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Samuels scores 29, Villanova beats No. 10 Marquette 67-61
1 year 10 months 2 weeks ago Wednesday, February 27 2019 Feb 27, 2019 February 27, 2019 9:55 PM February 27, 2019 in Sports - AP - National
By DAN GELSTON
AP Sports Writer
VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) - Jermaine Samuels scored a career-high 29 points and defending national champion Villanova snapped a three-game losing streak with a 67-61 win over No. 10 Marquette on Wednesday night.
Saddiq Bey hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 2:31 left to help the Wildcats (21-8, 12-4 Big East) keep their hopes alive for a conference title with a needed win in their final game of the season at their on-campus arena. Villanova won its first 10 Big East games and appeared headed to a No. 1 seed in the league tournament next month until it hit the skids on the road - losses to St. John's, Georgetown and Xavier that opened the door for Marquette.
The Golden Eagles (23-5, 12-3) pounced and would have secured both a share of the Big East title and the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament with a victory Thursday.
But who would have counted on Samuels to spoil Marquette's run?
Samuels was averaging only 4.1 points per game this season - and that included a 15-point game with three 3-pointers in a win against Temple in early December. Samuels, a 6-foot-7, 220-pound sophomore forward, hit only seven more 3s over that span and was scoreless in each of his last three games. Left open against the Golden Eagles, Samuels hit five 3s and shot 10 of 19 overall from the floor. He hit two 3s in the first half and shot 6 of 12 overall for 15 points to give Villanova a 32-28 lead.
He buried a tying 3 in the second half that made it 48-all and converted a three-point play that made it 51-all.
The reason for all the ties? Markus Howard, who scored 25 points, reached 1,000 points in his career and proved again why he's the top Big East player of the year candidate. Howard nailed a pair of go-ahead 3s in the second half and scored 13 of Marquette's first 23 points in the period. Howard was whistled for his fourth foul at 9:28 in the second half and went to the bench, slowing Marquette's roll.
With Howard out, the five-point favorite Wildcats did just enough to stay in the Big East race. Bey made the decisive 3 for a 61-60 lead and Phil Booth, the two-time national champ, hit a pair of free throws with 1:30 left to keep it a three-point game. Samuels sealed it with two from the line with 11.1 seconds left that had fans going wild on senior night.
Marquette beat Villanova 66-65 at home this month but has not defeated the Wildcats in consecutive games since sweeping the season series in 2011-12.
With two regular-season games remaining, Villanova needs Marquette to drop at least one of its final three to have a shot at the Big East title.
Marquette plays next Wednesday at home against Creighton
Villanova hosts Butler on Saturday at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center.
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Weekend Update of the Dead or "What do we want?" "Brains!" "When do we want them?" "Brains!"
I love Madison.
In the years I've lived here, I've seen everything from gay rights marches to white supremacy rallies, from Michael Moore and Al Franken to Tim Michels and "Four more years!" "Free Kevin!" "Free Mumia!" "Free Tibet with purchase of lesser or equal value!"
Last year's robot protest was pretty bizzare, but I think Saturday's zombie rights march has them beat.
On Saturday I joined fuzzyinthehead and agaysexicon on State Street for the Zombie Lurch, and it was quite a surreal experience to see the Living Impaired make their way from the Capitol to the University Mall. The participants came from all walks of life -- mostly college students, but families, children and middle-aged couples all showed up in support of Zomb-Aid and Proposition I8-U, bearing signs with slogans like "Undead and proud!", "Another pro-brainz zombie that votes", and "ARGH." There were also normal people carrying signs like "Proud parent of a zombie teen," and counter-protestors with their "Stop eating us!" signs. You can find pictures and more detailed accounts of the Zombie Lurch here.
I saw plenty of people I know but didn't want to talk to (primarily Dave and Jenn of Dave and Jenn fame). jinxedkisses and r3507 were there and I would like to have said hello, but given the circumstances, I didn't. After the zombies had passed, Liz, Nick and I went to Chin's, where defaultlisa and her boyfriend Michael (both zombies now, apparently) harrassed us through the window.
After the Lurch, we picked up nocturne152 and went back to Liz and Nick's place where Liz made wassail. angelic667 showed up, and I was introduced to SolarQuest (better known as Monopoly in Space), which I was doing really well at until Nick convinced me that I needed to buy some fuel stations.
