Posted: August 18th, 2009 | Author: Noah | Filed under: Media, News, Politics, Video | 2 Comments »
I was watching The Colbert Report at lunch this afternoon and about 1 minute in to the clip of “The Word” something got on my nerves. Watch for yourselves . . .
Did President Obama just criticize the US Postal Service? Is the cost of postage stamps really an example of horrible government service at a really terrible price that is gouging the American public? I didn’t think it was, so I looked up some information and found out that not only does the cost of postage stick pretty darn closely to the Consumer Price Index, but also any increase in cost in postage rates pales in comparison to the increasing cost of health care premiums. See the graph and my rant after the jump . . . Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 6th, 2009 | Author: Noah | Filed under: Media, Projects, Technology | 2 Comments »
A year ago today the Guadalajara Reporter launched a completely new site that was developed by me. Â So I thought that it might be a good time to talk about what this last year has brought to the site, what I think about working on a newspaper website, and what I think about the future newspapers in general.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2006 | Author: Megan | Filed under: Latin America, Media, Personal | 1 Comment »
Yeah, it sucks that I lost my passport, my work visa and my bank card – all in the last week. But I also sat 9 feet away from my favorite actor (ohmygod!, ohmygod!, ohmygod!), Gael Garcia Bernal, at a press conference. I also had a nice interview with Yann Martel, author of one of my favorite books, “Life of Pi.” My interview with Yann made it into the newspaper – but my nice little caption story on Gael did not. My editor says he wants to attract a younger audience. Hel-lo! print a damn photo of the hottest, coolest, most respectable actor out there!
Film Star and Author Host Fund-raising Event
Actor and activist Gael Garcia Bernal joined Nobel Prize winning author Jose Saramago to present Guadalajara’s Civil Hospital Association Foundation with a check for 475 thousand pesos, representing the proceeds from their joint reading of selections from Saramago’s latest work, “Las internitencias de la muerte (The Intermittence of Death),” at the Teatro Diana on Wednesday evening. The donation will be used to assist children battling cancer in the city. Bernal, who grew up in Guadalajara, said he felt honored to have been invited to work with Saramago in his hometown, and that he feels the event is a great example of what each person can do in his or her life to help others. “The Intermittence of Death” describes a fictitious country in which the inhabitants cease to die and are suspended in an eternal old age, much to their increasing despair.
Posted: November 1st, 2006 | Author: Noah | Filed under: Culture, Latin America, Media | 1 Comment »
Megan has started writing for the local English language newspaper and her first story came out in last Friday’s edition. You can read Day of Dead market is a traditional family affair at the Guadalajara Reporter website for the next week, but when the new edition goes online this Friday the story will disappear in a subscribers only section, so here is an alternate version.
Posted: June 20th, 2006 | Author: Noah | Filed under: Media | 4 Comments »
The same paper (The Guadalajara Reporter) that did a story a couple weeks ago in which I was quoted as a Apple Consultant has run one of Megan’s photos of the World Cup celebrations here in Guadalajara on it’s front page. You can view the article and photo online, but it will be gone in a week. So if it has been more than a week, I saved a screenshot of the page.
