Universal Hub's new reporter
By adamg - 2/2/11 - 8:12 pm
Say hello to Lexis Galloway, Universal Hub's first ever news intern:
"My name is Lexis Galloway, I am a print journalism major at Suffolk University graduating this year. Originally from Vermont, I currently live in Cambridge and spent my summers in Newport, RI. For fun I snowboard, take photos and go to shows. You can follow me on twitter @lexgalloway."
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Drinking from firehose
Good luck Lexis. Perhaps you're familiar with uhub already and know the, um, personalities that troll^h^h^h^h^hcontribute here?
I have Feb 7th
in the "when will she get her first demand from 'the zak' to publish details of City Council minutes and agenda" pool.
Exactly
Exactly what I was going to say, Michael!
Congrats to Adam, welcome to
Congrats to Adam, welcome to Lexis.
WHOO!
You know you've hit the bigtime when you get your own intern! Hi Lexis! Welcome to UHub.
Have a sister named Nexis?
Welcome! So Adam what are your hazing rituals like? "Enduring endless bad puns and obscure references" can't be considered hazing as it's more the standard working conditions.
thanks!
thanks everyone! I'm really excited, been a fan of uhub for sometime now and look forward to contributing something worthwhile!
time to clean up the language
time to clean up the language people ;-)
Oh and welcome aboard Lexis
That's an awesome byline
Birth name, stage name, or alias dreamed up to obscure your association with Universal Hub and its disreputable gang of commenters?
Welcome, Ms. Galloway
Fasten your seat belt -- there may be turbulence at times. ;~}
This Lexis is the new nexus
This Lexis is the new nexus of UHub. Couldn't resist. Best of luck!
Hi
Great interview with Dan Beyer. Is he as interesting in person as his is in your post?
Another nice touch about your story was the black and white photograph a few days ago of one of his dodecahdrons near South Station, anyway I assume it was his.
Who remembers other sidewalk artists in Boston since Sidewalk Sam?
Does Dan consider himself an artist, an intellectual or a guy with a sense of humor and a hobby?
Welcome aboard
Nice to meet you!
Welcome to the real world of local news.
You may have found the perfect spot for a young journalist. This is a great place to learn to bridge the future of news as we all learn to contribute to the information flow, question what we are told and make our own judgements about who has the important and interesting information.
I agree that theDan Beyer story was interesting and well reported.
I hope Ms. Galloway's personal biases don't creep into hard news
I wish Ms. Galloway great success in her career. Here's hoping that the moderately anti-American and extremely anti-Republican sentiments ("I don’t need anymore republican, conservative bullshit in my life") that she writes on her blog http://lexgalloway.tumblr.com/ don't creep into the hard news reportage at UHub or taint its reputation for fairness.
oh please
just go away and grow up, will you?
Yes, we can only hope
that she will grown up and report, not spout silly inanities scuh as linked above.. Otherwise she should go away... or at least identify as a commentator and not a reporter.
Best of luck, Lexy.
I was going to say something
Like, "Oh, bite me," but that would be exceedingly unprofessional, so I won't.
I suggest you judge her on what she writes here.
I'd stand by Republican conservative bullshit as a journalist
This is typical Republican conservative bullshit. Make a claim without citing the specific evidence so readers can make an informed judgment about the claim. So I'll ask, what do you read as "anti-American" in her Lex' blog?
As far as anti-republican, who can blame her? Were you living during the Bush Administration? We're all still enduring the effects of the great recession that came at the end of his eight craptastic years of Bush Cheney policy. Remember when we invaded a country illegally on fraudulent WMD intel and instituted torture? Admit it, Bush and Cheney should be on the dock for war crimes. Ok atypical Republican conservative bullshit but Republican conservative bullshit nonetheless.
Reality has a liberal bias
.
UHub has a slightly better
UHub has a slightly better record at evenhandedness, than, say, Fox News, so I think you have nothing to worry about
It's o-fish-l
You're an asshat.
+1 (when did personal blogs =
+1
(when did personal blogs = inability to do work professionally, btw?)
Yeah, what?
I mean, unless you're Dooce...
I think there's a difference between "having a somewhat different manner in one's personal and professional life" and "saying stuff in one's personal life that's completely incompatible with doing one's job ethically."
On my blog and with my friends I do a lot of swearing and innuendo and make juvenile comments that wouldn't be appropriate with my clients. So, you know, I don't say such things with my clients. I think this is pretty normal. It would be a different story if I blogged about how the populations I work with suck, my employer sucks, the field I work in sucks, etc.
It's because a few on the
It's because a few on the fringe can not do so (one side much more then the other, their echo chamber and politics is set up to not allow it)
I thinks it's comparable to the guy who cheats on his girlfriend, then is insanely jealous and afraid of being cheated on.
Modifiers
Fishy never paid much attention in school. The sisters would beat him for not knowing the difference between a noun and an adjective. Here the noun is bullshit. The adjectives are republican and conservative.
Ms. Galloway is very right as a journalist to want to reduce the bullshit in life, no matter how modified.
Fishy, on the other hand, appears dedicated to bringing more bullshit into our lives, so long as it may be modified by the adjectives republican or conservative.
802 IN THE HOUSE
Glad Gaffin got a fellow Vermonter up in the UH empire. Best of luck to you, sweetie.
The Tulippe is a Green Mountain Boy?