The plan for the evening had been to watch zombie movies, and I went so far as to bring Plan 9 from Outer Space (a bad zombie movie), Ed & His Dead Mother (not really a zombie movie), Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead (good zombie movies), but instead we watched Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (not a zombie movie at all). It was entertaining, but it also exemplifies why TV shows don't translate well into movies. The Family Guy makes an incredibly funny, tight half-hour of television, but stretched out it sort of plods along. That's not to say that Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story is without merit. I mean, I'd recommend it to other family guy fans, but there's not enough good material to justify 81 minutes, and not enough superfluous material to trim it down to a single episode. It's designed to be chopped into thirds and broadcast, and it might play better that way.
We also watched Shaun of the Dead. koriandrkitten and Phil (who also has a livejournal but I'm too lazy to look it up) also came over, and we rounded out the night with Evil Dead and Clue, after which we were all movied out.
Anyway, I talked about Saturday first because I wanted to focus on the Zombie Lurch. Let's go back to Friday.
On Friday night, Ellen and I went to the Mill Street Inn & Pub (where offBeat sings) to check out their food since I had gift certificates which were expiring at the end of the month. Not bad, and certainly more pleasant than the usual Olive Garden/Applebee's/Pedro's sort of atmosphere. The seating wait wasn't long, but Friday must be their busiest night. I don't imagine that there are a lot of dining destinations in Cambridge.
After dinner we went to see Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which I think we would both heavily recommend to anybody who's curious. It's incredibly entertaining, a little more adult in a way that kids won't catch, and it's a lot of fun. I was very glad to see that the jump from thirty minutes to eighty five worked better than, well, The Family Guy. Wallace & Gromit shares little in common with other well-transitioned short subjects like Beavis and Butthead Do America and South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, but in all three cases the flavor and nuances of the source material remain in the forefront. With Wallace and Gromit, it's as if the execs from Dreamworks read the script, looked at Aardman Animation's credentials, shrugged, and signed off on the project with a hearty "you folks seem to know what you're doing -- call us if you need the rights to any music."
Anyway, you'd like it. Go see it if you haven't.
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Americans have always placed great faith in the rule of law. Today it may be too much. As the volume and complexity of legislation grows, as more behavior is criminalized and jails overfill, as the cost of litigation mounts and jury verdicts skyrocket, legal gridlock becomes a real prospect.
Public interest in the law is clearly growing. But the highly selective, frequently aberrant snapshots the public gets via the media often obscure what is really happening. Legal Gridlock examines the American legal system from top to bottom and suggests what is wrong and what might be changed to prevent cost and delay from strangling social and commercial progress. It critiques our system from a variety of perspectives, including: the form and function of government (originally designed in reaction to a remote and insensitive monarch); the proper role of courts and alternatives thereto; and the problems of law enforcement, legal training, and the legal profession.
Incessantly resorting to law to resolve all uncertainty and right every conceivable wrong is a recipe for gridlock. Too much law is as bad as too little. Other civilized nations get by with far less law than we do, and yet they are safe and secure. Are we worshipping a false god? Our expectations simply exceed reality. There is a limit to the rule of law.
Legal Gridlock is balanced and non-technical. It is meant for the average reader who is concerned about the direction in which our legal and political system is headed. It warns of a serious crisis facing America.
"The book is quite easy to read, makes complex subjects simple, and raises a lot of important issues. This book deals in realities, not myths, about the limits of our government, the rule of law and the legal profession and addresses how the law works and how it doesn't always work very well. Expect to learn something new, or at least a new nuance, from every chapter in this book." — Theodore Collins, Of Counsel, Perkins Coie; former General Counsel, The Boeing Company; Fellow, American Bar Foundation.


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The concept of crowdfunding sites is reversed and related to problems. The users do not submit completed projects for financing on the online platform, but describe problems and wishes that they would like to have solved: As described on crowdfunding pages projects, problems are described here (problemfunding).
People who also would an introduced problem to be solved can invest in a possible problem solution. They invest in problem-solving and then choose problem solvers in their problem community by votings (Invoters): invite (friends for problem-solving) – invote – invent (customized solution).
