact the Health Department but couldn't reach anyone because it was the weekend.
Valparaiso City Commissioner Heyward Strong, who oversees water and sewer operations, said the city fulfilled its obligation to notify the state about the spill.
"We followed the law. We did exactly what we were supposed to do," Strong said. "We are not authorized to issue any health warnings. … That's not our responsibility."
But Chapman argued that it's only common sense for city officials to take the initiative and notify residents as well as county emergency management after a sewage spill.
"Any spill, regardless of its size, that impacts a waterway … should be reported to emergency management ASAP," she said. "It just didn't work by notifying the (state first).
Boyles agreed.
"It appears the utilities simply notified the state and then called it a day," he said.
Boyles said he wants to discuss whether the county should adopt a law or enact a policy that requires cities to notify emergency management officials immediately after a sewage spill.
Chapman also supports the idea of cities notifying local authorities immediately.
Beedie cautioned that such a change could confuse the notification process, which currently allows the city to make one phone call and then "focus on fixing the problem as quickly as possible."
"There is not an issue with the protocol," he said. "All utilities are aware of the State Warning Point, as are the Health Department and FDEP."
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Beedie said he plans to attend Tuesday's commission meeting. Strong said a representative of Valparaiso also will attend.
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Since 1978, CEO compensation has risen 90 times faster than the average worker's, the liberal Economic Policy Institute shows in the above graph. That's not CEO pay vs. worker pay; that's just rates of growth.
The average CEO made $1.5 million, after adjusting for inflation, in 1978, EPI says. He or she now makes $16.3 million. The salary of the average worker, however, has risen from $48,000 to just $53,200. CEOs at top firms now make over 300 times more than the average worker. Nico Lauricella
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- Alisa Miller
- Minneapolis, MN
- United States
President & CEO, Public Radio International (PRI)
This conversation is closed.
What do you want from the news?
What do you want from the news each day? Do you get it? How does the news impact you each day? How does it make you feel?
Is the news positively impacting your life? Why or why not?
Answers that explain in personal narrative how the news impacts you are greatly welcomed!
Apr 8 2011: I would like that more journalists would have a scientific background.
As such they wouldn't post so much interpretations of interpretations of interpretations, but base themselves more on facts and documented sources.
Quality over quantity would be nice
Understanding that bringing only exceptional cases colors perception, so bringing the large numbers of everyday positivity and productivity would be a good idea!
News that reflects the world's situation... how about that?
Concerning positively impacting:
Not really, or not that I would causate to news...
If you are on raft on a river, and news are pebbles and rocks thrown in from the side, impacting the flow of the river...
How much would that influence the path of my raft? Could I trace that effect? Is it positive?
I remember that I realized at age ten that the end of the Berlin wall was a good thing and a historic event.... other than that... not much narative Alisa...
Apr 10 2011: Yes! More scientists in the news! Those who prefer Arthur C. Clarke can be the reporters, and those who prefer Carl Sagan can write the editorials.Apr 11 2011: @ Christophe Cop
Cannot agree more with you. Here is one interesting story. Bad interpretation with some serious result.
clay blasdel
Apr 13 2011: I want unbiased news, not propaganda. What amazes me is how far Americans will go to avoid talking about the hijacking of news in our country. The most popular cable news organization is spinning propaganda 24/7 much like the old soviet Pravda, and Americans are too politically correct to talk about it. We continue to whistle past the graveyard, as if it isn't happening. In a generation we have gone from the gold standard of news with Walter Cronkite, Eric Severeid, Charles Collingswood, Richard C. Hottelet, Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, Harry Reasoner, Peter Jennings, et.la. to Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, et.al.
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What do I want from the news? Are you kidding? I want the truth, not the lies perpetrated by some aging Australian megalomaniac.
The good news is that the 3 American broadcast channels have the lions share of viewers, while the cable channels have relatively few viewers. But still, the lies being foisted as "news" damages the country, just as Pravda kept Soviet citizens in the dark. No one can be arrested in America for speaking-out yet Americans are still reticent to speak. I'm afraid we lack the courage of the past "greatest generation".
May 8 2011: well said clay
clay blasdel
Apr 11 2011: I want correspondents with the courage to say "That is not true. Our research shows that what he/she is saying is false."
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I want the courage of Edward R. Murrow;
The doggedness of 60 Minutes;
The dramatic themes and story telling ability of FRONTLINE;
The passion of Keith Olberman;
I want an end to teases, and absolutely no fluff.
Tim Stone
Apr 11 2011: the reason this doesn't happen is because news reporters/agencies or networks are political entities in their own right. They have something to lose by falling out of favour with the very people they are supposedly helping the public keep a check on.
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Apr 12 2011: Another reason it doesn't happen is that the public wants entertainment, not news. And they want to feel good about themselves and part of the team. Hence the American flag in the background of every Fox news ad (just went to www.foxnews.com, check out the red/white/blue color scheme).
