Journalists have more freedom, more reach, and more ability to inform than ever before — but those advantages bring an even greater responsibility to the public.
— Read on thehill.com/opinion/white-house/417921-the-greatest-threat-to-american-journalism-the-loss-of-neutral-reporting
See my latest weekly news broadcast that leads off with active-shooter police and paramedic training in the Palm Beach Public School. Officers are trained to go in alone and take out the threat and not wait for backup that’s on the way. Yes, the officers did catch some rounds from the bad guys. Would you have the guts to go?
Civic Association News – R. Michael Brown, Writer | Producer [3:56]
This Week in Palm Beach | 7-27-2018 Edition from Palm Beach Civic Association on Vimeo.
By: R. Michael Brown, Civic Association Communications Director
As we get ready to kick off a new school year, first responders from the Town of Palm Beach trained this week for an active-shooter situation at Palm Beach Public School. It included police, firefighters, and paramedics.
“Before this week, not every officer was trained for a solo-response to an active-shooter in a school,” said Michael Ogrodnick, Palm Beach Police Training & Community Relations Coordinator. “This is what we are training for this week, along with training to get paramedics inserted into an active scene safely, and protect them, so they can do their work to save lives.”
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Facebook suspends ~200 suspicious apps out of “thousands” reviewed so far | TechCrunch
— Read on techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/facebook-suspends-200-suspicious-apps-out-of-thousands-reviewed-so-far/
About time….
Bode Miller
As much as emotion makes for good TV and radio (including web multimedia), interviewers should not exploit personal pain or tragedy just to get rating points, listeners, and viewers.
I won’t show the example in this article. That would just make me guilty of exploitation too. But here’s the story to understand what the interviewers did:
Hey, nobody would ever accuse me of being a fan of lawyers, especially personal injury ones.
However, this guy took a news event about the murder of his own brother and turned it into a local 2 min. Superbowl commercial in Savannah, GA area. Talk about NewsJacking!
This is creative non-fiction brought into movie-like special effects. It’s not just an ad for his law practice. The lawyer, Jamie Casino, is trying to set the record straight about the local chief of police, Willie Lovett. You can’t make this stuff up. Even the character names fit.
Carl Hiaasen couldn’t make a more amazing parody of southern cops and local ambulance chasers.
What do you think?
Speaking truth can be hard for both the speaker and listener. If you’re the speaker, many will hate you for it.
Do it anyway.
You might just help the listener wake up.
#plaintalk
