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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Noted Without Comment Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:31 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	Former Los Angeles Times Jerusalem bureau chief and NPR reporter Bill Drummond, who has dodged bullets in Beirut and Bangladesh, covered the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, and done "the whole nine yards" of daily journalism, is taking on a new media frontier.<p>Departing from the hard-bitten old school, "Front Page'' newspaper tradition, Drummond now tells journalism graduate students, "There's nothing more exquisite than having your feet massaged.''<p>Drummond, 59, who has taught radio broadcast journalism at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism for two decades, has launched a new course this semester: Emotional Balance for Working Journalists. ...<p>Drummond's class, with its hands-on emphasis on Eastern holistic healing, is novel. Each student must take at least six sessions of an energy- based exercise, such as tai chi, yoga or qui gong. And each student must get at least one bodywork session from a certified therapist and make a presentation on it to the class. (SFGate)<p>[ March 08, 2004: Message edited by: blanp ]</p>
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paulwiggins	Post subject: Re: Noted Without Comment Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:45 pm
Joined: Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:01 am Posts: 3137 Location: Homebush NSW Australia	And then all suitably centered and balanced they'll enter the real world and meet charming gentlemen such as myself. Poor luvvies.
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Jackie	Post subject: Re: Noted Without Comment Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:56 pm
Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 598 Location: The Herald in Everett, WA	Emotionally balanced working journalist is an oxymoron.
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AshGarf	Post subject: Re: Noted Without Comment Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 10:09 pm
Joined: Wed Dec 24, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 48 Location: South Carolina	Wouldn't want to bother teaching anything important such as ethics or working a beat. I mean, emotional balance -- now that makes a journalist.
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larepublica	Post subject: Re: Noted Without Comment Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:16 am
Joined: Fri Nov 28, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 399 Location: Lesotho, where it does snow	I always thought that the way to attain emotional balance while being a journalist was through self-abusive consumption of adult beverages. I guess times have changed.
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Re: Noted Without Comment Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:48 pm
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	I'd be satisfied to see six hours of energy-based reporting out of some of our folks.
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"This is like group therapy with prisoners in the Poynter Institute's dungeon." ... "You take a vocation that the simple-minded consider to be mere drudgery, and you exploit every bit of fascinating and humorous nuance imaginable." ... "Delicious" ... "Ask your professors? The only professors whose opinions matter are named Walsh, Blanchard and McIntyre." ... "What I come here for, I can find ONLY here. Phillip, you've built a great place." ... "Nothing gets us hotter than reading bitchy discussion threads from over-exhausted copy editors endlessly debating the merits of "theater" versus "theatre." ... "I love this site. It's better than the Kool-Aid acid tests." ..."I'm awed at the efficiency with which matters of opinion get hashed out in this forum." ... "Phil is the bomb!" ... "I'd wager that it's exactly your sort of hidebound thinking that contributes to the problems newspapers are having attracting readers." ... "I'm totally obsessed with this site. It's like porn--if you get off on Scrabble." ... "It reveals the backstage carping and vindictive emotions that roil the souls of those trapped at the copy desks." "When they say "testy," they certainly mean it. Whether it's reporters, editors, or the general public, no one is above their savage snark." ... "An apparent crack in the thin grey line." ..."Testy Copy Editors is a bitchboard for journalism's underclass." ... "My desire to read 'Testy Copy Editors' is only rivalled by my desire to pop "Constipated Call Girls" in the DVD player." ... "Phillip Blanchard is not just a testy copy editor, but a prophet scorned in his own time, and those of us who defend wordplay will be punished for it come the Judgment Day." ... "Phil Blanchard is as dashing in person as he is at the TCE board." ... "As far as writing and editing go: Read this board, read Bill Walsh, memorize the style book, read William Zinsser, and read the New York Times. That's a good start." ... "You should let go of your bitterness. You were not the oppressed talent you thought yourself to be. You were a miserable, brooding, silent, joyless grind, lucky to have a job at the Sun-Times, and we're lucky now that you've moved on to afflict others."

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