Sandra Gojic
Apr 9 2011: I actually want to hear and see some good, positive, funny news. It's all about wars, lack of money, nature disasters, and it's just enough. Wouldn't it be nice to wake up in a world where the headlines are about some great thing our humanity discovered, performed, did..?
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Apr 9 2011: Exactly my point. As if there isn't enough negativity in the world and under-appreciation of all the positivity out there, now we have news stations to just crash it all into our lives no matter where we turn. This is complete psychological abuse and all the news networks know this very well. But who cares when it makes you so much money...Apr 10 2011: I agree with you.
but news is good even bad, negative, and distracting ones provided that they are accompanied with useful tips and solutions. otherwise just knowing what happened does not make any difference except making people upset. the point is that what should be done and not what is happening . If you tell people there is fire in the building they just get anxious, upset and do not know what to do. you have to show the exit door and safe ways of overcoming the problems as well.
otherwise, in a long run, it would make people ignorant and they would not even empathize any more.
Apr 10 2011: Agreed. At the moment, all you see is the problems and that's exactly what the government wants. That you be in a constant state of fear.
Apr 11 2011: It is my tendency to think like this, however, of course the argument is that the good news is usually less dramatic than the bad and thus produces lower ratings. As long as news is a commercial product and television and newspapers are still holding the amount of gravitas as they do today, news will always fall to the draw of the lowest common denominator.
Of course, in line with the more cynical belief that the news is used as some kind of population engineering tool, it does fall down to a chicken and egg scenario, although I would say, human beings simply have an evolutionary tendency to give information about what jepordises their safety a priority over uplifting aspirational news and developments.Apr 11 2011: couldn't agree more.Apr 8 2011: Provide differentiated news stories through your website. People that have passed basic qualifying tests can be filtered to news presented at a level appropriate to them. If I understand economics at level A versus level B, the topics and content of the news stories should vary accordingly.
You should also provide links to free educational sites (your own or others') that will improve those test scores, making each of us who participate a more informed audience. Once someone understands - at a basic level - distinctions between, say, conservatives and neo-conservatives, or between parliamentary government and democracy, their grasp of certain stories and aspects of stories will be changed in significant ways.
Having more than two or three levels would provide diminishing marginal utility in this regard, but a simple model of such a differentiated presentation helps reduce the dangerous hazards of the news being too dumbed-down or too erudite for different audience segments.Apr 20 2011: I want the unbiased truth.
Media pros are taught to give priority to the voices of authority over any other wittness. I have seen firsthand how they even fail to tell the truth when they themselves have not only seen it but filmed it; instead they let the police commissioners lies tell the story. The people are not heard, even in democratic nations like Australia.
Media often make a point of giving both sides to story, but they dont tell us when the number of "experts" of a given opinion are rediculously outnumbered by experts against it. Thus, the arguement is weighted in favour of what is probably wrong.
The choice of which stories to air/print/etc. and how much prominence is and always has been weighted in favour of people like "us". A story about 1 white westerner, is given prominence over 1000 or more black foriegners.
If we look at the news and take it as reality we would assume that young people attack old people frequently and rarely does any youngster get hurt by any but another youngster. This is so far from reality and it serves no-one but the media (it sells), for example, 1 in 4 girls are sexually abused in Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics) usually by an adult family member.
The media have a lot to answer for. I would like to see more journos and editors with a concience.
Lance Miller
Apr 19 2011: No news is good news, that's what my mother always said. I don't think she realized how prophetic that actually was.
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Mainstream media is not reporting from their higher selves, therefore propaganda is widespread.
Alternative news options are more informative, but again, will the news change your life?
That answer should be yes and for the better. Sensationalism sells, but during prime time hours, is it necessary to report about a mother driving her kids into a lake while the children are within an ear shot?
I feel if the news can open your eyes to something you can constructively contribute to, it's worthwhile. If it informs you of imminent dangers or educates you with profound discoveries, it's worthwhile.
Public broadcasting is certainly something I have more confidence in.
Apr 20 2011: Mate, I second what you say, pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by alternative news options?Apr 11 2011: Hitting all the bases on the basics would be nice: who, what, where, when and why...
When a circuit court judge decides that it's fine for the police to sneak onto private property without a warrant of any kind in order to install tracking equipment on a vehicle, name the judge for petesake!
Wait 'till it happens to report it. I've been finding AP stories recently about upcoming events which may happen. Unless they're selling tickets, wait 'till it happens and tell me how it turned out.
I miss hard hitting investigative journalism. There isn't much of that any more. Where's the muckrakers? We could use 'em.
Accuracy! Check the facts. When you say that the weapons used by the Mexican drug cartels are coming from the US, cite the authority for the info- that's Mexico's claim, diverting attention from their own failings. The hand grenades, explosives and full-auto weapons are certainly not from here; most of the small arms they are getting originate in Asia, not the US.
If you cite an external source, 'according to such and such a study...', be specific about the name of the paper, author and where i might find a copy of the specific report that i can make sure you aren't bending the truth a little.
Pictures are always good, they're a must for stories of a visual nature. They're easy to do these days. Show me Bradley Manning in his prison cell.
