I think I’ve said it here before, but I love sitting at my desk and going through wire copy. It’s not that I didn’t keep up with the news. I always have, but it was delayed, whether by a few hours or days.
Wednesday afternoon, ETSU (EAST Tennessee State University, and I’ll explain the caps in the next paragraph) officially announced the location of its soon-to-be-built football stadium. We streamed it live on the internet.
That’s a pretty big coup for WCYB.
(In fact, we did it again on Friday, when Dolly Parton announced what’ll be new for the 30th season of Dollywood.)
I’ve written about ETSU before in several stories. I usually start with the full name & then abbreviate. I even go to the Web site and link to it, to offer WCYB.com readers a little something extra (and to offer the news source a little free publicity). Unfortunately, instead of writing East I wrote Eastern.
Okay, I was wrong. Nobody said anything for awhile. Probably didn’t even notice (or know). Then, some big, crazy fan (who also tries to make money
Okay, I learned. I’m grateful nobody else thought it was so horrible. Not even co-workers. I hadn’t even heard of the university before I moved to the Tri-Cities. (Have any of you?)
The boss and sports guy-turned-anchor felt the need to apologize. I understand. They’re happy with me, but want to be on the record with readers on social media. It won’t happen again. (They even blamed it on the new guy from Miami!)
Unfortunately, a few hours later, that very same night, I hadn’t learned my lesson. I was reading an email from Twitter about some
One of the stories was a tweet from President Obama. He used an apostrophe in “its” (the possessive, not the contraction for “it is”) when he shouldn’t have. I immediately grabbed a screen shot and mentioned it in my own tweet. I didn’t cut him any slack, like I would’ve appreciated from that ETSU fanatic.
Sorry, Mr. President. (On this, at least.)
Yes, I tweeted it out for a response! Will be close instead of will be closed? (Click on the picture to make it bigger.) What’s wrong with that person? The writer may not be a teacher, but he or she represents the school system at a time when school systems are under attack. (See my blogs here and here for details.) Fox News even has a segment called “Trouble With Schools” as if nothing good goes on.
Yes, I know what I wrote earlier today, but this nonsense from this particular source is ongoing. But it could’ve been worse. At least I didn’t have to read about Jesus or biblical quotes under emailed work messages from school system employees, like I did for seven years. Somebody should police that.
I’ll certainly let you know when I hear back from M-DCPS, and I’m pretty sure I will. They’re all over Twitter wearing rose-colored glasses at @mdcps.
