Memoirs of an Airport 'Writer in Residence'

Here is an excerpt from an article on a 'writer in residence' who lived for a time and wrote in London's Heathrow airport. To read the entire article, click here.

(CNN) -- The man at a check-in counter at London's Heathrow Airport lost it.

He had just made a frantic sprint to catch his flight to Tokyo, Japan, only to be told he was too late to board. So he banged his fists on the counter and let out a primal scream so loud that he could be heard at the other end of the terminal.

Alain de Botton was watching it all unfold -- one of the many human dramas he observed as Heathrow's first "writer-in-residence." The job required him to do what many travelers would dread: Spend a week at the airport.

Last year, at the invitation of the company that owns Heathrow, de Botton set up a desk in the departures hall of Terminal 5 (perhaps best known to many travelers for its massive baggage handling problems when it opened in 2008) and took in the sights of what he calls "the imaginative center of contemporary culture."

He also visited the factory where workers assemble thousands of airline meals every day, watched air traffic controllers follow the path of planes on a giant map "like parents worrying about their children" and contemplated the poetry of a room-service menu at his airport hotel, where the roar of a plane taking off once prompted a waiter to shout, "God help us!"

De Botton, a Swiss-born writer who lives in London, chronicles his experiences in "A Week at the Airport," an elegantly slim and funny book recently released in the United States.

Virgin Releases IPad-Only Magazine Project

Virgin Releases IPad-only Magazine, Project

By David Dahlquist, Macworld

At a New York City press conference on Tuesday, Virgin CEO Richard Branson and his editorial team from customer engagement agency Seven Squared showed off Virgin's new digital publication for iPad, Project.

Branson bills the publication as the "first truly digital magazine for creative people, by creative people." Its editorial sections will focus on technology, entrepreneurs, design, and entertainment, and will profile influential people in these fields.

Branson noted that the focus of the magazine will be on people who are important to their fields, rather than on celebrities and big name stars. Though, with Jeff Bridges adorning the first issue's cover, it's clear they've made room for marquee names as well.

Project's editor in chief, Anthony Noguera, said he believes the iPad is "the most exciting thing to happen in generations" for media; he describes Project as "an agenda-setting magazine that spotlights the people who are changing the world in large and small ways."

During the press conference, Noguera gave a live demonstration of the app. The "cover" of the magazine closely resembles a print magazine, but from that point on, the differences quickly become apparent. The publication takes full advantage of the iPad's gesture-based controls, and was clearly designed to maximize reader interaction.

You can take a virtual tour through Tokyo, led by five prominent city residents; you can view high-resolution photos of the new Jaguar concept car--and even listen to the sound of its engine purring; touch a picture of Jeff Bridges, and watch him come to life. This is what the future of print media should look like.

Project will also make heavy use of crowdsourcing and user-generated content for its stories--a contest to develop next month's cover design is already underway.

By completely abandoning print media in favor of a digital medium, Project will be free of the constraints of typical magazines--an advantage Branson clearly plans to build on. All content can be custom-tailored to capitalize on the iPad's interactive abilities. Even the advertisements will be designed to be as engaging as possible--something entrepreneur Branson is especially excited about.

The Project app is free, but each month's issue will cost $3 as an in-app purchase. Unlike traditional magazines, however, the content of each issue will evolve throughout the month, with updates made on a regular basis. The first issue, featuring Tron: Legacy actor Jeff Bridges, is available now.

Three Great Writers Born on This Day

It's the birthday of Louisa May Alcott, born in Germantown, Pennsylvania (1832). She's the author of Little Women (1868), a book that over the last century has been adapted into numerous stage plays, an opera, a Broadway musical, several Japanese anime films, and about a dozen Hollywood movies — including movies starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, and Claire Danes.

And this 1868 children's book inspired the novel that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize: Geraldine Brooks's March (2005), which is a retelling of Little Women, this time narrated by the girls' absent father. And in 2008, a dual biography of Louisa May Alcott and her dad won the Pulitzer Prize for biography. That book: John Matteson's Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father (2007).

Little Women begins:

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
"It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.
"I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff.
"We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner.
The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words.