The Invoters get the problem-solution (product / service) first and cheaper, at the level where they invested in the problem. Specifically, the Invoters get a self-determined, tailor-made problem solution.
The problem relevance of a set problem is determined by the community by means of invests in the possible problem solution. The sum in the solution pool reflects the urgency and importance of a problem in time (problem prices based on stock prices).
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The potential problem solver introduces himself and his solution concept in the internal area of the platform to the respective problem community.
The problem community can then vote on the concept in the closed area of the web platform. Says a concept to the Invoters, a deal is made.
There can be several coordination rounds: Close exchange of problem community and solver so that the customer is not "bypassed".
Only when a deal has been made does the money flow from the problem community to the problem solver, and certain milestone payments can be negotiated. If no deal is made, no money flows.
sonapse brings problem and solution together as easy as possible, helps with problem setting, exchange, payment processing.
If the deal is successful, sonapse will receive 5% commission of the deal sum.
Giving people the opportunity to make their real needs visible and to be able to solve them independently – to give the problem (desire) a platform and solve it like the human brain through clever networking.
sonapse = solution + synapse : Solution through networking.
A possible solver, such as door2door, sees the need here and offers itself as a problem solver.
sonapse has the solution for you!
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Сімоне Шилдер (; нар. 7 квітня 1967) — колишня нідерландська тенісистка.
Найвищу одиночну позицію світового рейтингу — 164 місце досягла 4 липня 1988, парну — 71 місце — 14 серпня 1989 року.
Здобула 2 одиночні та 8 парних титулів туру ITF.

Фінали WTA

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Thanks to all of my listeners! Merry Christmas!!


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A Belt and Pulley combination is a method of transferring power between a Drive Unit and Driven Unit. Example Motor and Gearbox where the ratio maybe increased or decreased to obtain the correct output speed. More modern engineered pulleys like the ones we distribute here at Statewide Bearings are highly precise, offering interchangeability, and come in materials like Cast Iron, Stainless Steel Polyurethane and aluminium to name the most common. Statewide Bearings can manufacture pulleys to order on request.
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Rep. McClintock Dismisses Budget Cuts, Blames Rim Fire in His District on Logging Foes
Representative Tom McClintock
California's Rim Fire, which is wreaking havoc for a third week, was preceded by an array of fire prevention measures fueled by annual budget cuts and the 5% across-the-board sequester whack. For instance, Reuters reported funding cuts short-circuited eight planned controlled burns by the U.S. Forest Service in the 25-square-mile Groveland District of the Stanislaus National Forest, wiped out by the Rim Fire.
Politicians in California, where 92,968 acres out in the woods are identified annually for thinning, generally have a heightened interest in preserving forest areas, and are especially attentive when the woods on fire are in their district, like U.S. Representative Tom McClintock, a three-term conservative Republican.
McClintock, who works in the legislative chamber that originates budget measures, does not believe that funding cuts to the Forest Service contributed to the fire. He wrote a note to the San Francisco Chronicle, which warned them about buying into, "the old sequester song and dance—it doesn't pass the smell test."
McClintock didn't mention global warming as a possible contributor to the blaze, or marijuana farmers as the cause. He didn't want to go as far as Chad Hanson in Salon, who let everyone off the hook when he made a spirited case that the Yosemite National Park fire was beneficial to the ecosystem, a restoration of nature's balance between old and young habitats.
But McClintock did have a culprit in mind—anti-logging interests. "When we carried it out through timber harvesting, we had fewer and less intense forest fires, healthier and more disease-resistant and pest-resistant trees, a healthier watershed and a thriving local economy."
So, no logging, no fire prevention. The frugal McClintock does not seem to share the view of Jonathan Jarvis, director of the National Park Service, who told Reuters from his smoke-filled post in Yosemite, "We've got to invest up front in terms of controlling and managing these fires. Just waiting for the big fire and then throwing everything you've got at it makes no sense."
McClintock is an enthusiastic supporter of the logging industry, and used the fire as an opportunity to pitch for more commercial activity near the Stanislaus Forest and the Lake Tahoe area, just to the north. Although he discounted the value of government funded fire prevention efforts, he liked the idea of private funding. He told the Tahoe Daily Tribune if commercial loggers were allowed into the area, they could contribute some of their revenues to prevention efforts.
