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Good Tuesday morning!
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Jane Seagrave
I dropped a note to Connecng colleague Jane Seagrave (Email) to say hello and to ask
how it was going with President Obama and his family arriving this past Saturday for their
seventh and final presidenal summer vacaon on Martha's Vineyard.
And my queson was rewarded by a story she shared
from last week's Vineyard Gaze退e, where Jane is
publisher, that featured noted authors David
McCullough and Evan Thomas. Jane was the AP's chief
revenue officer and senior vice president under
President and CEO Tom Curley when she leჀÀ the AP in
2011 for the Gaze退e publishership. Jane has been a
friend since I hired her into a fullme posion with the
AP in Santa Fe in 1979 when I was Albuquerque bureau
chief.
She wrote her Connecng colleagues: "In the parlance of the day, the Vineyard Gaze退e is
hyperlocal, meaning we only cover news that relates directly to Martha's Vineyard. In
August, at least, that gives us a lot to write about. This week, as our most noteworthy visitor
and his family arrived for their annual vacaon, we tapped two presidenal authors with
strong es to the Vineyard, David McCullough and Evan Thomas, to interview each other
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about presidenal polics. I think their conversaon is well worth sharing with a broader
audience."
I found the interview to be fascinang, and I think you will too. It leads today's Connecng.
Ron Fournier is a former AP Little Rock newsman who covered the Clintons inArkansas and then moved in 1993 when Bill Clinton was inaugurated to theWashington bureau as a newsman and chief of bureau before leaving AP in 2010. Itwas announced Monday that he is leaving Washington for his hometown of Detroitto become associate publisher of Crain's Detroit Business. A story from Crain's isbelow. In this article in The Atlantic, Fournier talks about "You Can Go HomeAgain." We wish him well.
Mark Mielstadt is handling Wednesday's Connecng while I am away, so please send your
submissions to him at [email protected] See you Thursday.
Paul
A Teachable Moment for Two Students ofPresidenal History
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Two presidential scholars Evan Thomas (left) and David McCullough discuss politics and the 2016 race at the Gazette office last week. VineyardGazette photo by Mark Lovewell
With the Republican National Convention recently concluded in Cleveland, and theDemocratic National Convention still under way in Philadelphia, the Gazette invitedtwo presidential historians with long Martha's Vineyard ties, David McCullough andEvan Thomas, to air their perspectives on the current race.
What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation, which took place at thenewspaper office in Edgartown with publisher Jane Seagrave.
David McCullough has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for presidential biographies, oneon John Adams and one on Harry S. Truman. He has also written eight other books,including most recently The Wright Brothers, about the early days of flight. His manyhonors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which he was awarded byPresident George W. Bush in 2006. He has long owned a home in West Tisbury.
Evan Thomas is a journalist and author of nine books, including his most recentvolume, Being Nixon. He worked for more than 30 years as a reporter and editor forTime and Newsweek magazines, including 10 years as Washington bureau chief forNewsweek. He is currently working on an authorized biography of retired SupremeCourt Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. For many years he had a home in Edgartown.
Here's an excerpt:
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Mr. McCullough: Harry Truman said you have to let the dust settle, and I think ittakes about 50 years, before we can really judge a president. Many of these menwho have been ridiculed or looked upon askance, in retrospect are looking betterand better. Eisenhower, for example. Eisenhower was a superb president. Heserved his country virtually his whole life. He was highly intelligent. He had a strongsense of history and a strong sense of duty.He said some things about leadership that I wish were better known. What's calledfor in a leader. Number one is character. Experience. Ability. And responsibility. Thefact that he did not go to war in Viet Nam. You have to look at what the presidentsdidn't do as well as what they did do. The fact that John Adams did not go to warwith France was one of the best decisions that any president ever made.
Mr. Thomas: Ike had one great quality just to follow up on what David is saying that really struck me. And it's what I call a confidence to be humble. Eisenhower hadan enormous ego, but he knew how to control it, to hide his ego. He'd like to say thathe got ahead by being underestimated. He consciously used this as a tactic, but itwas intrinsic to who he was. This innate modesty that came from his Kansas roots,and his upbringing, real strict religious upbringing, and his training at West Point,forged the kind of character that allowed him to be confident and humble.