It's the birthday of the writer who said: "When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." That's C.S. Lewis, born in Belfast (1898), the author of the seven-volume children's series The Chronicles of Narnia, which begins with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), the story of four children sent away from London because of wartime air raids. He also said, "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

As a teenager, he went off to boarding school in England. He hated it there. He said that English accents sounded to him like the "voices of demons." Worst of all was the landscape; he first looked at it and in that moment, he said, "conceived a hatred for England which took many years to heal." Also, he felt that his favorite poet, W.B. Yeats, — "an author exactly after [his] own heart" — was totally underappreciated in England. He wrote to a friend: "Perhaps his appeal is purely Irish — if so, then thank the gods that I am Irish." But despite all his disdain and contempt for England, he chose to live and teach at Oxford University for almost 30 years — while acquainting himself with other Irish people living in England as much as possible.

Besides fairy tales and children's classics, he wrote theological books, including The Screwtape Letters (1942), a novel in which a demon writes to his nephew; and The Great Divorce (1945), where residents of hell take a bus ride to heaven, and Mere Christianity (1952), based on talks he gave on the BBC during World War II.

C.S. Lewis said, "Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."

From the archives:

It's the birthday Madeleine L'Engle, born in New York City (1918), who struggled to find any success as a writer with novels about ordinary families and ordinary situations. But after reading about the ideas of Albert Einstein, she wrote a science fiction novel called A Wrinkle in Time (1962), about a group of children who have to rescue their father from a planet where individuality has been outlawed. The book was rejected by 26 different publishers, who all felt that it was too difficult for children but too fantastic for adults. But when it came out in 1962, the novel won the Newbery Medal, and it sells about 15,000 copies a year.

Madeleine L'Engle said, "You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."

A Digital Newspaper for the iPad?

Website: Media magnate Murdoch preps digital newspaper for iPad

By Craig Johnson, Special to CNN

(CNN) -- Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is developing a digital newspaper exclusively for the iPad and other electronic tablet devices, according to the Women's Wear Daily website.

Murdoch, who has made no secret of his ambitions to charge internet users for news content, has assembled a team of journalists for the project, called "The Daily," and hopes to roll out a beta version around Christmas, WWD reported.

Available to the public in early 2011, the Daily would cost 99 cents a week, about $4.25 a month, and true to its name, publish seven days a week, according to WWD.

Murdoch and Apple CEO Steve Jobs have long been bullish on projections that the iPad, and devices like it, will soon evolve into the premiere content-reading device for the web.

Charging for news content has long been a challenge and philosophical crux for news organizations with large online presences such as News Corporation, which Murdoch owns. The Daily would focus on national issues and combine the features of a tabloid and broadsheet publication, WWD reported.

To show the seriousness of the project, Murdoch has enlisted top-tier talent from his media empire to run the show, according to WWD.

Jesse Angelo, former managing editor of The New York Post, will lead the effort, along with journalists culled from media outfits such as Page Six, AOL, ABC News and The New Yorker, WWD reported.

How Many Classics Have You Read?

Attention literary friends:

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. How do you measure up? A friend of mine just e-mailed that she’s read 56 of the 100.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas.
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

How Not to Get Published

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Agenda for Monday Night's City Council Meeting

WARSAW COMMON COUNCIL
November 15, 2010
7:00 PM
I. ORGANIZATION OF MEETING
1. Call to Order
2. Invocation
3. Pledge of Allegiance
4. Approval of Minutes for: November 1, 2010
II. RECOGNITION OF VISITORS
1. Terry White & Grace College Journalism students
III. REPORTS / ORAL & WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS
1. Fort Wayne Business Weekly articles:
• “OrthoWorx supports continued life sciences innovation in state”
• “Experience made Robertson the right choice as county’s
new development director”
• “Grace College starts grad program on orthopedic regulatory,
clinical affairs”
2. Fire Dept. - October Activity Report
3. Comcast Cable quarterly Franchise Fee
IV. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
V. NEW BUSINESS
1. Ordinance No. 2010-11-03: Aviation – Additional Appropriation
2. Ordinance No. 2010-11-04: Aviation – Transfer Funds
3. Resolution No. 2010-11-01: Amendment of Redevelopment Plan
Authorizing Notice of Public Hearing for an Additional Appropriation
4. Ordinance No. 2010-11-05: Additional Appropriation to pay for
Acquisition of Property by the Redevelopment Commission
5. Street Light Request at Scott & Smith Streets
VI. OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COUNCIL
VII. MEETING REVIEW
1. Items Carried Forward
2. Visitors’ Questions & Comments
VIII. ADJOURNMENT

Want to Earn Some Money . . .