Al Jazeera is the best place for video for what's going on in the Arab world these days. While it's still slim, they've also had some of the best coverage of what's going on in Afghanistan. This one video, the reporter asks a US commanding officer who had cut a deal with some tribal leaders in one village, "Did you know that this had upset this other tribe in such and such a village?..." Eeh, no. What did yo say their names were?" What a hoot! The reporters are more on it than those involved in what they're reporting on...
I go to the BBC to find out what's happening here in the US.
DATE blog posts!
Don't lie to me.Apr 11 2011: Dear Ms. Miller,
There was a time that I used to get very depressive reading the news.
Newspapers were full of negative news: crimes, wars, famine, corruption and many sorts of sordid things.
Nowadays I have decided to filter all these negative news and look for what really interest me.
So I have decided to quit the mainstream media and read the alternative media instead. And that's how I came across with the www.ted.com website.
I want to know what is going on the MIT research facilities for instance.
I have just watched the video about the Mesh ( the new business trend).
So far I am getting the news I am interested in, but I had to search far from the mainstream magazines, newspapers , tv channels.
I think it is interesting to say what I don't want to watch anymore: I am not interested in celebrities' life( who they marry, what is their latest plastic surgical) , nor I am interested to watch a reality show (Big Brother style and the like). Fashion is another thing that I want to get rid of.
Biography is something that could vanish and I would not miss it. Nobel prizes are becoming quite weird. How come a peace Nobel prize is attributed to a war promoting political figure?
Porn content is also something that does not interest me.
I want news that can help me on my daily routine (at home and at work), something that does not make me feel ashamed in front of my kids (that respects the family tradition and values). Also I want news that answer the basic questions like who, when,where and How. Some journalists forget to make a complete account of the history.
The few alternative media source that I have been reading is positively impacting my life. The only difficulty is to whether I can trust them and how accurate they are.
I hope I have managed to answer all your questions.
Yours Sincerely,
Thomas Werner
Matt Dale
Apr 10 2011: I want to know what I need to know to become a better, more effective member of the community. I want to be informed and empowered to go out and do good.
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gale kooser
Apr 10 2011: The local news I receive is not really local for me, my small town is 50 miles away from where the broadcast is stationed, so the only thing I get out of that is weather & sports. The national news (via GMA) is really how I start my day. It includes the hard news & humor (which is important). If there are any subjects that interest me, then I dig in & surf the net for in depth coverage (to usually see if I can locate the facts). My evening news is delivered by Diane Sawyer, who does get her feet wet & reports on events in a heart felt manner.
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All of the above lets you know that I like my reporters to have a heart about what they are reporting on, along with: Honesty, accuracy, & integrity.
Too much reporting on celebrities, especially when they make news in a bad way, is not needed.
"Many" years ago, the Miami Herald newspaper had a total addition devoted to good news only-it sold out in 4 hrs. Makes ya think doesn't it! So why not a segment on radio or tv that is devoted to good news only?Apr 10 2011: I think it would be nice if the news had more TED.
Not literally TED, but TED in spirit. There should be a focus on innovation, camaraderie, and potential all wrapped nicely with the intent to educate as well as inform.
Debra Smith
Apr 9 2011: Hi Alisa! I loved your talk. I want more extensive and wider ranging coverage from the news. I would like to know what influences the lives of people in other parts of the world and how that might be interconnected with my life. I would like less repetition and more insight in the formof discussion about the ramifications or implications inherent in the news item.
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Kavik MB
Apr 9 2011: a mayoría de la gente sólo recibe información de las noticias de los Mass media ,y los Mass media no son ni más ni menos que grandes multinacionales.Las multinacionales NO se crean para ofrecer un servicio a la comunidad ,se crean para ganar dinero y tener beneficios . ¿De dónde provienen estos beneficios? De la publicidad ¿Quién paga la publicidad?Los anunciantes...
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Si un Mass media emite una noticia con información (realmente) comprometedora de uno de sus anuncionantes , se arriesga ni más ni menos a perder su forma de ganar dinero , es decir , la publicidad ,con lo que he llegado a la conclusión que los mass media son básicamente los altavoces de las grandes corporaciones,entre ellos pactan qué ,cómo ,cúando y qué decir para sus propios interereses y NO para contar la verdad que se supone que es el propósito del periodismo y de las noticias .
The most of people just get news from the Mass media .The Mass media are neither more nor less that big companies or international corporation .The purpose of these Companies is not to offer a public service to the citizens .The purpose of these companies is to have more and more profits and earn money .Where do these profits come from?They come from advertisements that are paid by partners,sponsor or other companies
If a mass media reported news about a partner with harmful information to them , they could lose their way to earn money
Finally I don´t believe in the news from Mass media because I think both of them come down to how, what ,when telling it to have mutual profits instead telling the truth (in theory ,the real purpose of the news...)
Sargis B.