Logging near the popular resort area isn't wildly popular. "The cutting of trees in the Lake Tahoe Basin is an emotional issue and getting to the current level of fuel reduction in the Lake Tahoe Basin has taken years," Julie Regan, of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, told the Daily Tribune.
Failure to Thin Brush May Have Worsened California Wildfire (by Jonathan Kaminsky, Reuters)
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Up At Noon: Bad N64 Games On Switch, Suda51's Airplane Poops, and Why Crash Bandicoot Is John Cena
Hey! Here's the very first episode of the all-new, fully-rebooted, flavor-blasted, industrial strength Up At Noon! In case you missed the announcement here along with our totally insane teaser trailer, we've taken some time to retool the show after tons of demand to bring it back. From celebrity and game developer interviews to lists, unboxings, and nonsense, Up at Noon has long been a cornerstone of IGN and we're ecstatic to have it return.
How have we retooled it? Well, this time around we're taking over weekends on IGN, which is probably the best time of the week to actually wake up at noon. We've upped the production value a bunch, too! It's also no longer live, and now exists primarily as a bunch of silly bite-sized segments that will be going up every weekend all across the internet, which we'll also be stitching them together into a proper variety show exclusively on IGN, which is what this is! You'll also be able to watch break-out clips from the show on IGN's YouTube channel every weekend! So grab a huge bowl of sugary cereal (or a healthier breakfast or whatever) and think of it as adult Nickelodeon or a live-action Saturday morning cartoon.
And hey, if you don't enjoy this first episode, maybe give us a few weeks to get back in our groove before you crap all over us in the comments. In spite of all evidence otherwise, a lot of people worked very hard on this latest iteration of Up At Noon, and all the ones that came before it for that matter. If you love it, help it grow! Share it on social media, tweet and Brian and I and tell us what you want to see us do on the show, and annoy your relatives with links to our show on Facebook. And definitely bookmark this page so you never miss a thing!
If Up At Noon is too silly and you demand some hard-hitting grown-up entertainment content from a series video game website that regularly covers other things, here's a piece about Jason Mamoa shaving his beard and still being more attractive than anyone you've ever met. Meanwhile, the launch of Super Smash Bros Ultimate's stage creator has resulted in people drawing a bunch of phallic, dick-shaped, or otherwise penis-themed locations for Wario, Simon Belmont and Joker from Persona 5 to beat each other up.
Oh, and happy 4/20. Please party responsibly. See you next week!
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Last month, YoYo Games launched the HTML5 version of its popular GameMaker tools, allowing users to develop games playable in any HTML5 compatible browser on any platform.
It was a huge step for the company, and came about as a result of YoYo Games keeping a close eye on the shift away from Flash.
Indeed, at this year's Casual Connect Europe conference, the shift from a focus on Flash titles to more HTML5-centric talks made it clear to YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan that HTML5 is the way forward.
"The two core streams were social and mobile gaming - Flash was hardly mentioned at all," Duncan explained to Gamasutra. "Listening to several talks, it became clear to me that the next defining technology for both social and mobile platforms would be HTML5."
"Paul Bakaus (CTO of Zynga Germany) in particular made a very convincing case in favour of HTML5 as the only platform for all future social and mobile game development."
With the conference fresh in his mind, Duncan said "the timing felt right" for YoYo to push for HTML5 support as quickly as possible.
"Initially we were thinking of getting things ready for mid-2012, but a couple of follow up conversations we had with key players, like ngMoco and Zynga at GDC in March, meant we decided to put a lot more of our development effort behind getting HTML5 support before the end of 2011," he noted.
With its new HTML5 tools in place, YoYo is now setting its sights on Facebook's rumored HTML5 platform plans. If Facebook pushes HTML5 compatible content as is expected with 'Project Spartan', it would mean GameMaker developers could finally bring their titles to Facebook's 800M users.
Would YoYo consider setting up its own Facebook publishing label then?
"Yes, absolutely," Duncan told us. "We see Facebook evolving from 'Social Network' to being a significant content distribution platform. It dwarfs even Apple's App Store in terms of potential traffic, and Facebook coins make micro-transactions potentially more granular than iOS'."
YoYo isn't just waiting around for Facebook to move, though -- it already launched its first Facebook title, They Need to be Fed, earlier this week. In fact, by the end of the year, it will be putting every game that it publishes on Facebook, as well as re-publishing past games such as Karoshi and Pollushot.
