Posted in General, Media, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati on Jun 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Part of my rants and hopes before attending a journalism summit at the University of Massachusetts later this week:
It's time for professional journalists to snip away the trappings of elitism and define exactly what makes us important.
We're long past the day when a large company was needed to buy a press. Long past the day […]
Posted in New Orleans, Signs of the Apocalypse, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane, Crime & Terror on Jun 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Meanwhile, early Saturday, New Orleans awoke to the sound of a gun-battle, an ambush and execution that left five teen-agers dead in a "gruesome" manner that shook veteran police officers.
This quintuple slaughter, the worst single violent episode in possibly several decades, is the latest wave in a murder rate that has soared since April. Before […]
Posted in New Orleans, Weather, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane on Jun 19th, 2006 No Comments »
It's official: hurricane season 2006 is upon us. It was less than two weeks old when Tropical Storm Alberto meandered into the Gulf of Mexico.
Time has run out, and there is little sense in any quarter that New Orleans is any more prepared - any more "fixed" - to deal with a major storm than it […]