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Peoria Pundit : So, who exactly who voted to fire Mary Davis?

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 23:49:18 +0000

I'm wondering if Emtronics would consider himself fired if on the day his union contract is being renewed and he was brought into the office and told that he wouldn't be offered a new contract. Would he consider himself fired?

Peoria Pundit : So, who exactly who voted to fire Mary Davis?

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 16:11:02 +0000

UPDATE: Neither Gorenz nor Stowell were present, so the PJS was wrong. The PJS got the job titles wrong. Thanks to the person who gave me the info.

Peoria Pundit : New Pekin citizen journalist is an old Pekin Blogger

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 01:55:47 +0000

I'm sorry ... were you saying something?

Peoria Pundit : It's time for Blogger Bash

Mon, 7 Jun 2010 23:34:29 +0000

Oh HECK yeah. The more the merrier. Be prepared for rowdy Diet Pepsi drinkers.

Peoria Pundit : Kinda of a busy news day yesterday, huh?

Mon, 7 Jun 2010 10:47:08 +0000

Terry: We're friends and all, but just about everything you said in this comment is wrong. "One minute, you're gleefully bashing the mainstream media " Occasionally, I bash the media, it's how you get their attention. And it works. Sometimes I heap praise on them, like the folks who ran WMBD 31's excellent weather coverage this weekend. -- claiming it's a dinosaur and ought to just give up the ghost and go quietly into the night. No. I want the mainstream media (newspapers in particular) to EVOLVE as technology has made the business model of printing news on paper and delivering it door to door financially unsupportable. News organizations that do not evolve WILL go the way of the dinosaurs. That's not a wish, just a prediction. In fact, you are constantly pointing out that the future of journalism is "citizen journalists" such as yourself. More accurately, I believe that ONLINE is the future of journalism. The bulk of reporting will be done by news organizations. I think that the media corporations that own most newspapers and broadcasters will collapse under the weight of their greed and be replaced by leaner, smarter start ups that are run by people with a higher commitment to journalism. Many of these new news orgs will evolve from sites created by people who we today call citizen journalists. Then, when you get called on it, you claim that unless you are actually paid -- in effect made a part of the MSM media you despise -- then no one should expect you to actually go out and perform journalism. No. I hear this "well, why don.t you go out and cover it yourself" comment whenever I offer commentary about the medias. The fact is I did do that, on and off for 20 years. I'm done with working for the MSM. The reason I don't go out and do it on my own is that, hey, I have to work. I work 40 hours a week, sleep eight hours out of the day, and I spend most of the remain time time blogging, helping other people to blog. So "citizen journalists" only do "journalism" when they are paid by a "mainstream media outlet"? No a journalist is anyone who does journalism. What I said in the above comment is that were I making enough money on the blog to quit the day job, I might very well have been out covering one or more of these stories.

Peoria Pundit : Kinda of a busy news day yesterday, huh?

Sun, 6 Jun 2010 17:43:05 +0000

Paul: Welcome back after a long absence. What is your position, actually? That because bloggers aren't doing for free the amount of work being done by professional journalists, that bloggers cannot criticize news organizations for insufficiently staffing their news departments? This blogger would be happy to go screaming into the night in pursuit of storm coverage to assist the underpaid and understaffed local media ... provided someone if going to give me a salary to let me quit my day job. Until then, I offer my little criticisms and do some reporting when the spirit and my schedule allows. But thanks for the input.

Peoria Pundit : WMBD 31 is THE station to watch when the weather turns dangerous

Sun, 6 Jun 2010 03:41:30 +0000

Pictures of damage from Elmwood, pictures of tornadoes, all sent to station by viewers, is classic citizen journalism. Folks have been doing this since before anyone called it citizen journalism. But cell phones and email are helping citizens contribute to the public's body of knowledge.

Peoria Pundit : WMBD 31 is THE station to watch when the weather turns dangerous

Sun, 6 Jun 2010 03:39:06 +0000

WMBD's Bob Larson -- with more than three decades experience in Peoria, many as a weatherman -- was worried the heart of Peoria was going to be wrecked by a tornado. We dodged a bullet.

