by Kevin Burton What I see 20 feet away, you can see 200 feet away. By definition therefore, I am legally blind. So you would think, all other things being equal, my career as a jaywalker could/should be painfully short, or maybe even disastrously shortened. I was very nearly run over by …
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Good News! Taking Action, Saving Lives
by Kevin Burton The Good News Network is a good place to hang out. It’s a place to find stories Paul Harvey would have liked. Good news above the fold for a change, and why not? “Above the fold” refers to the part of a newspaper that shows in a newspaper box. …
Put Your Hand To The Plow, For The Gospel
by Kevin Burton I have spent most of my life in the American Midwest, the breadbasket of the world, but I never did learn to use a plow. Nevertheless we are going to talk plows today as we learn about focus and hard work in service to God, in a message from Dr. …
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Now The Dictionary Is Speaking My Language
by Kevin Burton At one of my newspaper stops I was introduced to readers as speaking “fluent Spanish” That wasn’t, and isn’t, quite true. But I do speak some Spanish and it has done me some good over the years. How much Spanish do I speak? I once described it as “enough …
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Good News About Life Savers Among Us
by Kevin Burton Then Apostle Paul said better than I ever will: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on …
Use A Variety Of Verbal Tools To Communicate
by Kevin Burton In my early studies in journalism I heard or read somewhere that a news reporter should write at a 10th-grade level. I never did that. I wouldn’t. I was very aware that I was talking to everyone, “broadcasting,” in the print news sense of the word, with the emphasis on …
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Des Moines Isn’t Boring, Really, I Mean It
by Kevin Burton Did you know there is a Memphis, Missouri? Fewer than 2,000 people live there. We came perilously close to joining them on vacation two weeks ago. We had planned to see the big Memphis – the BB King-Jerry Lee Lewis-Johnny Cash Memphis – but a flood warning for the …
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How I Rode Cold Notes Straight To The Top
by Kevin Burton Today we finish up the Dictionary Scoop website’s list of jargon phrases used in journalism. As I did yesterday, I will add to the list. “Above The Fold” is a term that refers to stories and pictures that appear in the top half of the front page. It’s the part …
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Speaking My Language, Journalism Jargon
by Kevin Burton Every industry has its insider jargon and our friends at Dictionary Scoop have released a list of journalism phrases. And I’ll get to it, gladly. But first, one bone to pick. So the way I was trained in journalism was, get to the point, now. Put the most important …
Taking Uber To Calvin And Hobbes’ House?
by Kevin Burton I open my Uber app. First thing it wants to know, “where to?” Good question. Obvious question, logical. Oh I know exactly where I want to go. And I’m pretty much packed already. Traveling light. But the thing is…well I don’t, you know, strictly speaking, have an actual …
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