. . . and get good journalism experience at the same time?

The Warsaw Times-Union is looking for correspondents to cover some of the outlying town boards, meetings, etc.

Here is a note the editor, Gary Gerard, sent me:


Did you notice the ad at the bottom of page one? Any of your students
interested? It pays $25 per meeting plus mileage. Correspondents cover
the meeting and e-mail me a story for the next day's edition. Great way
to get practical experience and clips.

Thanks,
Gary


Sure would be great if one or several of you could help meet his need, and get this good experience (and clippings) at the same time!

Contact Gary at:

Telephone
574.267.3111
Sports/News Fax - 574.267.7784
Advertising Fax - 574.268.1300

E-mails:
News - news@timesuniononline.com

IU Journalism Students Blog

Take a look at what some Indiana University journalism students are doing.

Blogs

Blogging has become an important addition to journalism, offering a way for journalists to share their "backstories," the nuts and bolts of how they go about the business of storytelling. Blogs also provide an outlet for journalists to reflect on the topics they cover, to analyze or interpret their experiences outside the practices of objective news writing.

Click here to see some of the student blogs.

Happy Birthday, 'Rolling Stone'

It was on this day, November 9, in 1967 that the first issue of Rolling Stone was published. It was started by 21-year-old Jann Wenner, who dropped out of Berkeley and borrowed $7,500 from family members and from people on a mailing list that he stole from a local radio station, and with that money he managed to put together a magazine.

The cover of the first issue featured John Lennon, and in it, Wenner wrote, "Rolling Stone is not just about music, but also about the things and attitudes that the music embraces."

Today Rolling Stone has a circulation of about 1.4 million.

Yet Another News Weekly Goes Down

US News & World Report to drop monthly print mag

The Associated Press

U.S. News & World Report magazine is going to stop sending its monthly print edition to subscribers next year and go mostly online.

Brian Kelly, the magazine's editor, outlined the changes in a memo sent to staff on Friday.

In the memo, Kelly said the December issue will be the last monthly issue sent to subscribers. Monthly print versions will continue to be available at newsstands, and it will continue to publish occasional guides on colleges, history, personal finance and other topics. Its content will continue to be available at USNews.com, which has 9 million visitors a month.

Kelly told The New York Times that the move won't result in more layoffs.

U.S. Media News Group president Bill Holiber said on the magazine's website that the decision "allows us to continue to grow our online business" and take advantage of new distribution platforms.

The company developed a U.S. News Weekly digital magazine last year that it is adapting for Apple Inc.'s iPad and other devices.

Hurt by declining print advertisements and readers' shift to the Web, U.S. News said in June 2008 it would become a biweekly magazine, instead of a weekly; six months later it decided to go monthly.

U.S. News was founded in 1933 and merged with World Report in 1948, and considered itself one of the nation's three major newsweekly magazines alongside Newsweek and Time.

Last month, The Washington Post Co. revealed how much it got for selling Newsweek, a once-prized asset it bought in 1961, to audio equipment magnate Sidney Harman: $1.

WORLD Magazine to Expand; Olasky to Oversee

WORLD Magazine Announces Expanded News Coverage, Development of Digital Platforms

Dr. Marvin Olasky to Oversee Expansion of WORLD's News Operations

ASHEVILLE, N.C.-WORLD Magazine's parent organization has announced a multi-year strategy to transform WORLD from a magazine with web-based delivery mechanisms into a comprehensive news organization that will move aggressively into the space vacated by retreating news organizations and onto new digital platforms.

"WORLD's readers have enabled us already to more than double our news-gathering capabilities in the past year or two," said Kevin Martin, CEO of God's World Publications (GWP), WORLD's parent. "But we need to expand both the breadth and the depth of our coverage to fill the news void with reporting from a Biblical worldview. And we need to be able to deliver our reporting and analysis in a lot of different ways, not just in a magazine."

WORLD's Publisher Nick Eicher has been leading the organization's transformation. Under Eicher's direction, WORLD is transitioning to a new content management system that will dramatically streamline the process of disseminating the news. Eicher is also leading the development of WORLD's digital apps.

And since January, Eicher has been producing WORLD's daily radio/audio newscast, "This is News." The spot is carried by radio stations around the country, and is heard in a podcast format by thousands of people every day.