Click here for a link to the interview.
And click here for the Gazette's story on the arrival of President Obama for hisfamily vacation.
Ever been a paper carrier? Share what youlearned In Sunday's New York Times, I was fascinated by the business profile of KevinWarren, chief operating officer of the Minnesota Vikings, titled: Championships AreWon in the Details. Click here for a link to the story.
In it, he was asked what he did growing up outside of class besides sports. Heresponded:
I had a paper route. We would have to get up early, around 4 a.m., and I would get home at5:15 a.m. I learned a lesson about the importance of minute details. I picked up another kid's
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paper route because I wanted to grow mine. There was one house in par叙cular that Idelivered papers to, and at the end of the month I went to collect my money. The guy at thedoor said, "We didn't order the paper." I said, "I've been delivering your paper here for amonth." He said, "I know, but we didn't order it."
It turned out his house number included a six, and the top part came undone, so it wasupside down, like a nine. He wouldn't pay me, and the people with the correct address wereupset because they had not go幇䜺en their paper, so I lost double. That was an incrediblelesson for me about how, as you go through life, the minute details are so important.
Share your own experiences as a carrier ‐ including any life's lessons learned as a result ‐with Connecng.
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The benefits of flossing (continued) Cliff Schiappa (Email) Paul, you are right not done with flossing just yet... Ata dinner party at my home Sunday night, good friend Darren Haun, my singingbuddy in chorus and my dentist, laughed at the idea of not flossing. He said "if youdon't floss, it's more business for me!" Personally, I don't floss except during thetwiceayear checkup...still no cavities and perfect gums!
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Ralph Gage(Email) My doctor, listening to the arteries in my neck, asked "Areyou a flosser?"
He said flossing helps prevent plaque, not only in the teeth, but in the arteries. Whoknows? It's simple to floss, and with a family history of heart attacks, why not? And take a look at this link. 0
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Steve Graham (Email) I'm amazed at the string puppets defending flossing.
To my friends, I call the story, Flossie, the Sacred Cow of Dentistry. 0
Commenting on Monday's Connecting Ray Newton (Email) OMG. Looking at the photos of the AP coverage of the1984 Olympicswhat are those curious machines in front of the writersreporters? They have keyboardsbut no screens. Remember when?
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Peggy Walsh (Email) Today's Connecting was packed with Cecilia White's greatmemories of the 1984 Olympics, The New York Times' heartbreaking piece on theKhans and an insightful piece on covering the presidential election. I must admit,however, that the double obituary story stood alone. May he rest in peace!
Stories of interest Ron Fournier named associate publisher for Crain's Detroit Business Crain's Detroit Business announced today that Ron Fournier, an awardwinningjournalist and Detroit native, has been appointed associate publisher for thebusiness publication and website. Beginning in September, Fournier will leadeditorial content strategy and work to expand new business and audienceopportunities.
The announcement was made at a news conference for Detroit Homecoming III, theevent designed to reengage successful Detroit area expats with the city. Crain's produces Detroit Homecoming on behalf of a wide coalition of civic leaders,foundations and major corporate sponsors.
"I can't think of a better time to announce this great news," said Crain's PublisherMary Kramer, who is also codirector of Detroit Homecoming. "Ron is the ultimate
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Detroit Homecoming story. He attendedHomecoming in 2014, was a panelist in 2015, andwe are excited that we could create the opportunityfor him to literally 'come home.' You can bet he willbe part of Detroit Homecoming III."
Click here to read more. Shared by MarkMittelstadt.
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This Is Where War Reporters Go to Learn How to Stay Alive on the
Front Lines (Vice)
By DANIEL TEPPER
Yogurt, parmesan, orange juice, and oatmeal," said Fay Johnson, a medical instructor, lisngher favorite ingredients for simulated vomit as she mixed them together in a bucket. "We'llput a li退le fake blood in there to make it pink."
Johnson was preparing her smelly concocon for the final day of medical drills during themost recent "Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (RISC)" training course in Turin, Italy,during the last week in July.
Conflict zones are dangerous for all journalists, but freelancers are especially at risk. Mostdon't have the money to take expensive hosle environment and medical training courses,and freelancers oჀÀen work without comprehensive insurance, which journalists undercontract with media organizaons are normally provided before going to the front lines.
