I thought I would update my journal a little more often than I have been, but I've been busy with work and other work.
Other work is an enrichment class in media literacy that I have been teaching to junior high school kids. Media literacy is such an important subject in today's culture, but kids aren't learning it for two reasons:
1.) Their parents aren't media literate.
2.) Their school teachers aren't media literate.
Teachers are the slowest of creatures to learn something new.
My regular job as newspaper journalist is easier than teaching. Not that teaching is easy -- it's not -- but the people who do it... all I can do is shake my head, because as a group, they just aren't the brightest people, now are they?
Back to real work tommorrow; I start my week Sunday and work through Thursday.
For the second week in a row, the City Council will meet this Tuesday night, and I need to figure out what the most important topic is so I can write about it in advance of the meeting. And so I can make a game plan for what I will write about Tuesday night.
The newspaper is a daily, so when the City Council meets on Tuesday night, I am expected to crank out a story that night, usually between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. (with the meeting not even over yet) for Wednesday's paper.
Maybe I could write about the Adult Use Moratorium. Yeah. It's a little sexy, I even got to go to the county's only topless bar as part of covering this story last month, but politicians are about as slow as teachers are in responding to something "new."
And so dull. "I don't even know what 'adult use' is," said the mayor with a tittering laugh. Yah. Sure you don't, you are a former schoolteacher.
Peter Wakeman
Other work is an enrichment class in media literacy that I have been teaching to junior high school kids. Media literacy is such an important subject in today's culture, but kids aren't learning it for two reasons:
1.) Their parents aren't media literate.
2.) Their school teachers aren't media literate.
Teachers are the slowest of creatures to learn something new.
My regular job as newspaper journalist is easier than teaching. Not that teaching is easy -- it's not -- but the people who do it... all I can do is shake my head, because as a group, they just aren't the brightest people, now are they?
Back to real work tommorrow; I start my week Sunday and work through Thursday.
For the second week in a row, the City Council will meet this Tuesday night, and I need to figure out what the most important topic is so I can write about it in advance of the meeting. And so I can make a game plan for what I will write about Tuesday night.
The newspaper is a daily, so when the City Council meets on Tuesday night, I am expected to crank out a story that night, usually between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. (with the meeting not even over yet) for Wednesday's paper.
Maybe I could write about the Adult Use Moratorium. Yeah. It's a little sexy, I even got to go to the county's only topless bar as part of covering this story last month, but politicians are about as slow as teachers are in responding to something "new."
And so dull. "I don't even know what 'adult use' is," said the mayor with a tittering laugh. Yah. Sure you don't, you are a former schoolteacher.
Peter Wakeman