The vastly expanded reach of WORLD's coverage and the new delivery platforms create new journalistic challenges. "We are no longer just producing content for a magazine that comes out every two weeks," Eicher said. "We are producing news on a daily--even on an hourly--basis. As we increase the development and delivery or our reporting, we need to re-think the ways we gather, write, fact-check, and edit the news."

That's where Dr. Marvin Olasky comes in. Under Olasky's leadership as editor-in-chief, WORLD has developed a robust cadre of Christian journalists who have significantly and steadily increased the quality of the content. "When Marvin joined WORLD, it was a good magazine. He helped make it great," Eicher said. "We want him to do that with our expanded offerings as well."

To that end, Olasky has resigned his post as Provost of The King's College and will devote 100 percent of his energies to the transformation of WORLD from a news magazine into a comprehensive news organization. Olasky will leave New York, where he has lived and worked for the past three years, and move to Asheville, North Carolina, GWP's headquarters.

According to Olasky: "New York is the most exciting city in the world, and it will be tough to leave. But journalism is in a state of transition, and that has created a historically unique opportunity for an organization like ours. Seizing this opportunity will require all of my attention. Living in Asheville will allow for better interaction with Kevin, Mindy (Belz, WORLD's Editor), and Joel (Belz, WORLD's Founder), along with the staff of GWP's other divisions."

Dr. Olasky will continue to organize and host the King's "Distinguished Visitors Series" that has generated for WORLD's readers many vital conversations with public figures. Also remaining at King's campus in New York City are the offices of the World Journalism Institute (WJI), GWP's journalism training division, led by Bob Case.

According to Martin, "The relationship between GWP and King's is not ending. It is simply maturing. We hope WJI and the Distinguished Visitors Series are merely first steps of collaboration with King's."


Olasky plans to remain as Provost at King's until January 31, 2011. He already has begun the transition to Asheville.


WORLD magazine is the nation's most widelyread Christian news magazine. WORLD maintains staff writers in Washington, New York, and other key U.S. cities, and has a network of correspondents around the world.

Shelter Meeting Cancelled--Media Uninvited

From Thursday's Times-Union:

Homeless Shelter Meeting Canceled After Media Interest

Jennifer Peryam
Times-Union Staff Writer

A meeting that was scheduled Wednesday night for downtown merchants to ask questions about a proposed homeless shelter in downtown Warsaw was canceled.

The Times-Union was originally invited to attend the meeting but was informed at approximately 4 p.m. that the meeting was closed to the media.

A sign was posted Wednesday night on the building where the shelter is proposed to be located at 110 E. Market St., the former Brennan Building. The building is next to Kosciusko County Community Foundation.

The sign read "The meeting has been canceled. Sorry for inconvenience, Fellowship Mission."

Signs also were posted on the doors of the Kosciusko County Community Foundation where the meeting was to be held from 7 to 8 p.m.

A sign read "A private meeting between downtown merchants and business owners and Fellowship Mission will take place from 7 to 8 p.m. Doors open at 6:45. No media please."

Another sign also read "Tonight's private meeting between downtown merchants and business owners and Fellowship Mission has been canceled."

During Monday night's Warsaw City Council meeting, more than 80 people packed into council chambers - with additional people outside - to hear a homeless shelter presentation by Eric Lane, Fellowship Mission director.

Attendees were not allowed to ask questions, as it was a time for Lane to speak about the shelter.

Warsaw Mayor Ernie Wiggins asked Warsaw Community Development Corp. to organize a meeting between downtown merchants and Fellowship Mission so downtown merchants could learn more about the proposed shelter.

The Times-Union was contacted Tuesday afternoon by Lane who said a meeting was scheduled between downtown merchants and Fellowship Mission. He also said the Times-Union was invited to attend the meeting and report on it, and the newspaper agreed to run a story previewing the meeting.

Lane called the Times-Union three hours before the meeting Wednesday night stating the meeting was closed to the media.

The Times-Union called Cindy Dobbins, WCDC director, Wednesday afternoon. She said a television station had been notified and a film crew was in town. She said the meeting would be canceled because downtown business merchants did not want to go on camera during the meeting.

Approximately 10 downtown business owners showed up Wednesday night to find the meeting canceled.

