{"id":573887648,"date":"2015-02-10T23:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T05:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887648"},"modified":"2015-02-19T17:56:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T23:56:56","slug":"things-to-read-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/02\/10\/things-to-read-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems we&#8217;re behind on interesting links lately. Let&#8217;s just smear a bunch of them all over the place now. <\/p>\n<p>First, a great handful of journalism items:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/1\/29\/7939067\/ap-journalism-automation-robots-financial-reporting\">AP&#8217;s &#8216;robot journalists&#8217; are writing their own stories now<\/a><br \/>\n<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/mediashift\/2015\/02\/journalism-professors-should-teach-accuracy-checklists\">Why Journalism Professors Should Teach Accuracy Checklists<\/a><br \/>\n<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/critical_eye\/alice_dunnigan_ethel_payne.php\">Meet the first two African American women in White House press corps<\/a><br \/>\n<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/nbc-s-brian-williams-recants-iraq-story-after-soldiers-protest-1.327792#.VNK9gertN10.twitter\">NBC\u2019s Brian Williams recants Iraq story after soldiers protest<\/a><br \/>\n<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/02\/05\/media\/brian-williams-iraq\/index.html\">Controversy grows over Brian Williams&#8217; Iraq apology<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brian Williams has to go. Hey, most of us without head trauma would probably remember the simple act of being in a helicopter knocked out of the sky. <\/p>\n<p>Also, the last two &#8216;graphs in the Stars and Stripes story linked above:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O\u2019Keeffe said the incident has bothered him since he and others first saw the original report after returning to Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the years it faded,\u201d he said, \u201cand then to see it last week it was \u2014 I can\u2019t believe he is still telling this false narrative.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> That word &#8220;still.&#8221; Also there were reportedly <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pagesix.com\/2015\/02\/05\/tom-brokaw-wants-brian-williams-fired\/\">years of warnings, or pleadings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One more journalism tidbit: <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@ToTheVictor\/wait-you-want-me-to-fit-a-drone-into-my-journalism-toolkit-45ff5c85eb83\">Wait, You Want Me to Fit a Drone into My Journalism Toolkit!?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes. And bring me one as well. You can even have the Millennium Falcon one for yourself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RpvIU8i0khs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some nice news about our program: <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samford.edu\/news\/?id=21474869557#article\">Journalism program earns honors in national ranking<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Samford University\u2019s Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) has earned impressive honors in a new ranking of national journalism education programs. Samford debuted at number 43 out of the 187 programs ranked by the College Factual website.<\/p>\n<p>The site, which provides rankings and other customized information to help students find the college most likely to lead to their future success, also revealed that Samford\u2019s journalism program is:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A top-25 \u201cmajor value\u201d in journalism education nationally.<br \/>\n\u2022 The top journalism program in Alabama.<br \/>\n\u2022 One of the top journalism programs among U.S. private universities.<br \/>\n\u2022 One of the top journalism programs in the South<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great students, great alumni, hardworking faculty, big rankings. <\/p>\n<p>Other local news:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2015\/02\/baptist_minister_explains_why.html\">Baptist minister explains why she will be performing the first same-sex marriage ceremony in Huntsville<\/a><br \/>\n<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/living\/index.ssf\/2015\/02\/unitarian_pagan_and_other_mini.html?hootPostID=57c24c3ba4a8dcd159283f9499bff82c\">Unitarian, pagan and other ministers officiate gay weddings; one Methodist pastor dances<\/a><br \/>\n<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2015\/02\/indian_citizen_stopped_by_madi.html?hootPostID=b95c1b22b5313979f753b2b4d6a2fe59\">Grandfather visiting Alabama from India stopped by police while taking walk, left partly paralyzed<\/a><br \/>\n<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.com\/story\/28006109\/enterprise-student-submits-winning-design-to-nasa\">Enterprise student submits winning design to NASA<\/a><br \/>\n<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxal.com\/story\/28024152\/alabama-psychiatric-services-close-across-state\">Alabama Psychiatric Services close across state<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And a few tech links to call it a day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/article\/243242\/millennial-spend-more-time-with-mobile-impacts-tv.html?edition=79993\">Millennials Spend More Time With Mobile, Impacts TV Time<\/a><br \/>\n<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2015\/02\/the-homepage-is-alive-or-at-a-minimum-here-are-64-ideas-for-what-it-could-become\/\">The homepage is alive \u2014 here are 64 ideas for what it could become<\/a><br \/>\n<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2015\/02\/09\/the-long-lost-apollo-11-artifacts-discovered-in-neil-armstrongs-closet\/\">The long-lost Apollo 11 artifacts discovered in Neil Armstrong\u2019s closet<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That last one is interesting, but <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/First-Man-Life-Neil-Armstrong\/dp\/1476727813\">read your Hansen<\/a> and it will make perfect sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems we&#8217;re behind on interesting links lately. Let&#8217;s just smear a bunch of them all over the place now. First, a great handful of journalism items: AP&#8217;s &#8216;robot journalists&#8217; are writing their own stories now Why Journalism Professors Should Teach Accuracy Checklists Meet the first two African American women in White House press corps NBC\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,25,7,44,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573887648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-links","category-samford","category-things-to-read","category-tuesday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573887648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573887654,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887648\/revisions\/573887654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573887648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573887648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573887648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}