The Beauty of a Song, Found Two Months LaterOK, so Labor Day Weekend, I was going through Delaware on my beach run when I do what every other normal radio geek does...check out which stations I can get along Route 1 between Lewes and Rehoboth. Overall, you can get the signals that cover Delmarva along with stations from South Jersey, a couple of Philly signals sneak in as well.
I trained in on one signal that I believe was from New Jersey. I tell you know lie, it was one of the most beautiful CCM song I had ever heard. BTW, CCM is your Christian Contemporary Music. Right before I had a chance to hear who did it, the signal faded as I was heading into Dewey.
Fast forward to last night when I was training for WAVA. I was talking to the FM host and I happen to have heard the same song. I grabbed the song and the artists while it was playing on air (God bless the computer age.)
Unfortunately, the kind folks at Napster did not have the song available, HOWEVER, the person who performed the song Crystal Lewis posted the video on You Tube. She also was on Nickelodeon way back when on a little show called "Roundhouse."
Onley: No BoundariesUnless you're Canadian, you have never seen this man before. He is now His Honour, The Honourable David C. Onley, the Lt. Governor of Ontario.
Mr. Onley has had the interesting life. Before he became the Queen's representative in the province of Ontario, he spent 23 years as a broadcaster for CITY-TV (Channel 57) in Toronto. CITY are the call letters. In Canada, they begin with C. Before he appeared on television, he was a radio host for CKO and CFRB. He is also a best selling author for the book "Shuttle," which was published in 1981.
One thing that you will not notice in the picture is that Mr. Onley has a disability. He battled polio at the age of three causing full paralysis at first, but through extensive physical therapy, he regained limited use of his appendages. He is able to use his hands, and is able to walk with braces and special canes.
In typical fashion, I find out the news regarding His Honour yesterday, nearly two months after he was installed in his vice-regal position (thanks Kemi.) He was notified in July as he was driving home from work. As a matter of fact, he had just finished taping his weekly technology show when Prime Minister Stephen Harper called. Mr. Onley told his now former employer when his appointment was made public in an interview that, "I just had reached the top of the Don Valley Parkway ... and there was no place to pull over. When the Prime Minister of your country calls, all you can try to do is stay in the same lane, avoid any fender-benders and have a meaningful conversation, which I did."
Mr. Onley credits his Christian faith and his family support for his successes in life. This is a great story about someone (a Christian mind you) who did not allow an illness hold them back. Because of his faith, he became a best-selling author, popular broadcaster and now a government leader.
Memo to NABJ and NOW...YOU LOST THE IMUS FIGHT
(Arlington, Virginia) It's official. The fight being mounted by the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Organization of Women to keep Imus off the air has NO CREDIBILITY.
The first blow came earlier this week when the Rev. Al Sharpton said that he had no problem with an Imus return. This is more of a re-iteration of what he said this past summer. Now the second blow, last night on Fox News Channel's Hannity and Colmes, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said that he too did not have a problem with Imus returning to the airwaves because he believes in redemption...although he tapped dance around apologizing to the three former members of the Duke Lacrosse team who were smeared by him.
In any event, Imus is coming back to radio and hopefully, he'll replace those bimbos in the morning on FOX and Friends.
And in a somewhat related post to the topic of race relations, Eugene Robinson from The Washington Post a few days ago finally posted honesty about "Black America."
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
NABJ Continues To Party Like 1969
(Arlington, VA) -- Before I start let's establish the facts:
• Paul Kenneth Burns thought what Don Imus said...back in April 2007...about the Rutgers Basketball Team was absolutely stupid and insulting. She should have been suspended without pay and nothing more. He should not have lost his job.
• CBS Radio is infamous for encouraging the lowest common denominator. Firing Imus has not improved my life as a Black man...or anyone's life regardless of race. Al Sharpton should have been focusing his energy on cases like Jena 6 and the woman who was brutalized in West Virginia, instead of keeping busy keeping his name in the papers.
• Thank goodness that the Rutgers Basketball player who was planning on suing Imus withdrew her lawsuit. While Vivian Stringer was ranting over nothing, the team was the true highlight. They proved that they were far from what Imus called them (while he was being pushed by Bernard McGuirk.) This lawsuit was about getting paid, simple and plain.
• Jason Whitlock from the Kansas City Start was right in his commentary the entire time. What About Our Daughters on the other hand...
• Imus apologized and he had paid for his mistakes and then some and we should ALL move on. Imus is insignificant in general.
Unfortunately, the National Association of Black Journalists are not going to. For one thing, from a journalistic standpoint, there is no problem with expressing their opinion in an editorial. Unfortunately, they have crossed over into a realm where no journalist should be...making news. Their statement made news headlines, not their editorial. Barbara Ciara (left) is an anchor for WTKR-TV (Channel 3) in Norfolk, Virginia. She is also president of the NABJ. Editor and Publisher reports that Ciara stated that Imus "used his free speech to broadcast hate speech," adding that for him to return to the airwaves "makes light of his serious and offensive racial remarks that are still ringing in the ears of people all over this country."
This is probably a piece that will probably cut any grace I have with the NABJ, but Ciara was wrong in that last statement. I had completely ignored the story after Imus was canned, but not only did the press recapped part one of the story, the NABJ reminded me of part two, which I thought was too much (the part where Shaprton and the rest of the people who prosper as poverty pimps call for Imus' ouster.)
On top of that, the NABJ now has no strength in keeping him off air, especially after Sharpton said that he had no problems with Imus returning to the airwaves. I have a feeling that Sharpton used Imus' firing as a way to pump his own name. In any event, NABJ should move on to examine issues that are really the problems with Black America like the breakdown of Black Families where there are no real fathers. Personal responsibility and realizing the fact that Tyrone should not be stealing from the corner store to support his family. I can go on, but my time is limited.
Burns to the National Association of Black Journalists...MOVE ON AND FOCUS ON REAL BLACK PROBLEMS, IMUS IS NOT EVEN A FACTOR!
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Reality TV Close To Home
I am just getting into the "To Catch A Predator" series with Chris Hansen, especially since MSNBC is running the episodes non-stop, including the raw tapes of the investigation in which Hansen gives a commentary track to past investigations. I know what you are thinking, what type of sick person am I...I'm not but it's like a train wreck. It amazed me that these perv's know about the series and yet, they think it's ok to "play" with little girls....what a bunch of jackasses! I hope the prison justice system is much more harsh than the legal system. Remember, prisoners detest certain group of convicts and people that mess with children are one sect.
I remember recent watching the "raw" edition from when they set a sting up in Fairfax, Virginia while IMing with my friend Ada at the same time (she was watching too.) When they scared one perv off, the people involved with the sting (Hansen and Perveted Justice) was shocked that this dummy was back on the chat rooms trying to fool another teen girl into an episode. So Hansen and his crew setup shop at a McDonald's that was close by.
As Hansen was confronting this fool, I kept looking at the McDonald's and looking at the background shot behind Hansen and I quickly typed in the IM window talking to Ada, "I KNOW WHERE THAT IS!" She asked me where. Then I told her, "That's the McDonald's in Rosslyn!" She was like are you sure. I told her I was positive.
The significance in this is that YoungD.C., although located in Downtown DC, we would have our meetings in the Newseum Education Center across the river in Rosslyn (Arlington, Virginia.)
Here is the McDonald's where the sting took place on the corner N. Lynn & N. 19th Streets in Rosslyn.
This is the background shot that was behind Chris Hansen. I mostly recognize it for the Quizno's in the background, along with the parking garage.
This is was a complete bindblower. If it wasn't for being a regular in the area for two years, I wouldn't have recognized it at all.
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