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<DIV>Saundra writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>"I challenge the Daily News to – for 365 days – provide
the same number, based on enrollments numbers, of human interest stories about
schools other than NSA & Logos as they provide for those two schools.
How about it, Daily News – are you up for the
challenge? "</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR>The amount of news coverage ought reflect the size of the enrollment in
the institutions. It's hard to believe that a school with an enrollment of
less than 200 with generates as much news of importance as one of 18,000 with
far more diverse activities going on.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The relationship between the local print media and the tentacles of the
Christ Church Cult is cozy to the point of almost being yellow journalism.
I wonder how much of the text of the articles about them is actually written by
Bobby Horrendous of the cult.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>As for readership, the print media needs to recognize that the influence
and size of the cult is on the wane in this area, and for good reasons.
</DIV>
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<DIV>Good business sense should dictate more balanced coverage [and more news,
less fluff (read : lint)] to avoid alienating readers and thus losing
readership. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I have also noticed that the fluff pieces not only on the cult but on
several persons and organizations contain quotes obviously not subjected to
fact checking since they are patently false. [For example, a person
interviewed claimed that grey wolves weigh 150 - 160 pounds. Fact:
on the average their weight is half that.] The newspaper ought to learn
the difference between fact and fantasy so that its readers are not misled on
hot button and other issues. Fact checking takes work. As previously
noted here, David Johnson, the reporter who interviewed the delusional wolf
foe, seems to eschew such duties just as he did on the Postcardgate
articles under his byline.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The community deserves better. If it doesn't get it, then the
business consequences and financial outlook for the local print media will
not be rosy.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Wayne A. Fox<BR>1009 Karen Lane<BR>PO Box 9421<BR>Moscow, ID
83843</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="mailto:waf@moscow.com">waf@moscow.com</A><BR>208
882-7975<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm href="mailto:v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm">Saundra
Lund</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=kjajmix1@msn.com
href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">'keely emerinemix'</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=alford@dnews.com
href="mailto:alford@dnews.com">alford@dnews.com</A> ; <A
title=lrozen@dnews.com href="mailto:lrozen@dnews.com">lrozen@dnews.com</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:11
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] students away
from home</DIV>
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belated Happy Thanksgiving to all!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I
apologize for the delay in responding, but things got away from me with the
holiday, and I didn’t want to let this pass without thanking Keely for her
thoughtful post. I think she makes <B>excellent</B>
points.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">One
of the enduring criticisms I’ve heard about the Daily News over the last
several years is the disproportionate number of “fluff” (or human interest)
stories about NSA & Logos compared to other local educational institutions
when looking at enrollment. Other area schools have great things going
on & inspiring students as well, something readers of the Daily News
wouldn’t have much – if any – idea about. Indeed, this clear preference
is one of the reasons a lot of folks have given up on the Daily News providing
unbiased coverage.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Personally,
I find the clear preference for NSA & Logos fluff stories – although not
the individual human subjects themselves, of course -- repulsive.
Perhaps it’s as you imply – that NSA, and Logos, presumably – simply excel at
shameless self-promotion. Nonetheless, it’s the job of real
<B>journalists</B> to do a decent job getting the stories when “government”
and other local school teachers & administrators are focused on providing
quality educations rather than on finding time for shameless
self-promotion. Human interest stories shouldn’t be limited to what
shows up on someone’s desk virtually written for the reporter; at least,
that’s not the way a real newspaper operates.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I
challenge the Daily News to – for 365 days – provide the same number, based on
enrollments numbers, of human interest stories about schools other than NSA
& Logos as they provide for those two schools. How about it, Daily
News – are you up for the challenge? You might actually find your
subscriber numbers increase if you paid the same attention to students at the
other local schools as you give to the two local schools that excel at nothing
so much as shameless self-promotion.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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Lund<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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ID<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">~
Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Original material contained herein is Copyright 2010 through life plus 70
years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside
the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the
author.*****<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>keely emerinemix<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 25, 2010
12:26 PM<BR><B>To:</B> vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020]
students away from home<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Good morning and
Happy Thanksgiving, Visionaires --<BR><BR>I wonder if anyone else noticed a
particular story in this morning's Daily News, which, as most of you know, is
what the Alford family has decided will pass for print journalism on the
Palouse but which once again has proved to be nothing more than a shill -- a
flack, a PR job, a booster -- for New St. Andrews and all things
Kirk-related. If you think the D-N does a great job covering news from
Latah and Whitman counties, you might be offended if you read further.