Apr 8 2011: Much more positivity, less politics, more of the people, advances in society/technology/science, etc. Most importantly, enough of the same stuff over and over again like the wars, terrorists, and what not. Firstly because most of it is just propaganda, and secondly because it is very psychologically dangerous and abusive to keep feeding it to society. It affects us all very badly. When's the last time you heard something very positive on CNN? lol
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What I like about the news is its great capabilities and it has lots of positive effects if put to good use. What I don't like is that it isn't being put to good use...
Sandra Gojic
Apr 9 2011: Yes, we live in the most exciting time ever. Let's share good things, what can we acomplish as a society, as humans. There are amazing things going on, lets make them headlines.
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Apr 9 2011: Absolutely. When you turn on the news nowadays, you get the impression that there is nothing good going on in the world. There's nothing worth living for anymore. I've seen how people get affected by this cycle. It ain't a pretty picture.May 8 2011: Having engaged in your TED discussion on who we trust in the news, and having seen your TED Talk on the news about the news..I am beginning to question what I even mean when I refer to "news". I know that I want a more balanced picture of important global events and I know that right now it's very hard work to piece that together. It takes a great deal of personal commitment and energy to really understand both sides of a global event where the views of other nation are important for us to understand..where failing to understand them has ramifications for our lives and our future.In one of many Ted Conversations this past week arising from the news of Bin Laden's death , a TED member in India shared the headlines of a major Calcutta daily for each of several days. That story was not told here or in any western news and we need to understand and think through what we really think as global citizens about the Pakistani take on all this.The same with Egypt's revolution.No one in what we consider main stream news is telling the unfolding Egyptian story and its posisble implications for te US, for peace in the middle east, for the termination of the Camp David Accord long hoped for by the Egyptian majority..Few in the U.S., evenamong the educated and informed here at TED Conversations, seem aware that to the majority of Egyptian anti Mubarak and anti-US sentiments are one in the same.We can't do without whatever the news used to be( was it ever really that?). A healthy, independent vibrant fourth estate is indispensable to freedom throughout the world. And to me in our modernal global wolrd that means the fourth estate has to provide balanced and acurate reporting on all event s of global significance.
May 9 2011: GREAT COMMENT! You really put your finger on it.
May 11 2011: So Meher how do we revive the fourth estate? How do we help get themessage out, as I believe Alisa has tried to do here at TED that the fourth estate is in terrible trouble. I truly blieve withou tthe fourth estate..without a free press reporting both side on global as well as important local news we can't have a vibrant healthy democracy. Do we need to become citizen journalists not in the haphazard opinoins are more fun than facts world of most blogs but writing as journalists..in the trdaution of journalism..? Are you personally willing to do that on your own life..not to cover everything of cures but to write responsinly about events you know in your heart we are not gettimng the whole story or the right story on? What about setting up a blog of "citizen" journalists..would you be one? Would you help organaize and run such a thing?..
Jul 1 2011: Lindsay, i suggest you take a look on the Taste Series Conversations on TED. I've been engaged on one about Iran and it was very interesting.
And we are really doomed by west's journalistic view (and it's sooo hard for us to go searching for enlightenment on different countries news.Apr 19 2011: Hi Alisa,I can not watch the news daily because it makes me feel hopeless. I prefer to watch international news or to inform myself on social network news sites. Today most of the news are focusing on the sensationalism in the press. They do not report the real facts without being bias anymore. For instance, you can see more news spending its time covering events related with "famous stars". Objectivity is not the professional norm anymore and, I do not care about their own perception of reality or their own political agendas. I will like to see more stories related with positive outcomes and more facts. Maybe how communities are supporting each other in difficult times, or new leaders in our communities. New companies that are emerging and, their stories. Of course you need to portrait reality but, with a more positive ambiance!Apr 17 2011: I stop watching T.V get the news from the web when needed
1- news should be pure news not mixed with opinion
2-News that matter to me not matter to government
Apr 17 2011: I have a degree in communication, and I agree with many others here that the biggest problem in American news is propaganda. I choose international sources first as they're more likely to give me a neutral frame. Unfortunately propaganda is primarily a product of the entertainment model of news where news is a lure to draw large audiences for advertising revenue. The entertainment model has ruined news and stupified it to pure irrelevance. Do we REALLY need to listen to more celebrity gossip? Imagine how large an audience would be if the news delivered... actual news?
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What's missing from news, and what pushes people into a wide variety of other sources, is context. It's a rare and valuable product absent from the marketplace. Talking heads giving analysis and partisan spin is not context, it's inertia. Giving objective and non-partisan context has all but disappeared. If there's a controversy over a topic, then quantify the controversy. If a crime occurs, put it into context of other criminal events in a particular area and relate it to a particular phenomenon (i.e.: gangs or drugs).
If I could mention one more thing, it would be to not be afraid to generate more news than what airs, and have news be contextually relevant (think of Amazon.com's model of offering related books). Ideally this would let people see a story as well as memes evolve over time. If contextual relevance can be measured (I'm sure it can), then the top threads of maximum relevance might offer the best guide on what to actually broadcast.