Peoria Pundit : WMBD 31 is THE station to watch when the weather turns dangerous

Sun, 6 Jun 2010 03:37:31 +0000

Downed power lines and trees on the West end of Peoria

Peoria Pundit : Stacy Peterson case has East meeting West in Peoria

Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:29:27 +0000

Stealing some recent comments from TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/2010/06/05/drew-peterson-stacy... 36. Neighbor just said two large black suburbans with tinted windows just pulled out of the site. Don't know if that means anything. The tent is probably up because it has been raining on and off all day. Posted at 4:18 PM on Jun 5, 2010 by dk and ... 38. Update: The dig is over for today and will likely not resume tomorrow, said Illinois State Police Sgt. Tom Burek. Burek declined to say whether anything was found. He added that it's possible that they'd start digging again Monday. The diggers had carved out a 10-foot-by-10 foot section in an area that was very difficult to navigate, Burek said. As of now they have let go the anthropologist they had brought in for assistance. The tip is "significant in the fact that we're here," he said.

Peoria Pundit : Stacy Peterson case has East meeting West in Peoria

Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:22:38 +0000

How can we assume that the truth is being told by an agency that won't confirm they are hunting for the body we KNOW they are hunting for. Feh.

Peoria Pundit : Stacy Peterson case has East meeting West in Peoria

Sat, 5 Jun 2010 21:55:59 +0000

I expected TMZ to have a follow up. At least they were awake last night. My recent post PeoriaStation: Some communities build transportation infrastructure

Peoria Pundit : City takover of schools is a bad idea

Fri, 4 Jun 2010 00:43:00 +0000

As a member of the postal workers union, you ought to be aware of the concept of due process before one can lose their job, right?

Peoria Pundit : Rachel Corrie rears her ugly head once again

Fri, 4 Jun 2010 00:34:05 +0000

Peoria Pundit : Rachel Corrie rears her ugly head once again

Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:50:46 +0000

Rachel Corrie died nothing to even attempt to bring peace to the Middle East, so I am not worried in the least that she or people like her would bring peace to the middle east. Israel IS at peace with those Arab nations willing to be at peace with Israel. Israel was in the middle of making peace with Fatah ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah ) when Hamas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas) was a popular vote. My "glee" at her death is nothing more than a reaction to those terrorist sympathizers and useful idiots who want to turn this unworthy person into a martyr.

Peoria Pundit : Pabst gets sold to private investor, probably still tastes like 25-year old urine

Tue, 1 Jun 2010 04:06:40 +0000

They announced it on a Friday in November. So it would have been a Thanksgiving banner. Al Harkrader, as I recall, owned a studio very close to the Pabst plant. My recent post TThis Week on Twitter

Peoria Pundit : Lathan lowers the boom: Ouster of Glen Oak's principal a sign of change at District 150

Mon, 31 May 2010 04:02:33 +0000

I am well aware she was put on "paid administrative leave." Lathan didn't do this because she was HAPPY with Shipp. I have the feeling if I said, "red" you would say "blue." My recent post TThis Week on Twitter

Peoria Pundit : Google is a greedy, bloodthirsty parasitic tick that has attached itself to the jugular vein of the

Mon, 31 May 2010 02:45:33 +0000

Ramble: For that reason, I prefer to sell graphic ads. But text link ads serve a purpose: They increase the number of sites that carry links to the advertisers sites, increasing their page's Google rankings. Banner ads convey useful information to viewers, much like a newspaper ad can.

Peoria Pundit : Another D150 boss is on paid leave (UPDATED)

Sat, 29 May 2010 16:10:58 +0000

Sud: I graduated 8th grade at Glen Oak in 1977. There were at least two sections at each grade level. Classes were close to 30 students. With 9 grade levels (K-8). So we had about 500 kids when I attended Glen Oak. And we didn't have an assistant. Maybe 30 years from now, we'll be be SHOCKED that a 500 student school doesn't have 10-full-time administrators.

Peoria Pundit : Another D150 boss is on paid leave (UPDATED)

Sat, 29 May 2010 16:07:13 +0000

Lynn: Here are some facts about me which you might not be aware. I was an education major for two years. I did student observations at grade schools and high schools, including Harrison Primary and Manual High School back in the early andlate 1980s. I was more recently a substitute teacher. As a reporter, I covered the education beats at school districts in two states. As a college reporter, I covered the college of education, and saw how decisisons were made regarding how teachers were trained. I do not say this because I think it makes me an expert. Far from it. But I think it's fair to say that I have a little bit better perspective than most. Thanks for your input.