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Dave
That’s really the challenge of covering public issues, isn’t it? You want to be thorough and fair, but you also need to reveal its significance and meaning to the readers. I think at the Daily News we’ve done a better job of that than most places because we’re a little less chained to a certain AP style , and we’ve always been encouraged to come up with a lead that makes the impact clear and hard hitting. I think the business needs to do that. It needs to pick stories that have meaning to people and write them in a way that has meaning. I think at the Daily News we’ve been a little better in that respect. That’s also one of the things that’s interested me about columns. There are some stories that needed more voice, where you can say “this is what’s wrong”. The great thing about this paper is that it’s given me the freedom to write news stories and columns as part of the same job, and I like how the one rule at the Daily News is that there are no rules.
-- Soon-to-be-former Daily News senior writer Dave Davies, "exit interview" with Phawker.com
I can guarantee you that -- regardless of the outcome of some little football game out west somewhere -- at least one Texas Longhorn is going out as a winner tonight. That would be my longtime colleague and friend Dave Davies. I don't think that any of my co-workers at the Daily News -- as unique and talented as all of them are -- would disagree with me when I say that Dave has been the heart and soul of the newspaper ever since he first walked in the door at 400 North Broad Street.
Dave was always just a Daily News kind of guy -- a rabble-rouser and a cabbie and a teacher who finally came to journalism for the only reason that anybody should: He loved it. Specializing in local politics and government, Dave has been relentless -- right up to his very last day here, which is today -- in his core belief that public officials should be ethical and should be held accountable for their actions. But even as he chased after some of the most notorious bad actors in the brass-knuckles world of Philadelphia politics -- and there are way too many of these -- he was always remarkably fair and even-tempered in his pursuit. You always sensed that he was doing this not because he wanted awards or to make a bigger name for himself, but simply because...he lived in Philadelphia, and he just wanted it to be a better place.
That made Dave a mentor and a role model to pretty much everybody who passed through the Daily News newsroom these last couple of decades. Whenever I wondered whether I was being fair or was staying on track with a story that I was working on, Dave was usally the first person I would turn to for advice. Part of that may have also been just that the dude was there in the newsroom all the time -- somehow finding the time eventually to juggle two high-profile jobs at the same time, when he became Terry Gross' main substitute for NPR's flagship interview show "Fresh Air". Now that he's leaving to work full-time at WHYY, there's been talk of lobbying the powers-that-be to fill his job slot, but Dave himself is irreplaceable. There's one silver lining in this, which is that Dave will be only a few blocks away -- still fighting for Philadelphia, just from a different address.
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Daily News to WHYY, Left and Lefter.— tr88
Just what a newspaper needs--the best reporters fleeing to another medium.- Did Obama rush back to DC when the terrorist tried to blow up that plane? No? he stayed on vacation? WOW— Manny Trillo
- ---} Did Obama rush back to DC when the terrorist tried to blow up that plane? {---- = "Mommy, mommy, President Obama didn't come tuck me in at night after that bad man tried to attack us. I'm scared, Mommy, I'm scaaaaaarrrrrrrred."— Talking point sleuth
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- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>....Will Happer is another, highly-respected physicist out of Princeton who compares the anti-CO2 crowd to the prohibitionists prior to the passage of the 18th Amendment. While he does acknowledge long-term warming, he thinks the influence of CO2 is vastly overstated, and that the benefits of a modest reduction in it will be negligible. In testimony to Congress, he used the following analogy what he means: The earth's climate really is strongly affected by the greenhouse effect, although the physics is not the same as that which makes real, glassed-in greenhouses work. Without greenhouse warming, the earth would be much too cold to sustain its current abundance of life. However, at least 90% of greenhouse warming is due to water vapor and clouds. Carbon dioxide is a bit player. There is little argument in the scientific community that a direct effect of doubling the CO2 concentration will be a small increase of the earth's temperature -- on the order of one degree. Additional increments of CO2 will cause relatively less direct warming because we already have so much CO2 in the atmosphere that it has blocked most of the infrared radiation that it can. It is like putting an additional ski hat on your head when you already have a nice warm one below it, but your are only wearing a windbreaker. To really get warmer, you need to add a warmer jacket. The IPCC thinks that this extra jacket is water vapor and clouds.— Manny Trillo
- Dear rightwingers who keep wanting to pretend that movement Republicans don't dictate what the "mainstream" media reports, please explain this: http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2010/01/no-lie-too-blatently-obvious-if-youre.html ... That's right: ABC's George Stephanoupoulous, who got his ABC gig apparently because of his demonstrated willingness to backstab his Democratic-president employer, allowed Rudy Giuiliani to pretend that 9/11 never happened. Yes, this is the same Rudy Giuliani whose every other word out of his mouth over the past eight years has had to do with 9/11, and who even tried to use 9/11 to scare New Yorkers into letting him stay in office. He would never have attempted to lie like this if he didn't think -- or know -- that Stephanoupoulos would let him get away with it. Which is exactly what happened.— Phoenix Woman
"It is like putting an additional ski hat on your head when you already have a nice warm one below it" . . . . . . Nice analogy......until your head starts to sweat.
I think at the Daily News we’ve done a better job of that than most places because we’re a little less chained to a certain AP style ......... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA— PAEnglish- "Did Obama rush back to DC when the terrorist tried to blow up that plane?" . . . . . . . Why, is al Qeada wondering why he didn't react like a panicked dog? Tell them to try harder next time, 'kay?
- Manny, your analogy assumes that a small increase in body temperature is harmless, but if you raise body temperature a few degrees or by the same percentage as the earth's temperature increase over the last century, you technically have a fever. Also, did you test your analogy? If so, how long did your body's sweat glands tolerate the insulation of an added knit cap on your head?
- "Get a job with the government "they only threaten to have you fired" . . . . . LOL, and if you know just where to keep your nose planted, they'll even pat you on the back and say heckuva job brownie.
- "LOL, and if you know just where to keep your nose planted, they'll even pat you on the back and say heckuva job brownie." Of course they can go the opposite route and say that you acted stupidly if you're a policeman asking a homeowner for ID when a concerned citizen reports a break-in. Sometimes they even prejudge a criminal trial and say that the death penalty will be applied after a "fair trial".— legatus
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