Friday, May 23, 2008

Nonprofit journalism 1, ABC News 0 (or maybe -1)

Here's a message from Mother Jones magazine:

Friends, we need your help getting credit where it's due: Yesterday, ABC reported an "exclusive" video about anti-Muslim McCain backer Reverend Rod Parsley. Only problem? MoJo showed that video two weeks ago. Here's where you can stand up for scrappy independent investigative reporting and help mainstream media do the right thing: Email this newsletter, our original video, and the whole sordid backstory to three people who should know what happened. If enough people stand up for MoJo today, we might get an on-air apology.


Here's the story.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Which local hospital is best?

As reported in the Journal Sentinel today, the federal government is starting to promote a Web site that allows for comparisons between hospitals on such things as medical procedures and patient care.

You can search by county and compare Mercy, Aurora and Theda Clark here in Winnebago.

Just eyeballing things, it looks like Aurora ranks a little higher in most categories than Mercy, although there is one whole category where Aurora has no data.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

OSAB V--Can you hear me now?

An alert reader pointed this one out to me.

Non-Oshkosh Twin

Oshkosh Twin

Sunday, May 11, 2008

He's baaaack!!!

I was just tooling around the Northwestern's new Web site and discovered that Stew Rieckman is making a comeback in the local blogosphere with his Everyday Editor blog.

As he explains, his first try at this did not end well, and so you have to give him credit for coming back into the fray.

My guess is that it will soon be one of the most widely read local blogs in Oshkosh.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

'Rich people, God bless us'

One of the most revealing moments from Hillary Clinton's appearance on the O'Reilly Factor comes just before the 2 minute mark in this clip.