May 8 2011: Wonderful analysis and I love your idea of a contextual model for the news. Versions of this somehow exists in some places. When I was trying to understand fro myselfwhat was happening in Egypt or Libya a google search on "Egypt Today" or "Libya Today" would turn up a huge indexes of headline accounts from all over the world with the link and the story lead in..not sure how that worked or who did that compilation but it was very broad, included the major dailies all over the wolrld and alsomore in depth analysis and commentray by folk like Ralph Nader or Mort Zuckerman in very obscure little papers ( obscure to me anyway) like The Palestine Chronicle.: Still a lot of work but it made it possible to get a broader picture and a more complete picture of the story behind the headlines. I think you are right that that is the model.Apr 16 2011: I want greater transparency from the news. I want to know the judgements that went into deciding which stories made the news, and which did not. I want to know who is deciding who gets interviewed and who is not. I dont trust the news, because I dont know what is existing in the vacuum outside the publicly broadcasted 'mega' channels.
The day I can watch the news and come away knowing that I know what happened in the world, not just what someone wants me to know about what happened in the world, will be a great day.
Networks like CNN have this capacity right now. I can watch for a whole afternoon and see three stories repeated a dozen times. Cover the news in its entirety and let me judge what I deem to be important.
Apr 17 2011: Great point, can you elaborate more on what transparency might look like? What would be told to you, or shown on a news org website, for example.Apr 18 2011: Hi Tim,
I agree that the news needs to be more transparent. I good way to earn trust is to link back to primary sources. Ben Goldacre writes a good piece about just that on his blog, Bad Science.
I read your comment and thought you might like this article.
Apr 19 2011: Very interesting article, thanks for posting!Apr 15 2011: I want stories that go deeper than most stories in the news today. There are som many big hedlines with so little to back it up. I belive we have to move away from the common impression that you have to know a little bit about everything, and move towards depth. Or else I fear that the next generation will become a bunch of hyperactive "screamers"...
Nancy Capps
Apr 15 2011: As long as our news are dependant about revenue, they have to create a "product that sells" -- they have stockholders too, hence the "Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, et.al." I'm not sure that even Cronkite could tell the news as he did in today's "stockholders reign supreme" world. I'm open to hear alternatives on this business model that would ensure insightful, educational, unbiased news. And would we even know what to do with this? Don't you feel that today's consumer wants to hear what they want to hear, rather than what they should hear? Again, open to feedback.
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Apr 17 2011: Nancy, you have touched on a real hot button when it comes to whether we are just getting what we want, etc., we just WANT Brittany all the time. There are studies, some by Pew research that suggest we actually DO want a more balanced diet of news.
May 8 2011: Alisa& Nancy.. I am beginning to wonder what the real texture is underneath that Pew research, that hi percentage reporting they want global and international news.. I love your observation, Nancy, that even Walter Cronkite ( the last person all of America truly trusted in the news) might be seriously challenged by the compleixty and obscurity of the workings which shape our lives and our futures now. I see quite a bit of laziness or perhaps its just a malaise of disenfranchisement caused by the realities of our plutonomy.. My sense is that people want every single detail about an international event, like Bin Laden's slaying last week, for two or three days they can't get enough of it and then attention just drifts on to the next big event. I wonder whether there really is an audience with a real appetite to understand and follow important world events day by day. It woud be interesting to take a closer look at those Pew respondents who say they want to know more about international news and see how they actually engage with international events.Apr 18 2011: Do you think that's because they don't care about the issues, or because the news about world events and politics is over their head? When was the last time you saw a story about the economy translated down to the reading level reflected in Us or People?
Now part of the failing is the education system, to be fair, but part of it is the social motivation to keep those with lower education levels out of political affairs except when someone needs to whip the mob into a quick frenzy to push through some legislation. This is compounded by the fact that politicians and many news outlets spin the news so badly the average person doesn't know what to believe. Pictures of Brittany with a shaved head are pretty clear. If there were millions of dollars in profits to be made for one group if the public believed she was bald AND by another group if the public beleved she still had her hair, then you'd see a parallel.
May 8 2011: an insightful analysis.,Erik
Debra Smith
Apr 13 2011: I'd also like to see the news begin to reference actual sources when they do scientific pieces. The BBC has recently begun to give the actual publication and reference and I think it is a valuable contribution so that we can go to the original to ensure that the report had no spin.
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Tim Stone
Apr 11 2011: What about a news source solely dedicated to musing over the reporting on major events of the day by other sources? Critiquing the shamelessly displayed bias and often sickening pathos by various newsrooms? To refer to James' example of the Japanese earthquake reporting - this site/station/whatever could have solely run reflective pieces on the absurdity of how this tragedy was being dressed up like a fictional film.
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Anyone from the UK who was lucky enough to watch any of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe on BBC will have an idea of what I mean (it's worth looking at excerpts on youtube if you haven't seen it - refreshing stuff!)
Tim Colgan
Apr 11 2011: What do you want from the news?
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I've basically given up on the main-line news outlets for reliable insights. They are pure propaganda mills. Even NPR has buckled in under government funding pressures, so it's no longer much better then the rest.
