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Skip to comments.Unfettered 'citizen journalism' too risky (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch)
Posted on 12/13/2007 1:21:17 PM PST by abb
You're beginning to get a lot more news ... from you.
It ranges from the CNN YouTube debates to political blogs to cellphone video of that sniper who opened fire at an Omaha Mall. These are all examples of so called "citizen journalism," the hot new extension of the news business where the audience becomes the reporter.
Supporters of "citizen journalism" argue it provides independent, accurate, reliable information that the traditional media don't provide. While it has its place, the reality is it really isn't journalism at all, and it opens up information flow to the strong probability of fraud and abuse. The news industry should find some way to monitor and regulate this new trend.
The premise of citizen journalism is that regular people can now collect information and pictures with video cameras and cellphones, and distribute words and images over the Internet. Advocates argue that the acts of collecting and distributing makes these people "journalists." This is like saying someone who carries a scalpel is a "citizen surgeon" or someone who can read a law book is a "citizen lawyer." Tools are merely that. Education, skill and standards are really what make people into trusted professionals. Information without journalistic standards is called gossip.
But unlike those other professions, journalism at least in the United States has never adopted uniform self-regulating standards. There are commonly accepted ethical principals two source confirmation of controversial information or the balanced reporting of both sides of a story, for example, but adhering to the principals is voluntary. There is no licensing, testing, mandatory education or boards of review. Most other professions do a poor job of self-regulation, but at least they have mechanisms to regulate themselves. Journalists do not.
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
"While it has its place, the reality is it really isn't journalism at all, and it opens up information flow to the strong probability of fraud and abuse."
Wow, talk about irony.
"While it has its place, the reality is it really isn't journalism at all, and it opens up information flow to the strong probability of fraud and abuse."
Wow, talk about irony.
This from an NBC guy, no less. The network that planted a bomb in a pickup truck and blew it up to show that the gas tanks were unsafe. LOL!!
And who was it that falsely accused Richard Jewell of murder in the Atlanta bombings, destroying his life and sending him to an early grave?
Yeah, Dan Rather sure found out about that, didn't he? Those darned citizen journalists just can't be trusted.
I guess "tell the truth" (which anyone can do without standards or training) is just too simple a concept for "journalists."
This is the funniest article I've read in a long time.
The irony is that the author apparently doesn't recognize that most Americans are convinced the MSM is already loaded with fraud and abuse. There's gotta be a reason "journalists" are among the very least respected professionals.
Hmm... I've been involved in 5 civil litigation procedures in two countries (all as plaintiff) and won them all - without a lawyer.
I guess I shouldn't be allowed to do that...(and no, I've never studied law... just read a few "law books")
From the folks who participated in the framing of Richard Jewell.
What a snob! (the "author," not you, abb)
1. "two source confirmation." Fine - establish that standard and stick to it. Otherwise STFU!
2. "There is no licensing, testing, mandatory education or boards of review." Then STFU!
3. "Most other professions do a poor job of self-regulation, but at least they have mechanisms to regulate themselves. Journalists do not."
Actually, it's a Laugh Riot.
"The news industry should find some way to monitor and regulate this new trend."
Then he says this,
"But unlike those other professions, journalism at least in the United States has never adopted uniform self-regulating standards"
So, an industry that has never effectively regulated itself should somehow reach out and regulate the activities of free citizens.
Utterly clueless
I think they mean "principles" here. Do they no longer teach correct English usage in J-School?
balanced reporting of both sides of a story
Die, Big Media, die.
>>Journalism schools such as mine ... should create mini-courses to certify citizen journalists in proper ethics and procedures<<
Ha. Seems the only MSM qualification presently necessary is the ability to swallow a load of left wing krap and then to glibly barf it up onto a keyboard.
Yeah, that worked really well in the MSM's coverage of the Israel/Hezbollah war.
"Certified Journalist"
The author is obviously a high-class maroon. Someone ought to remind him of all the incidents of "fabricated news" that have come from "journalists"--up to and including "Rathergate".
Somehow that voluntary standard disappears when there is a chance to damage a political opponent of the journalist.
Sorry, any press report should be taken with the same grain of salt as something told to you by someone at a bar. It is up to you to determine whether the source is a professional in the field, or the drunk who is always muttering about the satellite mind control beams that President Kerry is firing at him.
Journalism schools such as mine at the University of Georgia should create mini-courses to certify citizen journalists in proper ethics and procedures, much as volunteer teachers, paramedics and sheriff's auxiliaries are trained and certified.
Remember, Constitutional rights must be limited by the government certification. You have a free press, but only the party in power determines whether you are actually the "press" or just a crackpot with a laser printer who must be arrested for saying something unpopular.
If the main stream media actually did this, there would not be any need for the public to step in and do the job they are not doing.
The fact is, everyone now knows that the main stream media can not be trusted to be honest, fair, or unbias.
The American people have "fired" them the only way they know how. They have done this by no longer watching the evening news, or by buying newspapers.
