Kid Rock has some growing up to do if he plans to be a politician.
“You guys wrote a f****ed up story and allowed it to be published. You want a quote, there it is,” — Kirt Webster, Kid Rock publicist
Changes at Wirecutter
I hope the New York Times doesn’t screw up one of my favorite sites.
Hurricane Irma
Most popular news sources on Facebook
Turns out, a lot of real news is being read on Facebook.
No one does it alone
From StoryCorps and NPR:
“As soon as we got into the school, the principal was calling the roll. He said, ‘Bill Weaver,’ and I said, ‘My name is William.’ And he said, ‘Oh, you’re a smart N-word.’ I’d been in school maybe 30 minutes and he suspended me,” Weaver, 67, says, while recounting his first day at school during a recent visit to StoryCorps.
Weaver, who is now the chief of surgery at Fayetteville VA Medical Center in North Carolina, says he doesn’t remember a day that a teacher didn’t tell him that he “didn’t belong.”
Journalism training opportunity in Knoxville in October
From the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters president Whit Adamson:
The Poynter Institute’s Al Tompkins will be conducting an Electronic Journalism Seminar for radio and television on Saturday, October 7 in Knoxville. Time and location TBA.
The program will include sessions on “Telling the Story”, “Cool Tools of the Trade”, and “Critical Thinking in Today’s World”. King & Ballow’s Doug Pierce will be on the program to discuss today’s social media liability and the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government’s (TCOG) Deborah Fisher will tell us the latest changes in government transparencies.