Oh, It Was The First Day on the Job: Just when we thought the Zoo was doing such a great job keeping media informed about everything involving the train derailment, WLKY’s Ben Jackey filed some open records requests and found that it was the 18-year-old driver’s first day of driving the train. Why is the Zoo working so hard to protect this driver, who obviously caused the accident? WLKY knows, but isn’t telling, who the driver is. And you might want to read a P.R. expert’s take on the Zoo’s response. [WLKY, Dan Hicks]
Our Favorites, On TV, in the Metro Council: It’s going to be hard to not watch and see what questions the Metro Council has for Gilles Meloche at 1:00 today in the Animal Services budget hearings. And even bettter, at 4, it’ll be Corrections chief Mark Bolton, presumably appearing with bodyguards in tow. [Courier]
Proof That You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time: The front page of the C-J features a story on the phenomenal attendance levels at the Creation Museum. It quotes a 7th-grader: “Creation just makes more sense — what’s here just confirms it.” Of course, scientists disagree, like the National Center for Science Eduation — “…students who accept this material as scientifically valid are unlikely to succeed in science courses at the college level.” [Courier]
An Hour on Gaming: WAVE is producing an hour-long special on Gov. Beshear’s plan for, and reaction to, bringing video slots to racetracks, even though it’s still unlikely to go anywhere. It’s at 7 tonight.
Just a Soccer Mom: I appreciate the opinions of Javanon soccer parents and that they want to use that building for practice, but believe they’ve been led astray by the organization’s leader, Ali Ahmadi. This soccer mom makes some good points, but isn’t it odd that she’s never identified? [WAVE]
LEO Goes to Movies: It’s the Film Issue this week, coinciding with this weekend’s much-anticipated Flyover Film Fest. [LEO, Flyover]
Tipping You Off: They’re having that press conference downtown this morning to launch the new citizens tip line, which you’re encouraged to use if you want to report something not quite right in government. State Sen. Dan Seum is out front on it. You can get a real person between 10 and 2 at…ready?….410-1009.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) // Jun 10, 2009 at 12:44 pm
I hope WAVE exercises some, you know, journalism, in that hour-long report tonight. That would be much better than what we would ordinarily expect: corporate-biased cheerleading for new ways to line the pockets of Churchill Downs management.
2 402kid // Jun 10, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Misinformed Soccer Mom. Javanon owner learned more than just how to circumvent (fool), building code folks. He took a page out of ole Jer’s feed the faithful folks with PR fodder, so they can look like fools not me. That saved Mayor Jer many times from making that “I hope they’re believing what I say” smile. Who was that Javanon Mom
3 Zach // Jun 10, 2009 at 7:17 pm
What was the C-J thinking? Of course “creation just makes more sense” to a 7th grader. He’s in 7th grade for God’s sakes!
Thankfully 7th grades usually grow up to be more educated. If my 7th grade opinion was correct about how humans reproduce, mankind would have died out ages ago (763 AD by my estimation).
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