George Brennan, president and CEO of Lake City Group, 118 A S. Buffalo St., located a half block west of where the proposed homeless shelter may be, said he came to the meeting to learn more about the shelter.

Brennan said he has no ties to the former Brennan Building where the shelter is being proposed.

"I think the shelter is a great idea and I wanted to hear about it. I think we have a responsibility to take care of the people of the community," Brennan said. "I can't imagine why anyone would be upset by having the shelter here."

Brennan said if people have concerns they should speak up, and he said he didn't know why the meeting was canceled and the media was not allowed to attend.

"I think the media should be here because if the issues are going to be discussed, the media should let the rest of the general population who are not able to attend know what is going on," Brennan said.

Mike Bergen, Alderfer Bergen & Co. partner, 116 W. Market St., said he came to the meeting to learn more about the shelter.

"I'm disappointed to not hear what the story is. I don't know what is going on and I don't have an opinion until I have more info," Bergen said.

Bree Oscallahan, employee of Take Action Tattoo, 938 N. Detroit St., said she came to the meeting to hear what the proposed shelter plans were.

Oscallahan said she is a coach for a local roller derby league, and they have started collecting items for the homeless.

"People need items who are homeless whether a shelter goes here or not," Oscallahan said.

Did NPR Commit Suicide With Williams Decision?

From Investors.com:

NPR's Suicide?

Media: Did National Public Radio jump the shark? Just hours after sacking Juan Williams for making sensible but allegedly insensitive remarks on Fox, the federally funded outfit has brought itself under painful scrutiny.

Williams no doubt has been riding an emotional roller coaster, both smarting from NPR's patently unjust action and reveling in a new $2 million-plus contract with the Fox News Channel. For the rest of us who are concerned with restoring integrity to the news business, there's good news in this.

For one, NPR was condemned across the spectrum — at least to the far fringes of the left, where the George Soros-funded Media Matters now wants similar action to be taken against Mara Liasson, the other NPR journalist who regularly moonlights on Fox.

There's also good news in the recovery by many traditional liberals of their commitment to fairness and free speech for which they were known before political correctness set in many years ago.

Even the Washington Post — where early in his career Williams worked as a reporter — was so outraged that it defended its former writer in a lead editorial.

NPR's reflexive intolerance also occasioned a revisiting of the left-leaning organization's many past sins.

Exhibit A: the record of "correspondent" Nina Totenberg, who, on one of those soporific shows from "inside Washington" on yet another network, also doubles as a panelist.

Whereas Williams thoughtfully explained the frisson he shares with millions of Americans when boarding airplanes alongside passengers in Muslim garb, Totenberg grotesquely wished AIDS by transfusion on the late senator Jesse Helms and his grandchildren.

So when does she get the ax?

The boiling indignation now moves to Capitol Hill, where congressional Republicans and likely a few Democrats will put NPR on the squirm seat. There it will have to explain why it shouldn't be defunded — which would be a good thing.

Just months ago the Federal Trade Commission, feeling the Oba-maite impulse to nationalize, prepared a report on how the government could "save journalism" by subsidizing various news outlets and pumping up public broadcast outlets.

Alarmingly, the plan was well received by some media "leaders" who once prized their independence. NPR stood to gain by the blueprint, which resembled authoritarian media practices from Ceaucescu's Romania to Chavez's Venezuela.

By sacking Juan Williams, NPR may inadvertently have brought that plan to a screeching and welcome halt.

Sports Story Sample

Here is a pretty good sample of a sports coverage article to study as we prepare to write sports stories--it's from the Tuesday, November 2 Times-Union. Note the use of language particular to the sport (such as "perimeter players," "charity stripe," etc.). Note the structure of the story, including the way quotes are handled. Good example.

Grace Men Open Season With Win

Dale Hubler
Times-Union Sports Editor

WINONA LAKE - Grace College's perimeter players didn't shoot the ball particularly well in Monday night's season opener against the Andrews University Cardinals.

The frontcourt duo of junior Duke Johnson and freshman Greg Miller certainly made up for it, however, as the NAIA Division II 17th-ranked Lancers beat the Cardinals 72-53 in men's basketball action at the Orthopaedic Capital Center.

On a night the Lancers were just 2 of 15 from three-point range, the 6-foot-11 Johnson and 6-6 Miller were a dominant force in the paint, combining for 48 points on 21-of-25 shooting.