RISC training provides freelance journalists and photographers with a four‐day crash coursein ba退lefield medical response. The course teaches parcipants how to treat everythingfrom bee sngs to blast injuries, and almost 300 freelancers have taken the course in NewYork, London, Nairobi, Kiev, and Kosovo since it began in 2012.
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John Oliver: 'The media is a food chain which would fallapart without local newspapers' (Poynter)
By KRISTEN HARE
On Sunday night, John Oliver devoted 19 minutes and 22 seconds to newspapers.
"The media is a food chain which would fall apart without local newspapers," the hostof "Last Week Tonight" told his viewers. Included in the segment were a list of mediastories and themes that anyone who's been paying a退enon will remember:
Layoffs and buyouts
The pressures of doing important work while keeping up with producon demands:"Clearly, if they had more me, they would have wri退en 'hashtag invesfarted,'" Oliver saidof that memorable 2015 Boston Globe tweet. "Because that's how you drive theconversaon."
Disappearing statehouse reporters
Bosses that value clicks over important work
Tribune publishing company's last boss, its latest boss, Tronc, "which sounds like the noisean ejaculang elephant makes," Oliver said, "or more appropriately, the sound of a stack ofnewspapers being thrown into a dumpster."
Billionaire owners (some who have bad ideas, some who have dangerous ones).
Click here to read more.
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And click here for the video. Shared by Jim Limbach.
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Donald Trump and the limits of data journalism (Vanity Fair)
The establishment media have suffered two different shocks to the system in recentyears, and they have responded in two different ways. One shock is the Internet;the other is Donald Trump. Let's start with Trump. Journalists seem to be literally ata loss for words to describe how much they despise him. The words they ultimatelycome up with reflect a hostility so frank and so fierce that they will be studied atsymposiums on press responsibility at places like Aspen for years to come,especially if Trump wins.
In the right hands, this newfound freedom of the pressfreedom to reveal yourbiases, whatever the subjectcan be a good thing. In June, a New YorkTimes reporter named Jennifer Steinhauer wrote about Trump's relations with JohnMcCain, a predecessor as the Republican presidential nominee. McCain, of course,spent five and a half years in a North Vietnamese prisonerofwar camp.Commenting on Trump's typically thuggish line about McCain's not being a war hero("I like people that weren't captured"), Steinhauer went on to notethis in a newsstorythat, even though McCain said he'd support Trump anyway, "the episode sitswith traces of bitterness, like old coffee grounds at the bottom of his cup, even if hesays otherwise."
Click here to read more. Shared by Mike Holmes.
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'My Flag's Bigger Than Yours' and Other Patrio镩ኬc Myths (Bill Moyers) By LYNN SHERR
When in doubt, wave the flag.
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"I love this country!" Donald Trump roared last March during a spirited rally in Ohio."I've done great ... We're going to make America great again ... It's payback time!"When asked a few days earlier to explain the vitriol and violence at some of hisgatherings, the man who alleges he'd put "America First" (as if anything could comebefore himself) attributed the same patriotic zeal (minus the financial factor) to hissupporters: "People come with tremendous passion and love for the country. Whenthey see what's going on in this country, they have anger that's unbelievable. ...There's also great love for the country. It's a beautiful thing in many respects."
Except to the folks who got punched.
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The Final Word
Familiar? If so, you're showing your age
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Bob Reid (Email) ‐ recently visited the Sewall‐Belmont House in Washington and cameaway with this photo of objects of our trade that might be familiar to some of us.
Today in History August 9, 2016
By The Associated Press
Today is Tuesday, August 9, the 222nd day of 2016. There are 144 days leჀÀ in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On August 9, 1945, three days aჀÀer the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, a U.S. B‐29Superfortress code‐named Bockscar dropped a nuclear device ("Fat Man") over Nagasaki,killing an esmated 74,000 people.
On this date:
In 1842, the United States and Canada resolved a border dispute by signing the Webster‐Ashburton Treaty.
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In 1854, Henry David Thoreau's "Walden," which described Thoreau's experiences whileliving near Walden Pond in Massachuse退s, was first published.
In 1902, Edward VII was crowned king of Britain following the death of his mother, QueenVictoria.
In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an execuve order naonalizing silver.
