Cat in the leafy twilight (Taken with instagram)
"Am I going to give up following the NFL? Am I going to give up listening to music and going out and seeing it? Am I going to give up riding my bike? Or am I going to cut back on some of these digital habits I have that are eating me alive and some of these … endless panels about the future of journalism. The future of journalism is wearing badges and talking on panels, as far as I can tell."
— On today’s Fresh Air, journalist David Carr talks about how social media has changed his productivity. (via nprfreshair)
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A little lunch time entertainment from your friends at Medill News Service and the 1990s.
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The most exciting thing to ever happen in Ohio?
SWAT facility break-in, an amazing and haunting tale
Wow. A shocking story from the LA Times: nearly three dozen submachine guns and small firearms stolen from a SWAT facility. Well at least the weapons were converted to fire blanks. That’s a good thing, right?
The obvious concern is that whoever stole the weapons will convert them from firing blanks to using live ammunition. Downing acknowledged that was “definitely a possibility” but said that to do so would require an understanding of the inner workings of the weapons.
Gun experts and online tutorials suggest, however, that the process is relatively simple and requires only a few parts. The company that manufactures the conversion kits used by the LAPD has an instructional video on its website that walks a viewer through the steps of returning an MP-5 to its original form in about five minutes.
Nevermind…
This is not helpful.
30 Rock actor Alec Baldwin will host Here’s the Thing, an interview show via podcast, starting Oct. 24 for WNYC in New York City, the Associated Press reports. Guests will include big names such as actor Michael Douglas, Republican campaign strategist Ed Rollins, reality-show celeb Kris Kardashian Jenner, comic Chris Rock, actress Kathleen Turner, author Erica Jong and veteran talk-show host Dick Cavett.
Baldwin has subbed for host Kurt Andersen, and supplied some pretty funny pledge pitches to stations. But he was interested in doing more, said Dean Cappello, WNYC’s chief content officer. “Alec is one of our hometown guys,” he said.Oooh. If ever I have been excited about an upcoming podcast, it is now.