If, on the other hand, you recall ever having read a real newspaper, and kind
of thought newspapers were a good thing, you might share my dismay.<BR><BR>I'm
referring to a top-of-the-page spread reporting on the scintillating
Thanksgiving holiday plans of two NSA students -- one from Texas, the other
from Toronto -- who might have dinner today at Roy Atwood's place and then,
you know, like, hang out and have a snowball fight and do some studying.
This gripping account of two nice, if somewhat bland, young men, neither of
whose stories demonstrated any particular angle or interest except for the
fact that they could free up time for an interview, covered a good 12 column
inches and included fascinating revelations about how people from Texas and
people from Toronto have different past experiences with snowfall. Now,
I want to be fair here -- perhaps the reporter was going for a lighthearted
piece on "Thanksgiving Plans Of People From Places That Begin With The Letter
'T'," but I'd have to then point out, in the interest of consistency, that
Texas is the state and Toronto is the city, and so Texas and Ontario are the
parallels, and they begin with different letters, and so there goes the angle
of the story . . . which kind of begs the question, then, of the news-feature
value of the Thanksgiving plans of two out-of-state guys at a small college
with a demographic that's remarkably, and purposely, similar in every
respect. Of course NSA might be the home of someone with a newsworthy or
even feature-worthy holiday story, but in this case, it seems that simply
being a St. Andy's guy in November was all that was required.
<BR><BR>The editors of the Daily News, dazzled as they are by our local Oxford
Donnabees and their students' perspicacious views on snowfall and studying,
might have forgotten that there is in Moscow another college -- a university,
in fact -- that has nearly 40 times the number of students, many of whom are
not upper-middle-class conservative, white, Christian Americans, and some of
whom likely have really newsworthy Thanksgiving plans, even if they're not
learning Latin. I can't help but wonder if the away-from-home
experiences of someone from Ghana or Guatemala, Poland or Papua New Guinea,
might be at least as gripping, perhaps even as educational, as those of our
Texas and Ontario students. I wonder if, in a university community of
eight or ten thousand students, there might be someone conquering enormous
hardship during the holidays, or spending his or her week off rescuing
endangered sea turtles, distributing AIDS medicines to the poor, or organizing
a food drive for prisoners' families. I'd even bet that there are folks
in our community who open their homes to all sorts of different people for
Thanksgiving dinner -- maybe even people they don't know, but who, as is
always the case in university towns, are away from home for the holidays and
need a place to feel welcomed. There are a lot of interesting,
uplifting, edifying feature stories available to newspaper reporters during
the holiday season; I know because I've written quite a few myself. But
there's something terribly skewed when a local newspaper blithely skips over
the rich fields of genuinely news- or feature-worthy stories and instead
consistently runs straight over to the least-likely-to-be-significant and
far-less-relevant arena of carefully groomed, judiciously packaged, and
energetically promoted "movement" that is New St. Andrews. I hope the
two young men interviewed have a great Thanksgiving, but my hoping so is about
as newsworthy as is the description of their plans for the day -- or
mine.<BR><BR>I don't fault NSA for heartily promoting itself. It's a
disgrace, though, that its efforts are augmented so readily by a local
institution that ought to exist to promote something else entirely: The
responsible, unbiased, and robust reporting of NEWS, not NSA.