Further, they now take stories and put them on internet sites such as FreeRepublic where they can be discussed and different voices can be heard.
My mind is not made up on everything, and I have been known to change my mind if the right argument is presented. For the main stream media, there is only one point of view, and if you do not share it then there is something wrong with you.
That is not the way to win arguments or to convince others your point of view is the correct one.
There will always be a need for an organization to "gather" news, only now it is no longer a one way street.
There is now an opportunity for someone to provide raw news, that is nothing but the facts without any editorial comments within the stories. Unfortunately for the management of main stream media they think they are already doing that and can not understand why no one wants their product anymore.
Unfettered "citizen journalism" messes up the unfettered "left wing partisan journalism".
The advent of cell phones, cell phones with cameras, and digital technology makes it possible for citizens to give on the scene accounts and rapidly upload unfiltered images, thus bypassing traditional news gathering organizations. This really steams them! And by the time they DO get around to getting it reported, it is stale and events have moved beyond the incident.
ROFL!! Yeah, like there isn't any fraud or abuse in professional journalism. (*coff* Dateline:NBC's pyrotechnics *coff* Dan Rather's memos *coff*).
I had to check it for satire.
This article is a joke.
How about this for fraud and abuse?
Wow, that's a loaded sentence.
Or this:
My thoughts, exactly.
Scrappleface, right? Hmmm.... Nope. It's indeed a caricature that paints itself.
Uh-huh. The guy would be horrified at the thought of the GM board being in charge of the regulation of the auto industry or Exxon writing environmental standards for the oil industry but journalists can be trusted to monitor and regulate their industry?
It'd be sweet for them, I'll grant that. The New Republic would never have been caught, Dan Rather would be celebrated as a hero "speaking truth to power" and Jason Blair would still be writing for the NY Times. For a picture of what that world would be like just recall what it used to look like - I.F. Stone and Walter Duranty.
Let's speak frankly here - journalism is, at the moment, one of the most corrupt, shameless, manipulative, arrogant, out of control, celebrity-choked travesties in any industry anywhere. I would no more trust its luminaries to guard my flow of information than I would trust Oprah to guard my Twinkie stash. Some things are too stupid to even consider.
Rathergate, Bilal Hussein, "Pally"wood, Lebanon, Beauchamp at TNR, Glass at TNR, fake Pulitzer at the Post, all the way back to "I have seen the future, and it works!", etc., etc.
Thanks, I haven't laughed so hard for long a time.
Nothing opens up the possibility of fraud and abuse so much as a monopoly on news by a herd of uneducated, group-think leftists.
Read: "Only WE are qualified to tell you what you should believe."
What a pompous self important elitist jerk. He and all of us would be better off if he would just STFU.
Well said.
Unless it comes from some corporate monolith, it isn't "journalism?"
and it opens up information flow to the strong probability of fraud and abuse.
Yeah, because those are unheard of in the news factories. I submit Peoples' Exhibit A through Z: Dan Rather, Steven Glass, Janet Cooke, ...
The news industry should find some way to monitor and regulate this new trend.
Just like it monitors and regulates the existing news biz? You media clowns would be howling in apoplectic rage if anyone suggested we muzzle YOU.
Once upon a time, journalism WAS an honorable profession, especially as practiced at highly reputable newspapers like the Atlanta Constitution and (believe it or not) the New York Times. Then there were the great reporters on the television networks, as exemplified by Edward R Murrow.
However, more recently, all too many journalists have become globalist shills, salacious tabloid guttersnipes, and apologists for feminazis, gaysbians, islamists, muticulturalists, illegal immigrants, and other darlings of the postmodern Left. Then there are the out-and-out LIARS, like Christianne Amanpour and Samantha Power. Power has taken things one step further, and now poses as a Harvard professor, rather than a mere journalist!!!! And the New York Times has become the New World Order Times—"all the news we fit to print."
"Citizen journalism" is a much needed corrective to the fallen state of contemporary "professional" journalism. The Edward R Murrows of the 2000s and 2010s will probably emerge from the ranks of bloggers and other "citizen journalists"!!
"How many divisions does this news industry have?"
Freaking "live and let die" liberals. Anything they don't like must be regulated out of existence. Fascist control freaks.
I think it's being monitored already, Junior.
Now go forth and regulate the trend.
Freakin' teenager is delusional.
The media is being flushed and they can't stand it. The public is tired of the leftist leaning liberal crap that the so called news is espousing. Note that they want to regulate the "citizen journalism". Gee, I guess the 2nd Amendment isn't the only "collective" right anymore eh? Freedom of speech only applies to the media...
The irony: journalists seem to be the least informed among us.
As the Internet continues its spectacular growth, it has been revealing some shocking truths never before known or long denied. One of them that many will not want to hear is that journalism is entertainment. News, like other forms of entertainment, is almost purely about giving us diversion from the worries of our day-to-day lives. ...
