Happy MLK Day!
Here are your Must Reads:
MUST READS FROM THE SOUTH DAKOTA INTERNETS:
Restaurant inspections
21/01/08 10:30 from Republic Insider
The rash of forced restaurant closures due to failed health inspections has been a hot topic around town in recent days.
- No wonder Sibby is always so grumpy. Eating out in Mitchell appears to be like playing Russian roulette with food poisoning.
You Can’t Kill the Truth: Remembering Martin Luther King
21/01/08 08:39 from Dakota Voice
By John W. Whitehead “We’ve got to give ourselves to this struggle to the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point. We’ve got to see it through. Be concerned about your brother….
- It’s actually kind of cute when the Right Wing rediscovers Martin Luther King, Jr. once a year.
Walker, Texas Haranguer
21/01/08 10:08 from spoon-fed otherwhirled
photo credit: Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME “Respec’ Mah Authoritay, old man! Repeat after me! ‘Ah’m gonna vote fer Huckabee!’ Say it! Say it!!!!”…
- You have to click on this one to appreciate it.
SMILIN’ MIKE’S ROMANTIC COUPLE #4: Jarrod Johnson & the fake cowboy suit
21/01/08 13:00 from .
The integrity of Wall Drug cowboys is intact since Minnehaha County farmboy Jarrod Johnson hung up his campaign fake cowboy suit in favor of the Brooks Brothers suits and ties that have altered his public image, now that Jethro’s got a…
- Did we elect a cowboy hat or a person to the School and Public Lands job last fall?
MUST READS FROM THE NON-SOUTH DAKOTA INTERNETS:
Eight Questions Reporters Should Ask Hillary
21/01/08 11:56 from CJR
The following is the fourth post in my Questions Reporters Should Ask series. My goal for the series is to highlight questions that, to my mind and to the best of my research, the press has not asked (or at least not asked often…
- And I’ll add a ninth, with apologies to Cheech and Chong; “Who cuts your hair, man?”
Jay Rosen: Why horse race journalism works for journalists
21/01/08 08:46 from Romenesko
TomDispatch.com | Connecticut Post “Who’s-gonna-win is portable, reusable from cycle to cycle, and easily learned by newcomers to the press pack,” writes Jay Rosen . “Journalists believe it brings readers to the page and eyeballs…
- I’ll put my money on MSNBC to win, CNN to place, and Fox Noise to show.