YoYo Games doesn't just have its sights set on Facebook - the App Store is also an area in which it would like to indulge more often, especially given that the upcoming iOS 5 is set to increase the speed of HTML5 functionality tenfold.
If and when HTML5 fully takes off, Duncan sees a "three tier experience" falling into place.
"Firstly, the top-tier premium experience will continue to be the App Store," he suggested. "Apple does enough testing to ensure that there should be a good consumer experience with most apps that get published via its official channel."
"However, the downside of the App Store is that the economy only works if you have a credit card, which excludes a lot of potential customers - including some major emerging markets such as China where credit cards usage is not so widespread."
He continued, "Another limiting factor is the 'in-app purchase' restriction, where the lowest possible payment is still $1. We see this as quite limiting for some types of games where micro-transactions are important and monetisation options below the $1 cut-off would be hugely beneficial. Overall though, we still expect the Apple App Store to guarantee the best consumer experience on an IOS device for the foreseeable future."
Duncan's proposed second tier is, in fact, Facebook, which he believes will be seen as an alternative to the App Store on iOS, rather than a challenge.
"Facebook still retains 30 percent of your revenue, so from a developer perspective the advantage comes from the huge reach of over 800 million people, but also Facebook Credits, which have payment methods across multiple platforms and a finer level of granularity for in-game purchases, so new opportunities become obvious," he explained.
Finally, the third tier is where HTML5 falls into the mix. Duncan noted that, while it's not 100 percent clear at this moment in time, the enhanced HTML5 performance on iOS devices could provide an alternate method for developers to publish titles on iPhone and iPad.
"Excellent HTML5 performance in iOS would, in theory, provide an alternative to publishing through Apple�s official channels by allowing games of the same standard to be played through the phone�s browser," he noted.
However, Duncan says it's not really that simple. "While the barrier to entry will be non-existent - as little as hosting an HTML5 game on a web page - it will be difficult for both consumers and developers to find the right places to buy and sell external apps," he admitted.
"We do, however, believe that over time some significant brands will emerge in this off-store, off-Facebook space. They may be re-purposed Flash portals, NetOps, digital distribution services like Steam, or something new entirely, but all of these guys will be looking to make money somewhere and this third tier won�t be the 'free ride' utopia that many people are suggesting."
"Also, eager developers who think they�ll be able to set up their own independent website and distribution mechanism and get revenues rolling in will undoubtedly find out that the discovery process is not a freebie and it can take a lot of unexpected work and financial cost to gain decent visibility," he finished.
Today: Social Networks. Tomorrow: The World!
Apart from Facebook and enhanced iOS support, YoYo Games is also looking for other areas to expand the GameMaker brand. The company is currently working hard on GameMaker: Studio Edition, which will allow developers to export their projects to iOS, Android, HTML5, Windows, Mac, Symbian and PSN with "almost no code revisions."
"We've been using this tool internally to publish successfully for iOS, HTML5, Android and the PlayStation Network and we should also start publishing for Symbian later this month," he told us. "GameMaker: Studio also supports native Windows and Mac outputs, though we haven't done much to publish games on those platforms."
Duncan is clearly very excited about the prospects that the Studio Edition will provide, and is already watching every possible platform for future reference.
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Rebuilding Trust: What Newsrooms Are Doing
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I just wrote an article for Poynter Online about the public's distrust in the media. I got the idea for the story after reading Sacred Heart University's recent media reliability study, which finds that 86 percent of the public agreed (strongly or somewhat) that the news media tries to influence public policies. This is up from 76.7% in 2003, according to the survey.
Instead of playing the blame game and arguing about who is right and who is wrong, who is biased and who isn't, I wanted to look at what journalists can do to help rebuild trust. After talking with a few folks, I found out about some news organizations that are actively seeking feedback from the public and working to foster a sense of trust and transparency between the public and the press. I've copied and pasted the article below.
Why do you think the public is so distrusting of the media?
When Spokesman-Review staffers meet Wednesday to discuss the paper's new ethics policy, they won't be gathering in the newsroom. They'll be in the public library in downtown Spokane, Wash., fielding feedback from members of the community.