"CNN's last YouTube Republican debate included a question from a retired general who is on Hillary Clinton's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender steering committee." — Hey Sherlock, It was CNN who vetted the question, not a Citizen Journalist! Genius.
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March 29th in baseball history: Cy Young is born
Submitted by BTGrimes on Sat, 03/29/2014 - 10:00am
The pitcher who set the bar
GILMORE, OHIO | MARCH 29, 1867 - Denton Young was born on an Ohio farm on this date in 1867. Better known as Cy Young, he won more games, 511, than any other pitcher in baseball history. The pitcher in second place, Walter Johnson, had 94 fewer wins than Young.
Cy Young's nickname was coined by a catcher who, after warming him up, compared his fastball to a cyclone. He played for four teams during a 22 year career lasting from 1890 to 1911. Besides 511 career wins and 316 losses, below are other records of his that stand out:
• 15 seasons of at least 20 wins
And of course, today the best pitcher in each league is recognized with the "Cy Young" award.
The fifteen winningest pitchers of all time:
Cy Young - 511
Here's one to try on your friends; Who is the winningest pitcher in major league history not to win the Cy Young award?" [That would be Cy Young.]
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DDOT identifies future Circulator routes
After receiving public input from over 500 online rider surveys, four Citizens Advisory Panels, and several town halls, DDOT has released a map of recommended new Circulator bus routes.
Officials hope to make these a reality over the next 2 to 3 years if they can get funding from the DC Council, though in the current budget climate the chances may be remote.
Which routes should get Circulator service and which should not? Circulator has been so successful that residents from many neighborhoods have clamored for service, and some Councilmembers have proposed legislation mandating certain routes. Still, the Circulator should not serve every bus route.
DDOT originally conceived Circulator service as a way to bring tourists from the monumental core into the city's neighborhoods to dine and shop. The new plan chooses routes that connect major "activity centers" in the District not linked by rail transit. Each route would have limited-stop buses running every 10 minutes, continuing the current Circulator brand.
"Activity centers" are defined as areas with timely and sizable change in land use that are or will be built out by 2020, containing more than 1 million square feet of residential and commercial space, and a mix of uses, as well as "main street mixed-use corridors."
DDOT's study recommends 10 new and extended routes, based on four different priority-ranked maps generated by the citizens' advisory panels:
The three that seem to make the most sense are extensions of existing Circulators: bringing the Rosslyn-Georgetown-Dupont bus to 14th and U
via New Hampshire Avenue, extending the Waterfront-Convention Center route east on M Street to the Navy Yard and Nationals Park, and bringing the Union Station-Navy Yard bus up into NoMa, perhaps serving the New York Avenue Metro station.
Also sure to generate high ridership are a Waterfront-Dupont Circle via the Mall and Farragut Square link, a U Street NW-Florida Avenue-North Capitol Street-H Street NE bus (perhaps to be shortened to connect with the streetcar at Union Station), an Anacostia-Skyland-Minnesota Avenue link, and a Brookland-Tenleytown link via Hospital Center/McMillan, Petworth, Columbia Heights, Adams Morgan, Connecticut Avenue and Van Ness.
Rider surveys identified friendly professional drivers, service frequency and limited stops as the three most-liked aspects of Circulator. The top three improvements users cited were longer hours, more weekend service and bringing the Circulator stop at Union Station closer to the Metrobus stop. Riders also like the interior configurations of Circulator buses as they are.
First Transit— Of course, all of this is contingent upon securing the necessary funding. That's a challenging prospect given the city's budget shortfall. If you like these plans, let Mayor-elect Gray, Chairman-elect Brown and your Councilmembers know that you want to see these transit improvement plans, along with the streetcars, come to fruition.
Of course, all of this is contingent upon securing the necessary funding. That's a challenging prospect given the city's budget shortfall. If you like these plans, let Mayor-elect Gray, Chairman-elect Brown and your Councilmembers know that you want to see these transit improvement plans, along with the streetcars, come to fruition.
2) I really like the proposed Adams Morgan - H St line. The fact that it hits the NY Ave Metro, NoMa, and Union Station are a nice touch. However, because it doesn't extend into the residential neighborhoods south of the river, I suspect that ridership would be somewhat less than what we currently have on the 90/92/93 lines. Also, there are only so many buses and streetcars that you can ram through H St at any given time. I'd also suggest extending it a few blocks south to Eastern Market...
(In fact, I'd love to see WMATA find a new alignment for the 90s that makes the Dave Thomas Circle detour a little less awkward, and also provides better connectivity to the NY Ave Metro/NoMa.
New Hampshire becomes one way after T Street, so unless the Circulator makes a right on T, left on 16th, right on U, it wouldn't work. A better route would be to travel down 18th Street and make a right on U.
by David Alpert on Nov 9, 2010 10:18 am • link • report
The actual routing that the bus will take to get from Dupont to U Street is TBD. The point is that the service will connect those activity centers.