But I think better sources of information are emerging. The best approach, I've found, is to look at a variety of sources like:
. Real News
. Democracy Now
. Christian Science Monitor
. Al Jazeera
. Russia Today
. Jpost
. Znet
. Counterpunch
. Salon
. Harpers
. Atlantic
. Huff Post (mostly for editorials)
. Young Turks
. Fox (to see what the wacky right is up to)
And try to piece things together. It's most interesting when news sources or blogs have comment sections. You can get a lot of good information from them.
What I would really like is a news central site that I can tailor to my interests. With discussion pages for articles from any source. And the ability to network with other readers whose insights I respect.
If I had the time, I would consider putting together something myself.
Apr 11 2011: I think a lot of people do that type of thing, personal aggregation of news. I know that I do it with iGoogle. I wonder if there's any sort of online service that allows you to tailor your news feeds like iGoogle, or even better, your idea of putting together your own news aggregator with the ability to network and cite source articles and what not.
Apr 11 2011: yes, basically it would just be a mix of rss feeds but laid out like a news website. Maybe it could have algorithmically decided headlines/promoted stories? And tag cloud based story promotion (tags added and managed to this hypothetical meta-service) based on your selected interests.
This could be very good!
Apr 12 2011: Pretty much exactly what I was thinking! Choose areas of interest, or particular papers, with those stories trending more popping up more. Like, say war breaks out between Botswana and Colombia. With the right tagging program, you could have one link for the war itself. Once in it though, you can see the individual stories. If you have as one of your interests/tags say space exploration, and it doesn't have much going on that day, stick it near the bottom. But if a lot's happening with it, bump it up to the top. Get the layout and the tag/interest deal sorted out, and the thing ought to be pretty self regulating.
I'm just making things up as I go, feel free to interject with your ideas!Apr 12 2011: Yes Daniel. I've seen methods of making your own front page type presentations. But the discussion group aspect I think is very important also. Are you familiar with DISQUS? If it could be tied into any article you choose, that would be great.
Another element would be a mechanism where ANYONE could write an article. In order for the article to move up in visiblity it would have to be selected by the people you respect. Could be totally user driven media.
Apr 12 2011: What about linking sources to news articles? Reporters don't always cite their sources or say what study they looked at to research their report. I hadn't checked out DISQUS, but after seeing their format, I think something similar might be good for sourcing.
We could also use some stuff from TED, the way it has a link to start a conversation about a video (for this it would be about an article) as well as linking to related talks. So if someone writes a piece about this article and that article and another one, they'll all be linked in together. Hopefully (especially for the big stories) that would coalesce all these disparate stories about the same subject into one cohesive framework.
Do you think there should be a user content section, where people can post their articles directly to the service, or should they link into their blog? I'm a bit up in the air over which might work better. If they're all written on the site they will be all in one spot, but that might be difficult to manage and make effective. On the other hand, links are easy to make and pretty self-regulatory, but leaving the site to see user content might get annoying. What do you think the best way to submit user content might be?Apr 11 2011: I think it would be interesting to see news in the news. Just that. A collection of facts about things that have happened around the world and locally in that specific time frame. I think I could actually use that information. I have a hard time differentiating between Jerry Springer and CNN these days. With a set of facts provided, I could evaluate that information and determine it`s relevance and importance to me as opposed to being told how relevant and important it is. That would make it interesting. That would make me feel as though I was being proactive in researching and evaluating the world I live in. Current news feeds either dont allow for evaluation by depriving you of nescesary data, or make evaluation a daunting task. What should I beleive? Is this the whole story or just one side? What`s the other side? I understand that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that history is made by those who write it, but getting back to basic facts and statistics would greatly improve the content of "news" shows. The earthquake in Japan became disaster porn almost as soon as it happened. The facts had been put out immediately, and then the porn started. Lets show the film footage of a man running for his life from an incomming tsunami (which he fails to do and drowns) 18 times an hour. That is completely unnecessary unless you get your rocks off watching people die. Important facts about an earthquake: where, when, how big, projected/current after effects, casualties, how can I help. Thats all I want to know about. The touching stories about famlies reunited, or recounts of what happened from an emotional standpoint could (and in my opinion SHOULD) be advertised in a venue other than the news. Day 1, earthquake on the news. Day 45, in depth documentary on HBO. Seperate. I dont condone censorship and I`m not saying that current news shows should be restricted, I`m just stating what I want from it.
Apr 11 2011: Totally dig the idea!Apr 11 2011: so, you're suggesting news should be totally clinical; practically functioning as a fact database? There's definitely a place for that. I feel one of the main reasons that would be unviable for your standard evening news is that the stories wouldn't be long enough! Either the news would be a lot shorter (less ad revenue) or they'd have to cover more stories (higher outgoings on researchers).