"We went to them and they responded," 34th-year Grace College coach Jim Kessler said of Johnson and Miller. "That's what they need to do. We didn't shoot the ball well tonight, but Duke and Greg were very productive inside."

Against an Andrews University team that had just one player as tall as 6-5, the Lancers scored 54 points in the paint and outrebounded the Cardinals 44-23.

Johnson scored Grace's first 12 points and finished the game with 30 points and 16 rebounds, while Miller came off the bench to add 18 points and six rebounds.

"Eighteen points and six rebounds in his first game as a freshman, and to do it in 20 minutes, that's pretty good production," Kessler said of Miller, a highly-touted player who came to Grace as North Miami High School's all-time leading scorer.

Johnson and Miller were the only double-digit scorers for the Lancers, who were 31 of 60 from the field.

Junior Jacob Peattie scored seven points off the bench, while sophomore Bruce Grimm Jr., and junior Dayton Merrell scored five points each.

Grimm, who started five games last season for Division I program East Tennessee State, dished out a team-high six assists and made two steals.

"It was our first game, we sputtered at times," said Kessler. "We lacked the continuity that I think we'll see. It'll find itself as the season plays out. We found some things we need to work on."

Grace was just 8 of 16 at the free throw line and committed 21 turnovers.

Behind 30 first-half points from Johnson and Miller, the Lancers led 38-31 at the intermission.

The Cardinals closed the gap to two, 41-39, with 18:02 remaining in the game, but Grace went on a 25-9 run that put the finishing touches on the win.

With Grace up 52-42, Miller made a steal and dished it to sophomore guard Elliot Smith for an easy layup. Two minutes later, Peattie made a steal and turned it into a two-handed dunk.

Defensively, Grace made 12 steals in the game and held the Cardinals to just 22 points in the second half.

Andrews University finished the game 23 of 58 (40 percent) from the field, 6 of 23 from three-point range, and 1 of 2 from the charity stripe.

After shooting 56 percent from the field in the first half, the Cardinals shot just 27 percent in the second half.

"They're a scrappy team," Kessler said of the Cardinals. "They shot well, especially in the first half. I thought we were able to do some things defensively in the second half. We held them to 22 points in the second half, that's pretty good."

Ryan Little led Andrews University with 17 points, while Matthew Little added 15 points. Thomas Jardine and Ben Weakley chipped in with seven and six points, respectively.

The Lancers are in action again Saturday when they host Ohio-Eastern University for Homecoming.

The women's game is scheduled for 1 p.m., followed by the men's game at approximately 3 p.m.

GRACE COLLEGE 72, ANDREWS UNIVERSITY 53

AU 31 22 - 53

GC 38 34 - 72

Andrews - Jerome Murray 1-6 1-1 3, Matthew Little 7-15 0-1 15, Ryan Little 7-12 0-0 17, Tyler Wooldridge 2-7 0-0 5, Thomas Jardine 3-8 0-0 7, Joshua Faehner 0-2 0-0 0, Brandon Garrett 0-1 0-0 0, Ronaldo Green 0-1 0-0 0, Chris Goulding 0-0 0-0 0, Clifford Allen 0-0 0-0 0, Ben Weakley 3-5 0-0 6, Jason Garrett 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 23-58 1-2 53.

Grace - Dayton Merrell 2-3 0-0 5, Tannan Peters 0-5 0-0 0, Duke Johnson 13-16 4-4 30, Elliot Smith 0-4 0-0 0, Bruce Grimm Jr. 2-10 1-6 5, Lee Ross 0-1 0-0 0, Michael Humphrey 0-0 0-0 0, Taylor Long 0-0 0-0 0, David Henry 1-4 0-0 2, Jacob Peattie 3-5 1-2 7, Benjamin Euler 1-2 0-0 3, Greg Miller 8-9 2-4 18, Jared Treadway 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 31-60 8-16 72.

Three-point goals - Andrews 6 (R. Little 3, M. Little, Wooldridge, Jardine), Grace 2 (Merrell, Euler). Rebounds - Andrews 23 (Jardine 4), Grace 44 (Johnson 16). Assists - Andrews 18 (R. Little 7), Grace 18 (Grimm 6), Turnovers - Andrews 22, Grace 21. Fouls - Andrews 12, Grace 12. Fouled out - none. Records: Andrews 1-1, Grace 1-0