We arrived home late last night after nearly 12 hours of flying on our return from a week in Burke, Virginia, where we were visiting former neighbors (and two of our favorite twins, and a couple of great cats!). This morning we were up early, went out for our morning walk to the beach, then [...]
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A story yesterday by Pacific Business News reporter Lynn Nakagawa highlighted several recently announced departures from journalism by experienced reporters (“Honolulu reporters crossing over to PR and communications“). Those reporters include Ron Mizutani of KHON, Minna Sugimoto of Hawaii News Now, Jodi Leong of KITV, and most recently, Gene Park of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser . [...]
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Larry Geller’s Disappeared News blog took on the issue of rail with an interesting slant: Although the commercial media have framed the transit issue as Rail/No Rail, that’s not the core problem. The problem is that we have no part in planning our own communities, including, but not limited to, how and where we live [...]
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There’s been some interesting media news in the past few days. The New York Times reports the Federal Communications Commission is taking another look at sharing agreements that have combined broadcast news resources from formerly competing stations, similar to Hawaii News Now, the merger of KGMB, KHNL, and KFVE. The Federal Communications Commission does not [...]
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I was quite surprised to see Lowell Kalapa’s column in Civil Beat this week alleging that a bill establishing new estate tax law, now awaiting the governor’s signature, was flawed because “one legislator decided to add a special provision to take care of some unspecified constituent.” Here’s some of what Kalapa had to say about [...]
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These night blooming beauties grow in front of a neighbor’s house. We walked up the road behind the fire station and past her house just a few minutes after dawn, but the area was still in shadows and some of the blooms hadn’t faded yet.
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Is there a story lurking here? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But I thought I would share a simple example of where news stories originate when you’re not relying on press releases and insider tips. One of the skills you learn is pattern recognition, which is in part learning to spot deviations from the norm. So yesterday [...]
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Now I can report that when your YouTube video passes the million views threshold, nothing special happens. No one comes to your house with cans of tuna cat food and catnip, no contract offers, not even an email notification. Romeo and I slipped past a million views late Saturday night, apparently not long before midnight. [...]
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