Am I alone on this?
by David Alpert on Nov 9, 2010 10:45 am • link • report
You are spot on. The beauty of circulator is the simple, predictable straight line routs. Whenever I see these twists and turns it looks like a metrobus map and looses some of its effectiveness. Remember, it is suppossed to be tourist friendly as well. My general rule would be "If it deviates from a straight line by X number of blocks, add an additional line.
The original intent was to bring people into Georgetown from the two nearby stations (and Foggy Bottom, too, when the BB served that line).
Moving it into Dupont Circule, and then New Hampshire (or as proposed here, 18th) means you are going into three very busy areas -- which means more delays and more buses to do the same route.
What might be more helpful it split it into two lines -- keep the Rosslyn/Dupont and add a Dupont-U st. Not a one bus solution, but if you want one bus run a metrobus -- which can take more people.
Is it true that the streetcars will stop substantially more frequently than the Circulators? It seems this would make them a lot less useful.
Is it true that the streetcars will stop substantially more frequently than the Circulators? It seems this would make them a lot less useful.
Do you think? I'm always stunned by the frequency of stops when riding Metro buses. Every other block seems excessive. Convert half of those stops into "disabled-only" stops, and you've got a more efficient service.
The streetcars will not stop more frequently than most Circulator buses.
The H Street Line, scheduled to open in 2012 between Union Station and Oklahoma Avenue in NE will have 7 stops on its initial 2 mile segment. That's about 1/3 of a mile between stops.
Over the same distance, the X2 Metrobus currently stops 15 times.
Streetcar stops will be located on the H Street Line at:
- Union Station
- 4th Street
- 8th Street
- 13th Street
- 15th Street/Bladensburg Road
- 19th Street
- Oklahoma Avenue
by Matt Johnson on Nov 9, 2010 1:10 pm • link • report
It seems like we could easily use this technique in DC, as most of the heavily-trafficked local routes run along a small set of corridors through the downtown core.
Really? back in the day the 30s busses used to go all the way Wisonsin Avenue - they don't anymore?
U Street/H Street connection would also be amazing! I like the Circulators so much more than Metro buses - they are clean, reliable, and cheap.
Thanks for the replies. I agree that less stops = better service, and am glad that the streetcars will hopefully offer the same limited-frequency approach to stops. Sorry if my earlier comment didn't parse right!
In a recently completed corridor study of the U Street-Garfield (90s) Line, it was recommended that a new peak period limited stop Route 99 service be implemented between Anacostia Metro Station and Dupont Circle. This route would have 18 stops and operate in the U Street corridor to the Dupont Circle Metro Station via U Street, Florida Avenue, Connecticut Avenue and 20th Street to the Q Street entrance.
by Douglas Stallworth on Nov 9, 2010 2:37 pm • link • report
To me the circulator should be really simple and/or go directly to a place a someone would want to go. Not to pick on Georgetown again, but exactly what is up Wisconsin that a tourist would want to go to once they are past Georgetown.
A line that may make sense is Adams Morgan to U St to H st via the route the 90 buses go. The length of a North and South Capital streets stopping at the ballpark and union station.
In general, much like improving service to the SW Waterfront, it would make the red route a lot more useful than it is now.
by J.D. Hammond on Nov 9, 2010 3:53 pm • link • report
by J.D. Hammond on Nov 9, 2010 4:02 pm • link • report
I'm especially excited about Adams Morgan-Columbia Heights-Petworth (included within one of the proposed routes). Currently Adams Morgan and Petworth are connected in such roundabout ways requiring metro/bus transfers that you can almost walk the 2 mile distance in the time it takes to get there on transit.
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@nathaniel, you asked "What is up Wisconsin that a tourist would want to go to once they are past Georgetown?"
I'd say the Washington National Cathedral.
The circulator is necessary to improve Wisconsin congestion. The corridor is among D.C.'s slowest and with the exception of the 37, the buses can take anywhere from 30-60 minutes in rush hour to reach downtown. A format of buses every ten minutes would appeal to more people, potentially adding riders to the line.
Meanwhile, the Tenley-Brookland line seems a mess. While I like the idea of replacing the H3/4 buses, why serve the Van Ness-UDC station? NIMBYs already complain about the infrequent N8, so how could they possibly deal with a bus every 10 minutes. The concept is good, but needs refining.
I also love connecting Dupont to the Waterfront, it is an underutilized space that could use more connectibility.
Nothing, but that area is home to tens of thousands of residents, and those people would benefit from a route connecting their metro-inaccessible neighborhoods to the inner core.
by J.D. Hammond on Nov 9, 2010 4:56 pm • link • report
@beatbox Metrobus is slow and unreliable. 30's are frequently late and infrequent altogether outside of rush hour. Wisconsin more guilty of bus bunching than any other street in D.C. you might wait thirty minutes for a bus just to have a 32 followed by a 31 followed by a 36. All circulator routes are much better about timing.