</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: #8064a2"><BR><BR>Keely<BR><A
href="http://www.keely-prevailingwinds.com">www.keely-prevailingwinds.com</A><BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">"I
challenge the Daily News to – for 365 days – provide the same number, based on
enrollments numbers, of human interest stories about schools other than NSA
& Logos as they provide for those two schools. How about it, Daily
News – are you up for the challenge? "</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm href="mailto:v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm">Saundra
Lund</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=kjajmix1@msn.com
href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">'keely emerinemix'</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=alford@dnews.com
href="mailto:alford@dnews.com">alford@dnews.com</A> ; <A
title=lrozen@dnews.com href="mailto:lrozen@dnews.com">lrozen@dnews.com</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:11
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] students away
from home</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">A
belated Happy Thanksgiving to all!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I
apologize for the delay in responding, but things got away from me with the
holiday, and I didn’t want to let this pass without thanking Keely for her
thoughtful post. I think she makes <B>excellent</B>
points.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">One
of the enduring criticisms I’ve heard about the Daily News over the last
several years is the disproportionate number of “fluff” (or human interest)
stories about NSA & Logos compared to other local educational institutions
when looking at enrollment. Other area schools have great things going
on & inspiring students as well, something readers of the Daily News
wouldn’t have much – if any – idea about. Indeed, this clear preference
is one of the reasons a lot of folks have given up on the Daily News providing
unbiased coverage.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Personally,
I find the clear preference for NSA & Logos fluff stories – although not
the individual human subjects themselves, of course -- repulsive.
Perhaps it’s as you imply – that NSA, and Logos, presumably – simply excel at
shameless self-promotion. Nonetheless, it’s the job of real
<B>journalists</B> to do a decent job getting the stories when “government”
and other local school teachers & administrators are focused on providing
quality educations rather than on finding time for shameless
self-promotion. Human interest stories shouldn’t be limited to what
shows up on someone’s desk virtually written for the reporter; at least,
that’s not the way a real newspaper operates.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I
challenge the Daily News to – for 365 days – provide the same number, based on
enrollments numbers, of human interest stories about schools other than NSA
& Logos as they provide for those two schools. How about it, Daily
News – are you up for the challenge? You might actually find your
subscriber numbers increase if you paid the same attention to students at the
other local schools as you give to the two local schools that excel at nothing
so much as shameless self-promotion.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Saundra
Lund<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Moscow,
ID<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">~
Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">*****
Original material contained herein is Copyright 2010 through life plus 70
years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside
the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the
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vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>keely emerinemix<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 25, 2010
12:26 PM<BR><B>To:</B> vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020]
students away from home<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Good morning and
Happy Thanksgiving, Visionaires --<BR><BR>I wonder if anyone else noticed a
particular story in this morning's Daily News, which, as most of you know, is
what the Alford family has decided will pass for print journalism on the
Palouse but which once again has proved to be nothing more than a shill -- a
flack, a PR job, a booster -- for New St. Andrews and all things
Kirk-related. If you think the D-N does a great job covering news from
Latah and Whitman counties, you might be offended if you read further.
If, on the other hand, you recall ever having read a real newspaper, and kind
of thought newspapers were a good thing, you might share my dismay.<BR><BR>I'm
referring to a top-of-the-page spread reporting on the scintillating
Thanksgiving holiday plans of two NSA students -- one from Texas, the other
from Toronto -- who might have dinner today at Roy Atwood's place and then,
you know, like, hang out and have a snowball fight and do some studying.
This gripping account of two nice, if somewhat bland, young men, neither of
whose stories demonstrated any particular angle or interest except for the
fact that they could free up time for an interview, covered a good 12 column
inches and included fascinating revelations about how people from Texas and
people from Toronto have different past experiences with snowfall. Now,
I want to be fair here -- perhaps the reporter was going for a lighthearted
piece on "Thanksgiving Plans Of People From Places That Begin With The Letter
'T'," but I'd have to then point out, in the interest of consistency, that
Texas is the state and Toronto is the city, and so Texas and Ontario are the
parallels, and they begin with different letters, and so there goes the angle
of the story . . . which kind of begs the question, then, of the news-feature
value of the Thanksgiving plans of two out-of-state guys at a small college
with a demographic that's remarkably, and purposely, similar in every
respect. Of course NSA might be the home of someone with a newsworthy or
even feature-worthy holiday story, but in this case, it seems that simply
being a St. Andy's guy in November was all that was required.
