Westword: "Tabloid Nation" - Michael Tracey Behaving Badly

I couldn't agree with you more, KK. Maybe if we make enough noise, it might be noticed

Yes, Cherokee! What would you like me to do? Just don't ask me to fly anywhere in a plane!

 

Cherokee wants you to board a jet and fly to Colorado to request the public records involving the donation by the Globe.

Then she wants you to fly to her house in Texas and give them to her. Then she wants you to fly to my house in Georgia and give copies to me. Then she wants you to fly to Australia and give copies to Zotto. Then to Utah for copies to Tricia and Moab. Then copies to Scotland via airplane.

Anybody else need Elle to fly copies to you? She's volunteering.

:jester:

hahaha Had to pull your let there, Elle. Do you have a phobia of flying?

 

How about a trip to Brooklyn? I could take you on a NYC tour

Actually, I am going to be in Albany for four days coming up. You could meet me there if you fear the big city oke:

Hey WY, are you near Albany? Should I pack really warm clothing?

 

Hahahahaha! You are funny, KK. I have flown far and wide, most of my married life. I married an engineer, remember? I just hate all you have to do these days if you do fly. It's no fun any more, with all you have to go through.

 

The Tracey investigation has begun. Watch this space.

 

Are you talking to all of us, Barbara? Yes, we'll all come! That'll fix you!
Are you hitting any Casino's there?

 

Sure, no problem. I'll be in a hotel AND they gave me my own, private room this time; no sharing. :genie:

 

Television is God.

 

... and then Elle could fly to Detroit ... and we'll watch MY Tiger's beat the snot out of St. Louis or the Mets in the World Series! Better yet, pick me up BEFORE heading to OZ. I clean-up pretty good, and have friends in OZ ... then back to Detwa for The Series!


...YumYum

 

Oh Yum Yum

The whole city here is on pins and needles hoping that THE METS will be playing in your town!

I see we might just have a leeettlle problem :viking:

 

All kidding aside, If I wasn't in the predicament I'm in right now, I would join you. I need to escape, but can't! Still getting organized after the storm, plus my husband is recuperating from corrective hip surgery done just last month. This storm we didn't need. You're probably there on business anyway.

Have a nice time in Albany, Barbara. I would have paid my own way. I'm not a cadger. I often hear it mentioned on the news.

 

Are we talking baseball here YY? I'm not a baseball fan. My three sons are all into the football scene, so I never hear any baseball talk. You have a good time watching your favourite teams.

 

Ah, yes Barbara ... I see a bruhaha a-brewin'. We EMBARRASSED your Yankees ... and as much as I like The METS (versus the Yankees), I'm afraid that we won't be taking any prisoners.

It'll be cold ... COLD in both towns, so be sure to wear nip-warmers at the game (wouldn't wanna see one pop-off and put some kid's eye out). I have electric underwear to keep ol' Lefty warm (provided that WatchingEWE hasn't wagered him away) by then.


...YumYum

 

LOL Yum Yum

Actually, I'm not a sports fan, unless you count figure skating, but since my daughter and so many others are huge METS fans (and seemingly the rule is that you can't like the Yankees either), of course it is exciting that the Mets may go to the series.

So no, I won't be at any games, but I'll still be rooting mighty hard to see the Mets get a parade!

Bring it on! ...if they win tonight

 

Does anyone know how state-run universities work their donations? In private universities, when someone makes a substantial donation (anywhere from $100,000 up to millions), the money usually goes into an endowment. Say a private university received that $100,000 - they would stick into an interest-bearing endowment, and whatever department the money was intended for would receive the interest to support a particular program. I suppose if the donor wanted the money to go directly to the department or program, that would happen; however, the donation collectors like to talk the donors into setting up an endowment.

Since CU is a public institution, partially supported by the state, I wonder if it works the same. I really don't know.

 

Isn't such knowledge considered public record and open to examination by non univerisity folk?

After all if it is supported by the state of Colorado then the citizens of Colorado have a right to how the funds are spent?


Interesting question WY............

 

Oh, Cherokee, do you know something we don't know? Okay! I'll stay up all night staring at this frame. :-(

 

WY, it looks like Stewart Hoover, interim dean of CU's School of Journalism, thought they would be doing the same thing with the $100,000 "donation" (read "pay-off") from the Globe in November 2000. Hoover said he thought the money invested in the school's endowment fund would "generate about $4,000 a year for additional speakers or other enhancements."

Additional speakers or other enhancements? Like funding for Michael Tracey's one-sided crockumentaries/the Ramseys are innocent commercials?

Why would Tracey say the Institute For Ethical & Civic Engagement received a "substantial percentage" of the $100,000 if the entire donation was made to the School of Journalism and invested in the school's endowment fund as planned by Stewart Hoover, the interim dean?

And why does Peter Simons, director of the Institute For Ethical & Civic Engagement say he hasn't seen "the money"?

Inquiring minds want to know.

The answers are coming.

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http://www.bouldernews.com/buffzone/news/09lrams.html

Tabloid to donate $100K to CU

By Karen Abbott
Denver Rocky Mountain News

November 9, 2000

A supermarket tabloid has agreed to give the University of Colorado journalism school $100,000 to teach ethics, in a deal to get criminal bribery charges dropped against one of its editors.

[snip]

CU journalism professor Len Ackland said faculty members laughed when they learned of the donation Wednesday.

"It's a sweet irony that the Globe, one of the most unethical publications on the face of the Earth, would be supporting a media ethics class," Ackland said.
[snip]

Stewart Hoover, interim dean of CU's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said the money will be invested through the school's endowment fund and is expected to generate about $4,000 a year for additional speakers or other enhancements.

 

Yes, but please don't stay up all night, Elle.

It will probably be sometime tomorrow before I can post the information.

 

Well, well, well ... isn't THIS interesting?

http://www.colorado.edu/iece/news/winter2005.html

According to their official web site, the University of Colorado at Boulder officially approved the creation of a new Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement (IECE) on August 4, 2005. The article on the web site says the Institute was "in development" for two years prior to that date.

So ... that means the idea for the Institute only began sometime in 2003, and it didn't come to fruition until August 2005.

The $100,000 Globe donation was announced in November 2000.

Even IF some of the Globe donation went to help fund the idea of the Institute in 2003 and 2004, and part the actual program in 2005 ... where was the money between 2000 and 2003?

Michael Tracey is gave a false impression to reporter, Patricia Calhoun, by saying that a "substantial percentage" of the $100,000 went to the Institute when the Institute wasn't even in existence at the time of the donation.

Furthermore, Peter Simons, director of the Institute, says he's not seen any of the money.

It looks like Michael Tracey doesn't have his facts straight. (Some things never change.) Or else Tracey deliberately tried to avoid discussing what happened to the money by saying someone else had possession of it.

Would Michael Tracey lie?