Wednesday's gathering will mark the last of three meetings The Spokesman-Review has scheduled to hear what the public has to say — good and bad — about the paper's new ethics policy. The meetings are just one example of what news organizations across the country are doing to help rebuild credibility and trust.
Surveys have told us for years that a growing number of people don't trust the media. But when you think of this in terms of democratic values, it may not be such bad news after all.
The Spokesman-Review's new ethics policy. Read/add feedback about the ethics policy. "The Public Bias Against the Press," by Roy Peter Clark"Americans Slam News Media on Believability," Sacred Heart University survey.
"We have some critical citizens who are not naively accepting as truth the news they consume," said Dr. James Castonguay, associate professor and chair of Sacred Heart University's Department of Media Studies and Digital Culture, who helped oversee the university's recent media reliability study. "Maybe people see themselves as taking a more responsible and active role in the democratic process to check sources and be more active consumers of news."
The Spokesman-Review has an online feature, "The Transparent Newsroom," dedicated in part to hearing the needs of critical, active news consumers. The feature includes 10 blogs and a live Webcast of daily newsroom meetings to help the public better understand the work journalists do.
Here are some highlights from The Transparent Newsroom:
1.) Spokesman-Review editor Steven A. Smith's blog, "News Is a Conversation." Created in May 2005, the blog was originally run by five to six community members who wrote about their thoughts on the paper's coverage. After the blog got to be too much of a commitment for the community members, Smith decided to take over.
He posts to the blog just about every day, covering a variety of news and sharing comments he receives about the ethics policy. He recently posted a list of suggestions that The Spokesman-Review's editorial page editor Doug Floyd compiled after the paper's last community meeting:
When the facts change materially as a story evolves, we should report the ultimate facts as conspicuously as the original.
Reporters should not be allowed to bully a source into revealing information, especially when the source is not sophisticated.
When there is very little new to report in an ongoing story, the paper should not publish extended stories that are mostly rehashing background details. One participant felt some of the Larry Craig coverage was an example.
Other comments are less practical, such as one older reader's suggestion that the paper decorate its pages with flourishes and filigree and that it replace its photographs with line drawings and lithographs.
2.) Daily Briefings: A blog that lists updates from The Spokesman-Review's daily news meetings and provides readers with links to published stories, videos and blogs that were discussed during the previous day's news meeting.
3.) Ask the Editors: Spokesman editors Steve Smith, Carla Savalli, Gary Graham and Doug Floyd answer readers' questions about the paper's operations and editorial decisions. Some recent questions and comments the editors have responded to include, "Where's your Afghanistan coverage?", "Can comments with mature content be moved to another page?" and "The Spokesman-Review needs more relevant local coverage."
4.) News Diary — Managing Editor Gary Graham writes regularly on this blog about issues in the news and the inner-workings of a newsroom.
5.) Live Webcasts of The Spokesman-Review's 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. meetings. Smith said the morning Webcast news meetings attract about 40 to 50 viewers. The afternoon meetings attract about 10 or more. The meetings are also open to anyone who wants to attend them in person, Smith said.
Smith has been a long-time advocate of the civic journalism of the early '90s. When managing editor of The Wichita (Kansas) Eagle, Smith and other editors in the newsroom went to churches, malls and recreation centers to talk to readers about public issues. When he was editor of The Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colo., Smith led an effort to invite community groups to the newsroom to critique and audit the paper's journalism. Similarly, when Smith was editor at The Statesman-Journal in Salem, Ore., the paper held open news meetings that attracted community visitors almost daily.
Smith compares readers' standards for the paper to the standards the paper holds for governments and other institutions it reports on. At the root of it all is transparency. The goal is not, Smith said, for the public to start controlling the press or the content it produces, but rather to strengthen the relationship between the press and communities it serves.
"Journalists always retain the right to say no. Transparency is not the same as passivity," Smith said. "When you're as open as we are, it's possible to engage in a debate with readers in ways that we couldn't in the past. When people pitch us an idea it still has to be vetted in all the ways that stories do: Is it important enough? Does it match up with our values?"
The downside to being so transparent is that the paper opens itself up to criticism from the industry, and it becomes easier for newsroom competitors to see what the paper is up to.