In 1936, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics as the United Statestook first place in the 400‐meter relay.
In 1944, 258 African‐American sailors based at Port Chicago, California, refused to load amunions ship following a cargo vessel explosion that killed 320 men, many of them black.(FiჀÀy of the sailors were convicted of muny, fined and imprisoned.)
In 1969, actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally slain at Tate's LosAngeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers were later convictedof the crime.
In 1974, Vice President Gerald R. Ford became the naon's 38th chief execuve as PresidentRichard Nixon's resignaon took effect.
In 1982, a federal judge in Washington ordered John W. Hinckley Jr., who'd been acqui退edof shoong President Ronald Reagan and three others by reason of insanity, commi退ed to amental hospital.
In 1995, Jerry Garcia, lead singer of the Grateful Dead, died in Forest Knolls, California, of aheart a退ack eight days aჀÀer turning 53.
In 2010, former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, 86, the longest serving Republican in the U.S.Senate, was killed in a plane crash in the southwestern part of his state while on his way toa fishing trip (four others also died in the crash outside Dillingham).
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In 2014, Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed 18‐year‐old black man, was shot to death by apolice officer following an altercaon in Ferguson, Missouri; Brown's death led tosomemes‐violent protests in Ferguson and other U.S. cies.
Ten years ago: The White House said neither Israel nor Hezbollah should escalate theirmonth‐old war, as Israel decided to widen its ground invasion in southern Lebanon. PhysicistJames A. Van Allen, discoverer of the radiaon belts surrounding the Earth that bear hisname, died in Iowa City, Iowa, at age 91.
Five years ago: President Barack Obama announced new fuel efficiency standards for worktrucks, buses and other heavy duty vehicles. In a surprise announcement, the FederalReservesaid it would likely keep its Fed funds rate at near zero through 2013 to help theailing U.S. economy. Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced in San Angelo, Texas, tolife in prison for sexually assaulng one of his child brides, and received the maximum 20‐year punishment for a separate child sex convicon.
One year ago: A year aჀÀer the shoong that cast greater scruny on how police interactedwith black communies, the father of slain 18‐year‐old Michael Brown led a march inFerguson, Missouri, aჀÀer a crowd of hundreds observed 4½ minutes of silence. FrankGifford, the Pro Football Hall of Famer who led the New York Giants to the 1956 NFL tleand later teamed with Howard Cosell and Don Meredith in the "Monday Night Football"booth, died in Greenwich, Conneccut, at age 84.
Today's Birthdays: Basketball Hall of Famer Bob Cousy is 88. Actress Cynthia Harris is 82.Tennis Hall of Famer Rod Laver is 78. Jazz musician Jack DeJohne退e is 74. Comedian‐directorDavid Steinberg is 74. Actor Sam Ellio退 is 72. Singer Barbara Mason is 69. Former MLB All‐Star pitcher Bill Campbell is 68. College Football Hall of Famer and former NFL player JohnCappelle is 64. College Football Hall of Famer and former NFL player Doug Williams is 61.Actress Melanie Griffith is 59. Actress Amanda Bearse is 58. Rapper Kurs Blow is 57.Hockey Hall of Famer Bre退 Hull is 52. TV host Hoda Kotb (HOH'‐duh KAHT'‐bee) is 52. ActorPat Petersen is 50. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders is 49. ActressGillian Anderson is 48. Actor Eric Bana is 48. Producer‐director McG (aka Joseph McGintyNichol) is 48. NHL player‐turned‐assistant coach Rod Brind'Amour is 46. TV anchor ChrisCuomo is 46. Actor Thomas Lennon is 46. Rock musician Arion Salazar is 46. Rapper Mack 10is 45. Actress Nikki Schieler Ziering is 45. Lan rock singer Juanes is 44. Actress Liz Vassey is44. Actor Kevin McKidd is 43. Actress Rhona Mitra (ROH'‐nuh MEE'‐truh) is 41. Actor TexasBa退le is 40. Actress Jessica Capshaw is 40. Actress Ashley Johnson is 33. Actress AnnaKendrick is 31.
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Thought for Today: "The truth is lived, not taught." ‐ Hermann Hesse, German‐born Swisspoet and author (born 1877, died this date in 1962).
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