If the press corps were a basketball team, they'd be stepping all over each other on the court, unaware that the ball had bounced out into the parking lot. Here are some of the connections they've missed lately:
How could that be? They told us all about something they hadn't heard about themselves. But what did enquiring reporters want to know on yesterday's Sunday talk shows? "Has Rumsfeld had it with the media?"
Mr. Bush didn't see the connection: he practically took credit for the Brown v. Board decision today, while calling for separate-but-equal in that discriminatory constitutional amendment he's pushing for.
Missed connection #3:
Colin Powell was in the middle of answering Tim Russert's question yesterday on "NBC's Meet the Press" when this happened:
This one's a local story in the blogosphere. Blogware provider Movable Type announced it would be charging for what was previously free almost immediately after Blogger irritated some of its users with a redesign that giveth as it taketh away. If Movable Type had waited a few weeks, they might have picked up some Blogger emigrants before they announced their new pricing plan.
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"Second-day lede" is journalistic jargon for putting a new spin on a story for a second or subsequent news cycle. A 'lede" is the lead sentence of an article, deliberately misspelled to make it more easily recognizable as jargon. Once upon a time, news moved in daily cycles, but now it has become a constant flow of rewrites and "second-day ledes."
Second-Day Lede is also the name of this blog, where you'll find commentary on the news, and especially on the industry that cultivates, harvests, processes, packages, distributes and delivers it to us.
Who's writing this stuff?
A veteran of more news cycles than she'd care to admit, Janet Dagley Dagley entered the profession of journalism as a teenager, covering local government meetings at night for the Dayton Daily News in Ohio, becoming a full-time staff writer at 18 and later moving on to the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times (Orange County Edition). Over the years she has worked as a freelance writer, editor, and radio producer in the U.S. and Europe. Although she has won numerous awards, she lost both times major metropolitan dailies submitted her work for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing, and also lost on Jeopardy! (though she did win a trip to Hawaii). Most recently, she was editor of AIRSPACE, the journal of the Association of Independents in Radio, a U.S.-based group of public-radio producers, and a member of the AIR Board of Directors. She has been blogging independently at The Dagley Dagley Daily since February, 2003.