As to the current reduncy on 14th and 7th. If the circulator only ran on 14th I would agree, but to me the big advantage is it connects to Adams Morgan. If it didn't do that I would agree it is not needed.
As to 7th st line, it ends at the convention center. While there is traffic, the route itself I don't believe is long enough for the congestion to really through off the schedule as would occur (and does with the current bunching of the 30s) if you ran all the way up Wisconsin.
I guess what I like about the current circulators is all the routes connect a metro station to a defined point of interest (Waterfront, Convention Center, Adams Morgan, Georgetown) in a very straight forward unconfusing way.
I do note if they want to rebrand some of the existing service as ciruclators that too could be good. I think from my experience competeing bus lines are really confusing for people.
Agree that circulator timing is better, and I would like it to remain that way. Long routes is one of the reasons bunching occurs. Now if they had a separate Wisc. Ave/M st. line I would be all for it.
by J.D. Hammond on Nov 9, 2010 5:44 pm • link • report
We recommended to the District delegation to the WMATA board that they start thinking BACK IN 1984-1987 about how to "municipalize" the DC part of the Metrobus system when (not if) Metrobus began to shrink as Metrorail and locally controlled bus services in the suburbs expanded.
It was like selling bibles to atheists (with at most three notable and praiseworthy exceptions, one of whom - Tom Downs - apparently has returned to work on the Gray transition downtown.)
DC was being left holding up the entire edifice of Metrobus as all (repeat: all) the other former Metrobus "customers" localized more and more of their bus routes. Which had the effect of "throwing" an increasing share of the "sunk costs" (mostly infrastructure) for all of Metrobus back on the District.
There still remains the unresolved strategic question of how and when Metrobus gets formally reconstituted to the openly "federated" regional transit bus operation that it has been somewhat involuntarily evolving into since that first Takoma-East Silver Spring bus rattled around downtown Silver Spring, eventually morphing into RideOn, which is now the tenth or eleventh largest transit bus operation in the country. After that we had Fairfax Connector, CUE, DASH, TheBus and, finally, ARTS.
So, in the strategic sense, better the DC Circulator late than never.
Now let's start a serious City-wide Conversation (in the Hillary Clinton sense of the term "conversation") about how to euthanize Metrobus. We probably ought to call the DC-controlled system that we will have to rebuild out of it "Phoenix."
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I'm really excited about some of these lines making it easier to get around the city so the system can live up to its name even more than it does now, especially Adams Morgan-H Street, Dupont-Waterfront, and the Tenleytown-Brookland connection, which brilliantly manages to include Petworth and the north edge of Howard University.
Regarding simplicity, as the Circulator adds more lines, signage will become much more important, both on the buses themselves (sometimes I see generic information like "Metro" or the wrong direction showing) and at the stops. Listing destinations is one possibility. I notice the bus display signs are capable of using color Â… are there enough colors for the number of lines being proposed?
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The Anglican Bishop of Chichester John Hind has announced that he is considering converting to Catholicism based on the Anglican initiative of Pope Benedict. This is a shocker. He is one of the senior bishops of the Anglican Church and not previously identified with Anglicans who wished to break away from the Anglican Church.
The Rt Rev John Broadhurst, the Bishop of Fulham, even claimed that "the Anglican experiment is over". He said it has been shown to be powerless to cope with the crises over gays and women bishops.
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Pope Benedict's Anglican initiative may well be the most significant move in Catholic-Protestant relations in centuries. Bravo Pope Benedict!
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I think this is amazing.
What a beautiful thing to be able to witness on this Earth.
Perhaps the 21st century will be the century of Christian re-unification, as Pope John Paul II prayed it would be.
This is wonderful news and it will be good.
Of course, re-unification also makes for only one target for the anti-Christians. Although, a cord is easily ripped, but a woven bundle of cords is far stronger.
Very interesting development. What would he mean by "his previous ministry being recognized"?
I'm not sure. If he wants to be ordained as a Catholic priest there should be no problem with that. I can imagine him also as one of the first Ordinaries of the Anglican Rite. Since he is married, being a Bishop would be impossible under what Pope Benedict has proposed.
Why is there so little [if any] discussion about religion in all these reports? Celibacy, married bishops, active homosexuals, women priests and bishops – but nothing about what were considered the major sticking points – the Real Presence [denial of which "turned a sacrament into a ceremony"] – Infallibility [without which each man had to fabricate his own creed], and such matters.
It will be a great hardship for many of the Anglican / Episcopalian clergy to give up their careers. Let us hope it is not for negative reasons but rather for positive reasons.
The short answer is that theologically the debate would be over; they return to Rome by accepting the Catechesis of the Catholic Church – lock, stock and barrel.
The missing link in your question may be the fact that the Church of England has traditionally had 2 wings: Low and High church; a simple definition might be more protestant/calvinist (low) less protestant/lutheran-ish (high). In the early-mid 1800's a third wing evolved, Anglo-catholic.
