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Something is happening here...: Won't get fooled again? Yes we will.
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Something is happening here. If it's making news, it's worth commenting on. Friday, January 18, 2013. Won't get fooled again? We've been paying a lot of attention in the news this week to liars. I know, I know, that's nothing new. The difference is the lying is the story. First, let's look at Manti Te'o, the star Notre Dame football player who got a lot of mileage out of the "death" of his fake girlfriend this fall before it was revealed to be a hoax this week. Apparently not. Or if they did, when th...
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Something is happening here...: December 2011
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Something is happening here. If it's making news, it's worth commenting on. Saturday, December 31, 2011. No apologies from journalists. This is what we do. Here in central Maine a 20-month-old girl is missing. Her dad put her to bed on a Friday night and she was gone when he went to check on her the next morning, he told police. That was two weeks ago. I gave some quick and generic answer. But I've been thinking about it, and I'm going to try again here. I don't need to add my voice to that chorus. Good ...
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Something is happening here...: January 2013
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Something is happening here. If it's making news, it's worth commenting on. Friday, January 18, 2013. Won't get fooled again? We've been paying a lot of attention in the news this week to liars. I know, I know, that's nothing new. The difference is the lying is the story. First, let's look at Manti Te'o, the star Notre Dame football player who got a lot of mileage out of the "death" of his fake girlfriend this fall before it was revealed to be a hoax this week. Apparently not. Or if they did, when th...
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Something is happening here...: February 2012
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Something is happening here. If it's making news, it's worth commenting on. Friday, February 17, 2012. Wake Bids Hub Adieu. Red Sox fans of a certain age have a habit – painfully earned – of remembering the bad times with as much clarity as the good times. Or maybe even more. Even the salve of World Series victories in 2004 and 2007 hasn't changed that. Or at least not as much as it should have. Red Sox fans just love to poke the bruise. Dent. Schiraldi. McNamara. Little. Boone. Denny Galehouse, anyone?
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Something is happening here...: End of the world? And this is how we cover it?
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Something is happening here. If it's making news, it's worth commenting on. Saturday, May 21, 2011. End of the world? And this is how we cover it? Well, here we are, our last day on Earth. Kind of feels so.ordinary. You'd think at least God could have given us some sunshine to usher us all out with. But since we're sinners and he's going to annihilate us all, I guess that's not a realistic hope. I watched Nightline last night when a serious-as-hell reporter asked Camping, "But if it doesn't happen.".
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Something is happening here...: This is how we cover it? Part two.
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Something is happening here. If it's making news, it's worth commenting on. Monday, May 23, 2011. This is how we cover it? Well, the world didn't come to an end Saturday, as we all knew it wouldn't. And while a flabbergasted Harold Camping presumably gets out his calculator and tries to figure out where the missing decimal point is, the media gets a few more days of non-news. Because, come on, we all knew the world wasn't going to end. Truly "Dog Bites Man" in its silliest form. But did we have to listen?
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Something is happening here...: June 2012
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Something is happening here. If it's making news, it's worth commenting on. Monday, June 25, 2012. We were told the world was now ours. Little did we know. This originally appeared in the Kennebec Journal. As a column on June 22, 2012. That's me in the picture, at 16, second from the left in the top row. The story, without a photo, was on page C1 of Sunday's Morning Sentinel.). Our names aren't listed; instead there's a caption: "It was a year of experience for the JV softball team being its first year i...
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Something is happening here...: January 2012
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Something is happening here. If it's making news, it's worth commenting on. Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Tim Thomas gives back. By now the entire world - OK, that corner of the world that follows New England sports, which in New England we assume is the entire world - knows that Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas blew off the Stanley Cup winners' White House visit, including a meeting with President Barack Obama. Thomas said snubbing the ceremony wasn't political. A lot was made on Boston-area TV today of his...
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Something is happening here...: November 2011
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Something is happening here. If it's making news, it's worth commenting on. Tuesday, November 22, 2011. Getting it would be a good start. A story in the Boston Globe's sports section Monday on the continuing saga of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse allegations was particularly disturbing. The story talked to men who played for or coached with Sandusky during his one year at Boston University in 1968. No, it didn't bring forward any new charges or graphically describe the old ones. The council says: "On...