Friday, May 26, 2006

well. friday before mem day.

busy busy day yesterday. besides hooking up with the radio workshop folks and party-ing.
i went to ABC News Radio orientation. Their first admonition. don't blog. hmmmm


other wise. just sent email out to summer students/ pt'ers etc... 153 names. plus jessica is putting together some fun things on her own mostly for masters. glad to see folks having fun.

back to the radio lab....

well. friday before mem day.

busy busy day yesterday. besides hooking up with the radio workshop folks and party-ing.
i went to ABC News Radio orientation. Their first admonition. don't blog. hmmmm


other wise. just sent email out to summer students/ pt'ers etc... 153 names. plus jessica is putting together some fun things on her own mostly for masters. glad to see folks having fun.

back to the radio lab....

well. friday before mem day.

busy busy day yesterday. besides hooking up with the radio workshop folks and party-ing.
i went to ABC News Radio orientation. Their first admonition. don't blog. hmmmm


other wise. just sent email out to summer students/ pt'ers etc... 153 names. plus jessica is putting together some fun things on her own mostly for masters. glad to see folks having fun.

back to the radio lab....

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

First night of summer semester

first class with david blum. Only a few of us in the cozy 709c conference room for Narrative writing.. but it promises to be a good class DB comes highly recomended and we started out by reading The Cat in the Hat and two other kids classics. I must admit here, that I had only seen the movie of The Cat.

good class folk nice to me other Pt-ers.. Inson/Alex from the :hidden: January class, and Fred from Jan. 05. also Julia(?) who JUST started.

more later

Today's NY Sunhttp://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=33272 put Diane's Sawyer's predicament as as odd (wo)man out in the network news shuffle.

I formerly worked for the Viacom/MTV (pre-CBS break-up), and I always used to scoff at how these rumors/negotiations make the papers. The word is Diane Sawuer got Artie Indursky of Grubman, Indursky ( a prominent entertainment firm.. and alan Grubman is father to the lead-footed publicist) I wonder what Diane will want/get from this if anything, and when David Westin, head of ABC news gets the ax for the gaffes of the past year.

Back to j-school, apparently some of the new Aug. folks are connecting via web already, as per an email from Sree. Love to see it. I welcome all on this blog, and I welcome whatever direction this blog takes.. whether discussing school the news, the crappy vending machines on the fifth floor or whatever. I wish i didn't have to add folks. but I think i might with this fora
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With a fond farewell to this year's graduating class ( just one week ago, sob), I thought I would start off a new blog for the next year's graduating class...and others who are just starting, have been here for a while...which includes me!

With buzzwords like "convergence" and "new media" blipping onto the j-school radar screen with increasing frequencies, it figures we should have a more active web presence.

Not sure if this will be it or if something else comes along, but witht the Success of Sree's DOS blog, there should be a corresponding student blog.

With luck this place is a source for gripes, gropes, praise, beat questions, source sourcing, a craigslist for apts. or old minidiscs, or just whatever.. or if not this place another one.

The summer is bit odd at j-school , sure 30-odd students just started last Friday, , plus there are the remaining Part-timers like myself who started previously, 15 or so in January, another 30 or so from exactly one year ago (like me!), and then the previous Januaries and summers. It seems we have the quiet little building to ourselves,....and then the onslaught in August of the rest of the class..

Summer is also odd, in that many of us our doing Masters this summer, further decreasing the on-campus presence, plus the building is forever going through transformations, and is also used for various other events etc.
But despite all of that we are all still in J-school, and it all goes on, and we can look to each other for shared experience and maybe someone to get a drink with
(all this seems like ANOTHER patented D.L. Ressel commentary---a joke for my radio workshop folks.... yes after an intial fear of commentaries, i turned into a total softy and began writing them weekly on everything....i am the soft news king now)

ok that my first post.

well let's wrap up this first post with an apt. link.

This past Saturday's WSJ opinion journal had a notable piece on the J-Schools and the connection with academia. In light of my current internment at a pure all-out Journalism school, My pull quote"If America's universities were providing students with adequate academic instruction, instead of pumping out degrees in pseudosubjects like "communications," then J-schools wouldn't need to adapt at all. They could simply shut down. "

the link:http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110008400