Another cul de sac due to news being a commercial venture.
sulav duwal
Apr 10 2011: What i dislike about the today's news, is the way it is served. It is more sexed up and coated with added flavors and less content. One that I vividly remember was at the time when Hadron collider was in its way to get started. Where as the most of scientific world were eager and excited, one TV channel in India was creating fear around it. Scientist did wanted to know what happen at the time of big bang, and the channel connected it with black hole and bang and predicting (I do not know how or upon what foundation) that if the experiment goes wrong, the earth will be shallowed by black hole. That was some shallow journalism.Apr 10 2011: I occasionally scan radio and tv news networks to get a run-down of the headlines. Whether it's national or world news, there is alot going on out there. I expect these sources to give me a run-down on everything. I don't need them focusing on just one story.
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OK there is a nuclear disaster in Japan. The world is still turning, why isn't the page? Everyone has access to the web today, and it's an ideal platform for learning more about any given story. Give me the headlines, I can find the details on my own.
Oh, and partisan politics! If the US is ever going to evolve to more productive politics, the partisan politics needs to end. As long as the news keeps pushing such viewpoints, it will remain in the public eye. Let's talk about issues and bills, I don't need to hear someone's interpreted statistics about what Democrats or Republicans always do.Apr 10 2011: More awesome stories like yours—news about news does an incredible service in helping us be well-informed consumers. It's the equivalent of putting nutrition information on food!
Alisa Miller
Apr 10 2011: Erik, couldnt agree more, that we need more transparency in news. In fact, I am working on a news nutrition label, and thnking a lot about the use of real time tools, and creating a collective resource in this regard and pointing to the great work that is in development, out there.Apr 10 2011: I would prefer less "zooming in" from national news outlets.
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(e.g. single homicide) because that kind of news creates a distorted perception of reality.
But I actually turned my back to "news" in the traditional TV/magazine way.
I pick community-oriented news outlets & specific organisations.
I bundle them up and use Twitter to provide me the links to their news!
Ow and, after watching
it begs the question: Is it even worth it to watch global news?
Almost all the topics preferred by the speaker to become "Long Stories" are not shown on TV and such.
To back up my point on "distorted perception"
Harald Jezek
Apr 9 2011: Alisa, echoing what's already said below, I would expect unbiased and timely delivery of information. And I mean any kind of information and not only the stuff that sells good (which are mostly the bad news).
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Maybe, to have a really unbiased news outlet, it would have to be a non profit organization.
As to the question of impact: it depends. There might be news that have an impact and others that don't. As with any information, it depends what you do with it.Apr 8 2011: Possibly to stop broadcasting for a week. When I lived near DC it just became the 'Death Tally' there was no news just how many people had been shot that day. We all need a break, we know it's not the best of times and we cannot hide our head in the sand but sometimes we need a break.Apr 8 2011: My biggest concern is politicization of news. Two reporters can cover or write about the same event and end up presenting it in quite different lights. Even more insidious is the ability of the network/newspaper/whatever to colour news coverage politically by deciding what to report on and what to omit. I know your organization has been accused of that (although I don't listen to much radio so have no first hand experience), as have most public broadcasters such as the BBC and, in Canada, the CBC. I think the fact that so many outlets tended to be politically on the left is what led to the creation and popularity of far right channels like Fox News. But I find the only way I can really get a fair and balanced view of the world is to read at least two papers every day -- with opposite leanings -- and vary which TV channel I watch for news.
I am not talking here of editorials and opinion columnists -- we generally know where they stand. It is the subtlety of bias in the news that is the issue.May 11 2011: Well I believe, there is not just a necessity for transparency and facts, it is also about news organizations that need to shift their focus; because the problem lies as well in the concept news broadcasts and newspapers are still working after. When Suhel says, it is boring to hear the same news over and over again than this also comes from the new situation newsrooms are in nowadays. When televison news are about to air at the end of the day, everyone has already heard about Bin Laden's death. There is no monopoly of information or information-access anymore that newsrooms own. I believe it is a greater change that traditional media needs to undergo that just cutting back opinion. In times of customization, it might be more important that news are made based on the trending interest - gathering news topics from the crowd or the cloud. This would also mean: a new concept of agenda setting. Surely journalists should not stop caring about the not-hot-topics and still cover and investigate stories about the unheard. But in my opinion journalists and media companies also need to overcome the old concepts of what's news in general.May 8 2011: Get rid of the punditry and straw man debaters.
Do away with advertisements.
Put the experts who did the work and understand the research on the screen to tell us what its about.
Get rid of the actors reading scripts.
Create very distinct lines of separation between news and opinion, like not even on the same channel. I don't want to turn on what should be strictly news and be subjected to asinine commentary by some outrageous puppet sensationalizing everything just because I turned it on at the wrong time.
Give me FACTS
Give me Figures
Give me TED!