The Anglo-Catholics rose to prominence under the famous leadership of Pusey and Newman. The simplest way to put it would be thus: they advocated a return to the original Anglicanism of Henry VIII… that is, an English Catholic Church that had all the doctrine and continuity of the catholic tradition off of which the English branch split. Pusey remained Anglican under this rubric, while Newman followed his conscience and reason back to full communion with Rome.
Benedict's offer appeals to the Puseyites of the Anglican Church… those who have already accepted the "c"atholic tradition, but for varied (usually cultural) reasons were unable/unwilling to "pope."
That is why there is little discussion of fundamental theology, since most of the impediments are cultural and not theological.
Perhaps the best book written on Newman and the Oxford Movement (Anglo-catholicism) is Marvin O'Connell's _The Oxford Conspirators_ if you are interested in more.
Thanks for that bit of history!
And the book recommendation.
Ironic, isn't it, that this good news follows the post about the English and Welsh Martyrs? Methinks the Lord's work is keeping the Martyrs very busy these days,…,:-)
Oops, scratch that "are" in the last sentence of my post.
(My typos always jump right out at me the second I click on "submit comment.")
It struck me as quite odd Donna when I posted these on Sunday Donna! I do think there is much joy in Heaven over this move by our Pope.


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The lack of short selling, however, means that temporary supply/demand imbalances like this lead to effective price gouging for buyers who assume the eBay price is "fair". It's certainly fair for the moment, but the expected ROI on this purchase for the collector is likely to be disasterous.
Still, I wouldn't mind the ability to short sell a few hundred rolls. If you have access to a bank that actually has these rolls, you'd be a fool not to put them up on eBay quickly, before the prices settle down. Do I have any readers in Kentucky? If so, can you pick me up a box?
Highest selling rolls were with Hodgenville, KY post office (postmark) stamp–although the postage stamp itself was a nice touch–and a "passport" stamp from the Lincoln Birthplace national historic site in the same place.
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That kind of mark-up could have easily purchased round-tip airfare. Might be good for the next big event. Washington's 300th is in 2032, and we should be out of the Depression by then.March 6, 2009
That really is insane. I know I will be stopping over at our local bank tomorrow to see if they have any rolls they would be willing to part with. I love selling stocks short. Its too bad that violates eBay's policy because it would be way too much fun shipping out those orders. I almost want to email the bidders and warn them… but buyer beware I guess.March 15, 2009


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Poster boy for the DA's charm offensive
The Big Read: "The DA wasn't an obvious choice for me," said Mmusi Maimane, the party's mayoral candidate for Johannesburg. "Getting into politics, I researched the ANC, COPE . everyone, because I realised that my political affiliation was going to be very important."
Now that he's made the choice he's being criticised for being a "token black" in the DA.
"It was Mandela who said that we need to be liberated from the racism and sexism of our past. I believe that the future of this country depends on democracy and that's what spoke to me about the DA," he said.
"I feel that, if I joined the ANC, I would be working towards liberating black people only, whereas with the DA I am potentially liberating everyone and building a nonracist, nonsexist society.
"If we're going to be a healthy democracy we have to rescue South Africa from being a one-party state," he said, acknowledging South Africa's difficult past.
"My parents suffered under apartheid but they never taught me racism. It breaks me that some politicians want to fight the elections on race.
"I'm amazed when people refer to me as the DA's black candidate. But, having said that, I love that I'm black. It comes from a heritage that I'm proud of."
The suave 30-year-old with a master's degree in theology exudes easy confidence. His assertion that he can make a real difference to society is convincing. With his private school accent and Soweto birthright, he straddles the divides and ticks the right boxes.
He is stylish, erudite, personable and impressive, and, as far as I can tell, he's squeaky clean.
Dressed in a tailored grey suit, casually unbuttoned, and sipping apricot juice at Café Post, in Braamfontein, opposite the DA offices, Maimane appears unfazed by the frenzy of the election campaign.
"I've been involved in NGOs for years," he said with a charming smile that's guaranteed to become the hallmark of his political career.
"I went to a Catholic school where I was inspired by a nun, Sister Christine, who taught me to be critical. She has been one of the most influential people in my life."
Family is very important to Maimane. His father works for a lock-making company and his mother works in pharmaceuticals, "though not the Nigerian kind," he jokes - and there's that poster-perfect smile again.
Once quoted as saying that he did not want to end up in a country led by Julius Malema, Maimane won't let me draw him into a comparison between him and the ANC Youth League president. He deftly dodges my attempts to bait him.
He is idealistic about the direction he thinks the Johannesburg municipality should take.
"Hypocrisy is no good. We must be accountable to the people as politicians," he said.
"There's an urgent need to return to the place where public service is just that: service to the people. It's about giving people access to the mayor, to tender meetings, to policy reviews, so that the people know what's happening. It's time to debunk the idea of politicians building themselves towers that no one can access."
Maimane plays down the fact that he is currently completing his second master's degree, in public administration. It's would be an obvious asset to him in working for the city though.
