News & Record's citizen media plans
The Los Angeles Times is the latest to report on the much-watched experiment by the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C., to use the Web to better tap the community. Aside from the dozen or so blogs launched, the paper is planning to integrate citizen journalists into the Web site within the next three to six months.
Feeling that towns in outlying areas are under-covered, the paper will try to recruit correspondents to file reports about their neighborhoods. Finding reliable writers and getting them to contribute in a meaningful way remain open questions.The paper already permits registered users to submit articles onto its website. The stories undergo light editing for spelling and grammar. Only one story has been held back for concerns over libel.
Thus far, submitted stories include an announcement about the observation of household hazardous waste day, another about the dangers of carpenter bees, and a grandfather's writing about his grandson's grand slam in a Pony League baseball game
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Obama Uses Police Memorial for Porta Potties
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Obama Uses Police Memorial for Porta Potties
This photo by Officer Thomas Brennan shows the porta potties setup on the police memorial, with its flag still at half mast.
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May 30, 2008
PORTLAND, OR – Police officers in Portland, Oregon, are still waiting for an apology from Barack Obama after campaign staffers of his recent rally in Portland, Oregon, setup porta potties directly on top of the Portland Police Memorial, which honors the agency’s 25 fallen police officers.
The Obama rally drew a crowd of over 75,000 people.
Officer Thomas Brennan, who was working overtime at the rally, took a picture of the offending toilets, with the American flag still at half mast because of Police Officers Memorial Day, directly behind them. The local law enforcement memorial service had been held at the site only five days earlier.
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Despite a large amount of open areas in the vicinity, the campaign staffers claimed the toilets were placed on the memorial for safety reasons to accommodate wheelchair access.
The Obama campaign has not responded to requests for an apology.
Want to express your outrage and ask for an apology? Contact Senator Obama here.
Posted by Dave Moser at June 25, 2008 11:58 PM
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