May 2012
19 posts
"Structure is the hardest part of storytelling"
From an interview between Joss Whedon and Andrew O”Hehir of Salon.com. Whedon is talking about his recent meta-horror movie, Cabin in the Woods:
… The plot is something I presented to Drew as “I think I found the movie that we could actually sit down and write in a weekend,” because it has a third act. It starts one way then takes you another way and just when you think you know where...
Your bad bug of the day: Legionnaires' disease via... →
27 May 2012 Last updated at 20:40 ET
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By Eleanor BradfordBBC Scotland Health Correspondent
Gardeners are being warned to wash their hands after using compost following a series of Legionella cases in Scotland over the past five years.
One man has died and five others have become ill after contracting a rare strain called Legionella...
V. impressed at this argument against ag... →
Baptist Press - FIRST-PERSON: Antibiotics & our future - News with a Christian Perspective
Steve Willis
Posted on May 16, 2012
Steve Willis is lead pastor of First Baptist Church in Kenova, W.Va., and author of “Winning the Food Fight” (Regal 2012).
…I never would have thought our nation’s problems with overeating and antibiotics are interrelated. Nearly half of all...
If true, awful: MD Animal control lured pets off... →
press release:
BETHESDA, MD— Alley Cat Allies, the only national advocacy organization dedicated to the protection and humane treatment of cats, today condemned Animal Control of Worcester County, Md. after news reports that the agency had trapped and killed pet cats without keeping the cats for the required 10-day holding period or determining whether the cats had owners. West Ocean City...
Oh, Canada: British Columbia proposes an "ag gag"... →
Inside Edge by Ethan Baron, May 22, 2012
B.C.’s Liberal government is poised to further choke off the flow of public information, this time with respect to disease outbreaks. The Animal Health Act, expected to be passed into law by month’s end, expressly over-rides B.C.’s Freedom of Information Act, duct-taping shut the mouths of any citizens - or journalists - who would...
“Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of...”
– never noticed this before, but brava @LaurenGoode for her extensive ethics statement, prominently linked under her byline at AllThingsD
Possible criminal charges against DeCoster (Wright... →
By RYAN J. FOLEY, The Associated Press Posted May 16, 2012, at 5:35 p.m.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Lawyers representing a disgraced egg industry magnate, his son and one of their company’s financial officers say their clients are potential targets of a criminal investigation into the 2010 salmonella outbreak that sickened thousands of Americans and led to a massive recall of their products.
In recent...
V. smart commentary on H5N1/NSABB controversy from... →
…journalists’ sources of knowledge are what they see, what they read and what they are told. We have no special channels. The debate over how to publish these two papers illustrates what happens when two of these sources are missing. We had no events to observe and as long as the papers remained secret we could not read them. What we were left with is what people had told us.
In my...
“Bespoke” is becoming downright ordinary. “Fewer and fewer people are asking what...”
– @Boholawyer schools you:
First Dunkin’ Donuts co-opts the word Artisan and now everybody wants a bit of bespoke.
As an attorney, and as a fan of the English language, I must respectfully ask you all to stop appropriating pretty sounding words and using them incorrectly for your own entreprenurial...
Journos should read this CJR piece on the need to...
“I think that the journalism community in the US, and to some degree elsewhere, is just beginning to grasp the fact that they need to protect their information and, by extension, their sources,” said Frank Smyth, who is the senior adviser for journalist security at the Committee to Protect Journalists and also runs a private company, Global Journalist Security. “It’s just too easy to get in and...
From the excellent EditorRealTalk Tumblr, which...
editorrealtalk:
WHEN ALL OF THE IMPORTANT NATIONAL MAG AWARDS GO TO WHITE DUDES
Second must-read of the week: Astonishing,... →
The killing agency: Wildlife Services’ brutal methods leave a trail of animal death
By Tom Knudson tknudson@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Apr. 29, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1A
The day began with a drive across the desert, checking the snares he had placed in the sagebrush to catch coyotes. Gary Strader, an employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, stepped out of his truck near a...
The must-read I missed last week: Big Reuters... →
Special Report: How Washington went soft on childhood obesity
By Duff Wilson and Janet Roberts Washington, D.C. | Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:03am EDT (Reuters) -
In the political arena, one side is winning the war on child obesity.
The side with the fattest wallets.
After aggressive lobbying, Congress declared pizza a vegetable to protect it from a nutritional overhaul of the school lunch...
