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McClatchy Newspapers ------ Twice in recent weeks big news outfits embarrassed themselves when affiliated Internet operations ignored basic principles of journalistic practice. What's apparent is that although legacy media may regard their Web sites as domesticated showcases for traditional work, heeding the same rules, the Internet is no petting zoo. It's a wilderness, and the wildlife has free-ranging ideas of their own about what they should be doing.
What are you afraid of? That question was recently posed to a group discussing the current presidential campaign. Answers were all over the lot, depending upon each person's own political persuasion. Some listed frightening things they thought Barack Obama might do if elected. Others listed just as many terrible things if John McCain got elected. People have a lot of things to fear these days, as always.
Special to the Ledger-Enquirer ------ (Second of two parts) Tith autumn comes the revival of fervor unlike any other: the spirit and passion of college football. Every fourth autumn, this frenzy for touchdowns and tackles is paired with a more civic-oriented activity: national elections.
I was born in 1940 in a small middle Georgia town. Since that time, I have lived through one world war, the Korean war, Vietnam war and the Cold war, to name a few. My great-grandfather fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. My own military career began after the close of the Koran conflict and at the beginning of the Cold War and the Vietnam war. I joined the U.S. Army in 1957 and received my discharge in 1965.
One of my checks was returned marked "insufficient funds." In view of current developments in the banking market, does that refer to me or to you?
On a night close enough to the end of October and chilly enough to be considered winter’s front porch, I sat outside — dutifully, if stupidly — and watched the final act of summer.
It's been 12 years since there were physical education classes in all Muscogee County School District elementary schools. That 12-year span amounts to about half the time it's taken children and young people in the U.S. to get dangerously out of shape.
