Jimmy Kimmel: Advocate for Women

Yes, this is a satire site. But this particular article is spot on about the facts (except, perhaps, for “crazed, drunken, slobbering”). Those are only slight exaggerations.

One can get a good idea about the show here, and here.

So Many Candidates for the Award

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Tribune Wins Journalism Awards

The Marquette Tribune has won two awards in the Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism Competition of the Milwaukee Press Club.

The stories were:

• Best News Story, First Place, Megan Hupp “Morning blast leaves 3 dead, 46 injured”
• Best Sports Story, Honorable Mention, Paul Day “The face of the team”

The Tribune’s two awards equals the two awards won by The Leader at UWM, and The Daily Cardinal at Madison.

The strongest showing in the contest was from Marquette’s Warrior, which won four awards.

So it seems Marquette student journalists have done themselves proud.

The Warrior Wins Awards

The Marquette campus alternative newspaper, The Warrior, has won four awards in the Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism Competition of the Milwaukee Press Club.

According to a form e-mail send out by that organization:

We received hundreds of entries for the contest from news organizations and individuals throughout Wisconsin. The competition was judged by professional journalists and journalism scholars from across the country, from San Diego to Cleveland to Orlando to Dallas, with the judges expressing pleasure at the high quality of work done by Wisconsin journalists.

The winners in the collegiate category:

• Best Sports Story, First Place, Cassie Kowaleski “What it would take to bring D-1 football back”
• Best Feature Story, First Place, Kyle Shamorian “A night in the life of a karaoke singer: The story of one such troubadour”
• Best Editorial or Commentary, First Place, Lucas Fuller “Victory over diversity”
• Best Editorial or Commentary, Honorable Mention, Daniel Suhr “To transform the campus, adjust scholarships first”

The awards will be presented at the 77th Annual Gridiron and Awards Ceremony on April 28th at an event held at the InterContinental Hotel Milwaukee.

Very Inconvenient Indeed

Reporters Call Al Gore “Mr. President”

How does one interpret this?

Al Gore has been out of politics for nearly eight years, but you wouldn’t have known it backstage at the Oscars.

Some journalists addressed him as Mr. President, although Gore lost the closely contested 2000 election to President Bush. Others called him Mr. Vice President.

Gore, whose film “An Inconvenient Truth” captured the Oscar for documentary, pretended at one point during the awards show to be announcing his candidacy for president, but backstage he sang a different tune.

“I do not have plans to become a candidate for office again,” the former vice president told reporters.

Another source says:

Hands shot up all over for Al Gore when he came backstage. What did the international press want to know? Maybe something about how it was to star in an Oscar-winning film? Or how they can help stop global warming? Or how can they fix the wipers on their Priuses? Um, no. Two questioners addressed him as “Mr. President,” and it continued from there, with journalists imploring him to take on Clinton, Obama, and Edwards. For the record, Gore said: “I do not have plans to become a candidate for office again.” Pretty clear in any language.

So do we have a Freudian slip? A slap at the 2000 election process, that gave the presidency to Bush in spite of the fact that Gore won the popular vote? An encouragement to run in 2008?