"Cities work in direct proportion to the competence of their administrators," he said. "I come from a party that has a history of policies that are working."
Frequently questioned for his youthfulness and lack of political experience Maimane said: "My nomination for mayor of Johannesburg is consistent with global trends. We want to bring competence to the office, despite age, in a developing economy where half of the population is under 30.
"The issues that we have today in this country are unique and so we need to be innovative in our solutions. This is where youthfulness helps. I'm very proud of my age. With youth comes flexibility and the determination to try new things until we get it right."
With the elections just a few days away, it's difficult to turn the discussion away from politics but his face lights up when he talks about his nine-month-old daughter, whom he described as "fantastic".
"She reminds me of my dedication to the idea that everyone has the right to be looked after by the government. In particular, it's the poor, who have no alternatives, who need us most."
I leave the Braamfontein coffee shop with the feeling that I'm going to be seeing plenty more of this handsome, idealistic and charming young politician.


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The diamond engagement ring that Kim Kardashian was given by ex-husband Kris Humphries has been sold to an anonymous bidder at New York City's famed auction house Christie's on Tuesday.
The ring, a Lorraine Schwartz creation that features a 16-carat rectangle-cut diamond, was originally purchased by Humphries for about $2 million. The sparkler sold for $620,000 (plus a $129,000 commission), much higher than the $300,000 to $500,000 it was expected to fetch.
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Spring Recap: Women's Tennis Continues Improvement Under Coach Modise
Four freshmen earned all-conference honors this past season.
Four Women's Tennis Players Earn All-Conference Honors
This is the first time since 1996 that a Southern Miss team had multiple all-conference honorees.
Women's Tennis Team Upsets No. 6 Seed FIU 4-2
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Kathrin Waidner went undefeated for the weekend.
Dominic Modise completed his third season at the helm of the Golden Eagle women's tennis program.
Modise's Golden Eagles finished the season 9-12 overall with a five players posting double digit wins during the season including one with 20 or more wins. For the second consecutive season, Modise placed a player on the all-conference team.
Modise took a talented freshmen-laden squad and produced a plus-12 turnover over the 2013 season. For his efforts, Golden Eagles earned a record four players earning C-USA All-Conference accolades, Not only did the team show progress on the court, but off the court as well as the team achieved the athletic department's most improved team GPA.
Prior to coming to Southern Miss, Modise was named the head coach of the North Carolina Wesleyan men's and women's tennis programs in 2007. The 2012 season saw Modise's teams continue to raise the expectations of North Carolina Wesleyan men's tennis after capturing a fourth-straight USA South regular season title, tournament crown and NCAA berth. The Bishops were ranked as high as No. 5 in the nation earlier in the season after defeating Kenyon College, which recently made a national championship appearance. This season also saw Wesleyan's women's team turn the corner with a third straight winning season and a share of the program's first USA South regular season championship.
His five-year tenure at NCWC saw Modise produce 44 All-Conference performers (29 male, 15 female), four USA South Rookies of the Year (three males, one female), ITA Player of the Year to Watch, ITA Rookie of the Year, ITA Regional Doubles Champions, All-American (three males), NCAA Elite 8 and three Sweet 16 finishes, a Top 10 national rankings and one USA South Player of the Year. His Bishops combined for nine conference regular season and/or tournament championships, and he exits as the all-time winningest coach in the history of both programs. For his efforts, Modise earned the league's Coach of the Year award on four occasions.
Previous to NCWC, Modise helped the Buffaloes earn an NCAA Tournament berth and a third-place finish in the Big 12 Conference. Both overall records during the dual season (16-8) and in the conference (9-2) were school-bests since 1999.
Among his responsibilities, Modise assisted the CU success on the singles court at the No. 4, 5, and 6 positions. All three slots were a combined overall mark of 65-26 (.714), 47-21 (.691) in dual play, and 22-10 (.688) against the conference. He also coached the No. 3 doubles tandem of Melisa Esposito and Martina Sedivec to position champion conference honors with a perfect 9-0 record.
Before joining the Buffalo staff, Modise spent two years as head coach at Nicholls State University (Thibodaux, La.) rebuilding the men's tennis program after a 15-year absence. He guided NSU to the conference tournament for the first time in school history and coached the team to a top-five league finish with only two scholarship student-athletes.
Prior to his successful efforts at Nicholls State, Modise was the assistant men's and women's tennis coach at the University of New Orleans. There he coached a pair of women to national recognition among the elite Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Top-100 rankings and guided both programs to top-five finishes in the Sun Belt Conference. Additionally, Modise helped raise $15,000 to benefit the tennis programs and assisted with Children's Wish and the Privateers fundraising tournament. He has also been involved with fundraising through Legg Mason and the ATP Tour Futures Tournaments.
From 2000-02, Modise was the interim head coach University of Louisiana at Lafayette. At UL, he helped the Lady Cajuns reach a Top-75 national ranking and led the team to its best finish in school history. During his tenure, he coached one of his women's players to a national ranking of No. 111, the highest ranking of any UL tennis student-athlete in school history.
