My good friend Eryk Salvaggio has been blogging about the ex-pat life in Japan for the past two years. The Japan Times caught up with him, and this awesome interview is the result. Read the interview, and read Eryk’s Blog, This Japanese Life.
– Journalist Dan Rather in a radio interview with NPR member station KETR. (via ericathas)
When will we be done with the whole “Twitter is stupid because no one cares what I ate for lunch” line? Social media has more than proven itself.
| Me: | "So, how many employees were laid off when you guys left town?" |
| PR lady: | "We lost 8 percent of our total workforce when that location closed, but we were able to find jobs elsewhere for 39 percent of those laid off." |
| Me: | "Ummm ... what's that in integers? " |
| PR lady: | "We dont' disclose that information." |
| Me: | "OK, well is your company profitable?" |
| PR Lady: | "We grow every year." |
| Me: | "OK, but are you profitable?" |
| PR Lady: | "We service dozens of Fortune 5,000 companies." [yes, that's three zeroes] |
| Me, giving up: | "Thanks for your time." |
“The site may also test a new principle of online journalism, that transparency is the new objectivity. The notion is that journalists ought to stop pretending to be thoughtless, emotionless repeaters of attributed information, and instead act as real people who explain where they are coming from.”
I wholeheartedly support this idea, and agree that 20th century ‘objectivity,’ such as it ever existed, is and should be dead.
| Me: | Hey, police beat in South Portland is going to be much longer than usual. |
| Paginator: | Yeah, I've been waiting for summer to start over there. |
The Mama Grizzly says it’s our words that are dangerous, not hers.
