The Yankee and I recorded an episode of my show today. We played it all cool, because it seemed the best approach considering the subject matter. Anyway, the ultimate goal has been reached. We are famous on the Internet:
That’s what we tell Allie, The Black Cat, when we take her picture. She is famous on the Internet:
Of course she’s more famous than both of us put together. Cats and the Internet, after all.
Why, it is entirely possible that the entire agenda of domesticated catdom has been aiming to this moment. Cats knew they should be famous and so they have spent generations buttering us up for the inevitable day that we would create something they could use.
And also, head scratches.
But it begs an important question. They have what they want, now what?
We had a speaker in the building tonight. I spent the night going from the studio to the commons listening to television shows our news crew were producing and Jamie Kalven, who has won a Polk and a Ridenhour Courage award.
And here’s the reason, you should always take the time to listen to people who are passionate about their subject matter. Kalven has that, in spades, for his journalism and what it means to our communities. And so he talked about the importance of what journalism students should set out to do. Truth, authority, power, the man, all of that remains.
“The danger,” he was saying as I took this picture near the end of his visit, “is that we make concessions of our own freedom.”
This is the story Jamie Kalven was talking about.