During his collegiate playing days at Central Alabama Community College, Modise ranked among the Top-20 in the NJCAA singles rankings and was nominated as a NJCAA Player to Watch. He was also voted the Most Inspirational and the Most Valuable Player by his teammates. In the classroom, Modise was named an All-WAC scholar athlete before completing his associate's degree in 1997. He went on to earn his bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in December of 1999. In 2003, he completed his master's degree in human performance with a concentration in sport management from the University of New Orleans.
Originally from South Africa, Modise speaks four languages: English, Dutch, Tswana and Zulu.
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Skip to comments.A Lost Keith Olbermann Wanders Aimlessly Around Central Park (PIC)
Posted on 04/20/2012 7:28:35 AM PDT by JesseWatters
Unemployed, perennially confrontational talking head Keith Olbermann aimlessly wandered around Central Park South earlier this week, seemingly looking for a friend or a purpose. Our spies snapped unflattering pictures of Olbermann decked out in a giant red pullover and clownishly baggy jeans as he strolled 59th Street near Seventh Avenue, smelling the roses or, in this case, the horse manure, allergens and aromas from a nearby food cart.
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probably looking for his brain..
I'm sorry but it's very sad.
Perhaps he will do some inner reflection but I don't think so.
Perhaps he will find Christ, we can only hope.
I'm not going to gloat over this. I'm just going to pray for him.
He'll be feeding the pigeons soon.
I hear Dan Rather has a tiny office down a long hallway on 42nd Street.
Maybe the two of them could get together. A guy's gotta have a friend.
I want to see the clownish baggy jeans he's said to have been wearing. Did they edit them out?
He's gotta' be filthy rich. Why is he hanging around a park? Doesn't he have cruises or trips he'd like to go on? I think that he should take his mother with him. No need to live in her basement sulking!
Maybe looking for some occutards? His fans are out there, somewhere......
Cheer up Kieth! With all those folks walking by I'm sure somebody needs belittling.
But I'm certain he'll pick up a gig somewhere - there is a small but very loyal segment that loves the kind of leftist bile that is Olbermann's specialty.
saw them in concert & Frank Black solo
He's just waiting to be names Obama's next press secretary.
"Im not going to gloat over this. Im just going to pray for him."
Nice thought, but not sure I'd waste prayer time on him... wait, that's not true, I'm SURE I wouldn't waste prayer time on him.
Olbermann is very wealthy, or should be. He's made more money than most Americans will make in a lifetime. Olbermann should be in a position to never want for anything, and has the opportunity to set any direction for his life that he wishes. What a luxury!
Even though Olbermann is a very mean spirited, and less than honest soul, I wish him no ill. But, I do wish that he never gets another platform for his hateful spew.
No, he'll become the pigeon that people begin to feed...
He's not really in Central Park. He's on 59th St. which borders the park. He probably lives on that street - one of the most beautiful and expensive residential areas in the city.
Somehow the picture puts me in the mind of "The Fisher King".
Jeff Bridges role.
He's insufferable. Obnoxious. Arrogant. Self-important.
But, CurrentTV is also a rinky-dink operation. His irritation with them was probably justified.
During their original run or reunion?
What's a Keith Olbermann?
Looks like the rumors are true:
Keefie IS a pantload, lol
I'd wager if you got a glimpse of his bank account gained at the expense of attacking America and your freedom, you might not be quite as sympathetic. I personally think he can go to straight to hell, and the sooner the better.
I don't think those two egos can fit in any one room together.
If we can believe tabloid type stories, he clashed with his bosses at both MSNBC and Current TV.
He seems to be one of these people who is pissed off all the time.
What can you say about somebody who just can't get along with people? Even the liberals who run MSNBC and Current TV couldn't put up with him, even though he has been a star in the liberal talking head world.
I'm going to listen to the Pixies now.
Olbermann waiting for his next gig?
Selling one's soul for money is not a good thing. And some are so ignorant that they think it is. Then reality bites in the butt.
Olbermann was earning in the area of $7 to $10 million a year, from what I have heard.
Whatever else is going on with him, he should not have any worries about how to pay his bills.
What? No hoodie?
just got all nostalgic over here
He's gotten large. And unkept. Soon he will look like Michael Moore.
Could be. But, without cash flow from a steady income, you can see your bank balance dwindle pretty quickly in NYC, especially if you're used to living in high style.
Loud mouth arrogant dipsh!t!
"What's the frequency, Keith."
Fashion victim.
They could sit in the office and play Battleship.
LOL! What a fat a$$!
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A commitment to mediating conflicts has taken John Paul Lederach to all corners of the globe. He is professor in the Kroc Institute for Inter national Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and he recently won the Reinhold Nie buhr Award given each year to a member of the Notre Dame community whose life and writings exemplifies a passion for social justice. His books include The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace (Oxford, 2005).
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