But the positives far outweigh the negatives, says Ryan Pitts, online director at The Spokesman-Review, who helped create the Transparent Newsroom blogs. "We realized that any time you hear from one reader with a question, they probably represent a much larger group that has that exact same question," Pitts said. "We are really looking at blogs as a way to show that there are actually human faces behind this newsroom."
People will criticize the paper whether editors know about it or not, so it's better that editors be aware of the criticism, Pitts said. If it's good, thoughtful criticism, then the paper will consider making changes. If it's inaccurate, the paper works to counteract it with the truth.
Similar to The Spokesman-Review, WFTX-TV, a Fox-affiliated station in Cape Coral, Fla., addresses the public's concerns in its "Viewers' Bill of Rights" and its "Viewers' Voice" feature, which gives viewers a chance to discuss their thoughts on the station's recent coverage of events. In the "Viewers' Voice" section, WFTX news director Forrest Carr publishes viewers' concerns — such as one viewer's belief that Fox 4 has a liberal bias — and responds to them.
In a recent interview with Poynter Online, WFTX's news director, Forrest Carr, said the station aims to uphold democracy, "giving voice to everyday people, in all their diversity, and helping them to hold the powerful accountable. We state what we stand for. And we hold ourselves accountable to the public."
At The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., members of the community are invited to attend the paper's page one meetings. The number of people who attend the meetings fluctuates, and sometimes no one attends, but the invitation is always there, says Linda Williams, senior editor for news at The News & Observer.
The paper also hosts a readers' panel, which the paper's public editor, Ted Vaden, oversees. The rotating group of readers who make up the panel meet with various editors on a monthly basis to talk about what they do and don't like about the paper.
"We ask them to give us feedback … and invariably they say 'I had a completely different idea about what this was about, and I see you don't have an agenda, and I see you put thought into this,'" Williams said. "People come away with less of a feeling that's there's a group of people making random decisions without a philosophy of reader interest behind it."
Efforts like these help move us toward a better understanding of the story behind the public's distrust of the media. Journalists and the public still have a lot of work to do, and the polls will continue to tell us this, but we also have a valuable opportunity to reshape the story together in a way that fosters healthy dialogue, transparency and trust.
[How might news organizations help build the trust of the public?]
3 Comments to "Rebuilding Trust: What Newsrooms Are Doing"
This is a really interesting topic that you bring to light, Mal. When I was in Costa Rica on my short-term study abroad trip in January, I called The Tico Times, Central America's largest English newspaper. I went to the office and interviewed a reporter about journalism practices in the country and the region, and what I found was almost the exact opposite of what you are staying here: People really seem to trust the press in Costa Rica, according to the reporter I spoke to. Yet ironically, the newspapers offer extremely biased coverage. In a recent vote on a referendum to approve the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) this past fall, all the major newspapers in the country not only told their readers what they though–that they should vote yes to approve the agreement–but also exclusively covered stories that reinforced their viewpoints, completely ignoring the other side. The Tico Times didn't do that, but the Times is also based out of Utah, making it more American in its coverage. And being more American in its coverage directly means that it is less biased, more objective, and presents multiple sides to every issue, at least in Costa Rica.
With so many talented journalists out there, and such good news sources for us to follow–especially in traditional print form–it's discouraging to hear that 86 percent of people agreed that the news media tries to influence public policies.
The only bone of contention I would have with the media is when it accepts stories from outside source–advertisers, private companies–and prints/uses it as if it were a real story. For example, on NBC10 in Providence this week, a local reporter provided the voice over for a story that was completely filmed, written, and packaged by Consumer Reports–it said so in clear lettering on the top of the screen throughout the broadcast. Consumer Reports presumably sent the same story to media outlets across the country, and local reporters provided the voice over for the same story–which prominently featured the company, though it did have some interesting facts. To me, this is advertising in disguise, and unfortunately, it happens more than we'd like to realize in the media. Yet without advertisers, newspapers, television stations, and news Web sites would have a really difficult time existing, if that were possible at all.
Thanks, Kristina! You bring up a lot of good points. Your comment about people trusting the press in Costa Rica is especially interesting. It's something I'd like to explore further, maybe for an article. We can really learn a lot from what other news organizations are doing outside of the U.S.
Great! You should check out the Tico Times' Web site. They have post-undergrad internships available for bilingual journalists. You'd be great for that, even if it's just for the summer!


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