<BR><BR>The editors of the Daily News, dazzled as they are by our local Oxford
Donnabees and their students' perspicacious views on snowfall and studying,
might have forgotten that there is in Moscow another college -- a university,
in fact -- that has nearly 40 times the number of students, many of whom are
not upper-middle-class conservative, white, Christian Americans, and some of
whom likely have really newsworthy Thanksgiving plans, even if they're not
learning Latin. I can't help but wonder if the away-from-home
experiences of someone from Ghana or Guatemala, Poland or Papua New Guinea,
might be at least as gripping, perhaps even as educational, as those of our
Texas and Ontario students. I wonder if, in a university community of
eight or ten thousand students, there might be someone conquering enormous
hardship during the holidays, or spending his or her week off rescuing
endangered sea turtles, distributing AIDS medicines to the poor, or organizing
a food drive for prisoners' families. I'd even bet that there are folks
in our community who open their homes to all sorts of different people for
Thanksgiving dinner -- maybe even people they don't know, but who, as is
always the case in university towns, are away from home for the holidays and
need a place to feel welcomed. There are a lot of interesting,
uplifting, edifying feature stories available to newspaper reporters during
the holiday season; I know because I've written quite a few myself. But
there's something terribly skewed when a local newspaper blithely skips over
the rich fields of genuinely news- or feature-worthy stories and instead
consistently runs straight over to the least-likely-to-be-significant and
far-less-relevant arena of carefully groomed, judiciously packaged, and
energetically promoted "movement" that is New St. Andrews. I hope the
two young men interviewed have a great Thanksgiving, but my hoping so is about
as newsworthy as is the description of their plans for the day -- or
mine.<BR><BR>I don't fault NSA for heartily promoting itself. It's a
disgrace, though, that its efforts are augmented so readily by a local
institution that ought to exist to promote something else entirely: The
responsible, unbiased, and robust reporting of NEWS, not NSA.
</SPAN><SPAN
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href="http://www.keely-prevailingwinds.com">www.keely-prevailingwinds.com</A><BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">"I
challenge the Daily News to – for 365 days – provide the same number, based on
enrollments numbers, of human interest stories about schools other than NSA
& Logos as they provide for those two schools. How about it, Daily
News – are you up for the challenge? "</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm href="mailto:v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm">Saundra
Lund</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=kjajmix1@msn.com
href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">'keely emerinemix'</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=alford@dnews.com
href="mailto:alford@dnews.com">alford@dnews.com</A> ; <A
title=lrozen@dnews.com href="mailto:lrozen@dnews.com">lrozen@dnews.com</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:11
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] students away
from home</DIV>
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belated Happy Thanksgiving to all!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I
apologize for the delay in responding, but things got away from me with the
holiday, and I didn’t want to let this pass without thanking Keely for her
thoughtful post. I think she makes <B>excellent</B>
points.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">One
of the enduring criticisms I’ve heard about the Daily News over the last
several years is the disproportionate number of “fluff” (or human interest)
stories about NSA & Logos compared to other local educational institutions
when looking at enrollment. Other area schools have great things going
on & inspiring students as well, something readers of the Daily News
wouldn’t have much – if any – idea about. Indeed, this clear preference
is one of the reasons a lot of folks have given up on the Daily News providing
unbiased coverage.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Personally,
I find the clear preference for NSA & Logos fluff stories – although not
the individual human subjects themselves, of course -- repulsive.
Perhaps it’s as you imply – that NSA, and Logos, presumably – simply excel at
shameless self-promotion. Nonetheless, it’s the job of real
<B>journalists</B> to do a decent job getting the stories when “government”
and other local school teachers & administrators are focused on providing
quality educations rather than on finding time for shameless
self-promotion. Human interest stories shouldn’t be limited to what
shows up on someone’s desk virtually written for the reporter; at least,
that’s not the way a real newspaper operates.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I
challenge the Daily News to – for 365 days – provide the same number, based on
enrollments numbers, of human interest stories about schools other than NSA
& Logos as they provide for those two schools. How about it, Daily
News – are you up for the challenge? You might actually find your
subscriber numbers increase if you paid the same attention to students at the
other local schools as you give to the two local schools that excel at nothing
so much as shameless self-promotion.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Saundra
Lund<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Moscow,
ID<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">~
Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Original material contained herein is Copyright 2010 through life plus 70
years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside
the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the
author.*****<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>keely emerinemix<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 25, 2010
12:26 PM<BR><B>To:</B> vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020]
students away from home<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Good morning and
Happy Thanksgiving, Visionaires --<BR><BR>I wonder if anyone else noticed a
particular story in this morning's Daily News, which, as most of you know, is
what the Alford family has decided will pass for print journalism on the
Palouse but which once again has proved to be nothing more than a shill -- a
flack, a PR job, a booster -- for New St. Andrews and all things
Kirk-related. If you think the D-N does a great job covering news from
Latah and Whitman counties, you might be offended if you read further.
