bumblingmumbler

SO I thought I'd share my day's worth of events.

1.  Class #2 of the day.  8th grade students.  I'm leading a repeat excercise for all the students.  And because everyone is..like always...tired... there wasn't really much response from the students.  However, in the middle of my repeating, I got "concho'ed" by one of the students from behind.  I wont go into details what this is, but I will simply say that it isn't pleasant.

2. Class #3 of the day.  7th grade students.  I was walking around helping people with a simple English essay.  Students on occasion would ask me questions.  I enjoy having questions asks.  Two students were pointing to a student like the student had a question.  I walked up to the student whose back was facing me.  When she turned around, she saw me... and then she screamed in a very inconveniently loud voice.  I don't think she had a question.

3. During soji time.  A student told me his name was Jackson.  Way to inappropriately early for that joke bud.  Give it a few more months.

4.  After soji time.  I saw an 8th grader being forcefully dragged into the teacher's room.  As soon as he entered the teacher's room he stopped dragging his feet and looked quite dignified as he started gleefully sharing a story while presenting interesting pieces of evidence.  As it was, he had just been picked on by another student and had been dragged to the teacher's office by the teacher so that he could rat him out.  The irony of all this?  The student that got dragged in to the room is as tall as me...while the student that picked on him is about 3 feet tall.  I love Japan.

Now I get to go listen to people prepare for an English Speech Competition.  It is definitely my favorite and most rewarding part of this job.  Yippeee.

I know its feasible to look at every news source and automatically assume a political bias...  But the difference between biased reporting and lying should be recognized...  I mean come on, if Fox news keeps going towards a far right or neoconservative bias, that is permissible.  But if the network wants to simply start lying, I feel like it should be punished shouldn't it?  Twenty years ago accountability existed... but does it exist anymore?  I don't think it does.

This is just a quick video clip of CNN responding to Fox's ad that CNN did nothing during the Sep. 12th march. Obviously the Democratic party that is holding on to power right now in the White House can't do much, so I guess the only people that can respond are the other news agencies.... There really is no way for Fox to lose is there, though?

Campbell Brown on Fox ad: "Sometimes they do forget there is a difference between covering an event and promoting it" | Media Matters for America