The "news" as done by popular media lost my attention a long time ago, and will never get it back. turn off the T.V. folks it tells nothing by lies. the "news" wants nothing but money and power, and has absolutely nothing to offer the world anymore. Good Information comes direct from the source, that is what the internet is for.May 7 2011: I want the news to report what's happening and what people like me are thinking and doing about it.Apr 23 2011: Yes, my version of the news would be commercial free and yes, there would be more money spent by news stations on research, but on both accounts I see this as an improvement.Apr 21 2011: Most leading news channels, including leading newspapers, are part of a giant propaganda machine. Unfortunately, most people cannot begin to imagine the extent of this manipulation and deceit. Our entire culture and entertainment industry is built around it. The greatest lies perpetuated and communicated by the media today is, imho, the crimes against humanity carried out by the "Western Empire" (U.S. and U.K.). These crimes are actually so extensive, pervasive, and atrocious that most people refuse to believe it even when blatantly confronted with the truth. This phenomenon brings to mind a certain popular passage:
"...in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because... in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes."
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, 1925.
For those interested in the propaganda perpetrated by modern news organizations feel free to explore the following documentaries:
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
The War You Don't See by John Pilger
Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism by Robert Greenwald
Orwell Rolls In His Grave by Robert Kane Pappas
The War on Democracy by John Pilger and Christopher MartinApr 21 2011: Awesome Comments everyone. Another theme that is coming through is transparency. A lnumber of you are speaking to the desire to understand the sources featured in the stories, wanting to find out more depth beyond the story itself, and understand sources and stories in context with OTHER sources and stories. Who is saying what, saying the same or different things.
Leo Bi
Apr 21 2011: Firstly, the truth....
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Secondly... transparency..... being able to trace their source of information.... or if the source is to remain confidential, that fact shared explicitly. An access to act is also critical. For instance, if a news paper has an article about going to war, it could also publish information on who to contact to get further information, or who to express your concerns too etc.
This is a great talk that outlines this idea and other flaws in media. Hopefully it will get your cortex flowing with ideas :)Apr 20 2011: I like news to know what is happening, and just for that.
The explanations and projections i like reading from specialists, not journalists.


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No wonder Paula Patton's character is going crazy trying to re-ignite the flame of her past lovers. From "neighbors know my name" Trey Songz to the ageless Boris Kodjoe, this film will have you wishing they casted you as the leading lady.


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SLU Station Immerses Students in Biology Education
by Marie Dilg
For Dr. Thomas Valone, professor of Biology, a typical day at the Reis Biological Station begins at 7 a.m. He cooks breakfast for the eight students who are taking his ornithology course. The students stumble out of their rustic cabins into the lodge, and before Valone can finish his first cup of coffee, they begin asking questions about his lecture the day before.
After breakfast, the group heads out for a three-hour field trip into forest or prairie, or along the edge of the Huzzah Creek to learn how to identify birds. They come back to the lodge for lunch, a lecture and lab work. After dinner (Valone's specialty is Moroccan couscous chicken with herbs) they go on another hike to look for nocturnal birds. Valone brings a recording of owl vocalizations, and students wait for their feathered friends to arrive. Class usually dismisses by 8 p.m., but questions often go past 10.
"This is immersion learning," said Valone, director of the station. "On campus you can show your students a PowerPoint presentation on birds or plants, but at the field station they can see, feel and touch what you're talking about. You can see their eyes light up."
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Students stay at the station, which is about 100 miles southwest of St. Louis in Steelville, Mo., anywhere from three weeks to the entire semester depending upon the course they are taking. During that time, students bunk together, eat family style and conduct research in the field and in the station's laboratory.
Over the summer, the biology department offers three concurrent, three-week field biology courses on topics including plant biology, cave biology and aquatic ecology. The station can handle up to 30 students, although more than twice that many apply.
In response to the demand and to better use the station year round, the biology department began offering a full-semester field biology course this past fall taught by Dr. Valone and Dr. Janet Barber. Students, such as Caroline Dong, a senior from Iowa, spend Monday through Thursday living at the station.
"You learn things a lot quicker when you can actually see what you're studying and when you can focus on them without interruption," Dong said. "Plus, you can ask questions anytime about anything. I got advice about applying for grad school from my professor while she was cutting vegetables for dinner."
If You Build It, They Will Come
Land for the station was donated to SLU in 1956 by Valentine Reis, father of the late Raymond Reis, S.J., a biology faculty member. The department used the station primarily for short field trips until 1981 when Dr. Nevin Aspinwall became director. He oversaw construction of the lodge that contains the kitchen, dining room and two bathrooms. A 1989 grant from the National Science Foundation allowed construction of the lab and an indoor classroom. In the years following, Aspinwall enlisted SLU students to help him build six cabins and a shower house. Dr. Robert Wood (A&S '86), now professor and chairman of the biology department, was one of those students.
"The field station changed my career path," said Wood, who has been teaching summer courses at Reis since 1994. "I was on the pre-med track at SLU when I went to Reis at the beginning of my sophomore year to take a course on vertebrate biology. That was it. I was hooked. I knew this was the field for me and I wanted to teach here. I tell students all the time I can't believe they pay me to do this."
Fewer than 50 such field stations exist in the United States, only a handful of which are in the Midwest. Since the mid 1980s when department faculty began teaching at Reis, more than 600 SLU students have taken classes there. About 15 years ago the department created a consortium of colleges and universities to allow other students in the region access to the station's natural resources.