If, on the other hand, you recall ever having read a real newspaper, and kind
of thought newspapers were a good thing, you might share my dismay.<BR><BR>I'm
referring to a top-of-the-page spread reporting on the scintillating
Thanksgiving holiday plans of two NSA students -- one from Texas, the other
from Toronto -- who might have dinner today at Roy Atwood's place and then,
you know, like, hang out and have a snowball fight and do some studying.
This gripping account of two nice, if somewhat bland, young men, neither of
whose stories demonstrated any particular angle or interest except for the
fact that they could free up time for an interview, covered a good 12 column
inches and included fascinating revelations about how people from Texas and
people from Toronto have different past experiences with snowfall. Now,
I want to be fair here -- perhaps the reporter was going for a lighthearted
piece on "Thanksgiving Plans Of People From Places That Begin With The Letter
'T'," but I'd have to then point out, in the interest of consistency, that
Texas is the state and Toronto is the city, and so Texas and Ontario are the
parallels, and they begin with different letters, and so there goes the angle
of the story . . . which kind of begs the question, then, of the news-feature
value of the Thanksgiving plans of two out-of-state guys at a small college
with a demographic that's remarkably, and purposely, similar in every
respect. Of course NSA might be the home of someone with a newsworthy or
even feature-worthy holiday story, but in this case, it seems that simply
being a St. Andy's guy in November was all that was required.
<BR><BR>The editors of the Daily News, dazzled as they are by our local Oxford
Donnabees and their students' perspicacious views on snowfall and studying,
might have forgotten that there is in Moscow another college -- a university,
in fact -- that has nearly 40 times the number of students, many of whom are
not upper-middle-class conservative, white, Christian Americans, and some of
whom likely have really newsworthy Thanksgiving plans, even if they're not
learning Latin. I can't help but wonder if the away-from-home
experiences of someone from Ghana or Guatemala, Poland or Papua New Guinea,
might be at least as gripping, perhaps even as educational, as those of our
Texas and Ontario students. I wonder if, in a university community of
eight or ten thousand students, there might be someone conquering enormous
hardship during the holidays, or spending his or her week off rescuing
endangered sea turtles, distributing AIDS medicines to the poor, or organizing
a food drive for prisoners' families. I'd even bet that there are folks
in our community who open their homes to all sorts of different people for
Thanksgiving dinner -- maybe even people they don't know, but who, as is
always the case in university towns, are away from home for the holidays and
need a place to feel welcomed. There are a lot of interesting,
uplifting, edifying feature stories available to newspaper reporters during
the holiday season; I know because I've written quite a few myself. But
there's something terribly skewed when a local newspaper blithely skips over
the rich fields of genuinely news- or feature-worthy stories and instead
consistently runs straight over to the least-likely-to-be-significant and
far-less-relevant arena of carefully groomed, judiciously packaged, and
energetically promoted "movement" that is New St. Andrews. I hope the
two young men interviewed have a great Thanksgiving, but my hoping so is about
as newsworthy as is the description of their plans for the day -- or
mine.<BR><BR>I don't fault NSA for heartily promoting itself. It's a
disgrace, though, that its efforts are augmented so readily by a local
institution that ought to exist to promote something else entirely: The
responsible, unbiased, and robust reporting of NEWS, not NSA.
</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: #8064a2"><BR><BR>Keely<BR><A
href="http://www.keely-prevailingwinds.com">www.keely-prevailingwinds.com</A><BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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