Well obviously I need to retune my northern New England radar - I definitely had you in the New Hampshire column (Granite State of Mind Style), but then again, I always thought a big part of the NEK is really more like NH and the area around Keene can be more like VT. In any case, I echo your welcome to Lexis.
On a unrelated note, are the NH people still gloating about the Supreme Court case from the 1930s that set the border at the low water mark of the CT River on the VT side? I had a strange conversation with some folks some years back when that nonsense about Killington seceding to join NH was underway.
Hi, Lexis! Welcome Aboard!
Other than the sentiments expressed above, nothing I have to say is worth paying attention to. Just thought I'd let you know.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Welcome
From a long time reader, I look forward to seeing your contributions to Universal Hub.
Welcome
I hope you like french toast, because I hear that's the only thing that they serve in the Universal Hub cafeteria.
Congratulations, and welcome,
Congratulations, and welcome, Lexis! Hopefully this will be a great learning experience for you!
I agree that her personal
I agree that her personal blog postings should not affect her ability to be unbiased. For instance, I would have no problem if she questioned Obama's citizenship or thought that he was an evil Muslim pushing a socialist agenda. I'm sure that would be OK with everyone else here too.
I see what you did there
I believe the phrase you're looking for is "false equivalency."
Yes, facts sure to have a
Yes, facts sure to have a uncanny ability to be facts.
Journalists far too often use false equivalence as a method to appear "fair", when in reality they're throwing accurate out the window.
If it's agreed that 99.5% of people know something and agree, and .5% don't, report that. Don't say Joe says this, but bob says the other.
False equivalency
or double standard? Birther-ism and other unfounded GOP memes invented to discredit the President's legitimacy are ingredients for satirizing O-FISH-L's argument discrediting your new reporter.
A hypothetical situation, surely.....
Most -if not all- of the birthers and islamophobes that I've encountered can't form complete sentences, so would not make great journalism interns. And given that most interns are college students, they likely have worldviews that have evolved beyond such infantile beliefs.
And login you spineless coward.....
Congrats!
I'm new here too!
Um, Yeah, Me, Too
That's what I meant to say above. Pay no attention to postings by folks calling themselves "Kaz" and/or "Suldog" from a year or two back. That was two different guys. We're new and fresh and exciting! No need to have any pre-conceived notions concerning us! No, Sir!
Uh, ma'am.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Others, Though...
Eeka has been here about 87 years. I seem to recall her saying she was born here on this site, and that it's not the same neighborhood it once was. However, she's a lesbian, so we ignore her.
SwirlyGirl is a euphemism. We're not sure for what. Otherwise, she's a decent punster and a total pain in the ass. Or vice-versa.
MerlinMurph is an Irish magician. He once turned me into a horned toad, but I'm better now.
Pete Nice is a cop. I think. Anyway, it's probably best not to toke up when he's around.
Sock Puppet is just that.
Everybody else is a figment of The Kaz's imagination.
I hope this helps. If not, refer to the manual. It won't help, either, but Adam worked so hard on it...
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
I thought it was a newt
> MerlinMurph is an Irish magician. He once turned me into a
> horned toad, but I'm better now.
Beware pythons whenever magically transformed into small creatures.
Oh, get offa my lawn
...
I resent being a figment of
I resent being a figment of Kaz's imagination....
:/
I'm the non-anonymous anon, that points our even logged in users, for the most part, are anon's, but not Anonymous. There's only one Anonymous. ex
Settled? Good!
Welcome to the club! Hopefully you don't get bored with writing about the MBTA or space savers.
Funny thing is...
Nobody calls me "The Kaz", so I'm thinking he actually meant "the zak".
Oh, Crap
Sorry, Kaz. I didn't realize I was dyslexic until this very moment.
Dulsog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
It's okay
I was sorta liking "The Kaz"...it reminds me of...something....coooool.
Aaaaaaaayyyy....
Apologies
Sorry to anyone who thought my personal blog was unprofessional or extremely biased. It is a personal blog for a reason and when it comes down to writing stories, I know how to separate my views from the story at hand. It was purely an outlet to express my views and hope it doesn't ultimately affect how I'm judged as a writer.
Apologies.
Hey, no need to apologize for
Hey, no need to apologize for what you said, wrote, or thought before you came on board here or what you do in your personal life. Especially since any professional knows how to separate personal from work. And extra-especially cause you'll never be able to silence the trolls.
No need to apologize to
No need to apologize to "O-FISH-L".
His run-of-the-mill commentary
is well received at some place
like Red State. Maybe some day
he'll permanently move there.
don't apologize lexis!
... it's not needed. your personal thoughts are just that - yours and yours alone. and i think it's great when people have opinions. heck, if they didn't, then universal hub would just be one big boring news blog without any comments or discussion. opinions make life fun. and i, personally, trust you to put them forth in a professional way. why? because adam trusts you :)
so welcome aboard! just don't start out appologizing, or the freaks here will be expecting it every day ;)
and hope it doesn't
Naw, I'll just judge you as a writer on your misuse of the word "effect".
Just kidding! Lulz.
Don't steal my Anon² tag,
Don't steal my Anon² tag, thanks!
Figure out your own.
Register it then,
dumbass²
Never apologize:
It's a sign of weakness. I'm pretty sure someone famous said that, like John Wayne's scriptwriter - sorry, I forgot - damn, sorry, didn't mean to apologize - oh, damn, there I go again ...
Welcome to Boston's Coolest News Source. Tell the truth and shame the trolls.
don't apologize lexis!
until you have read O-FISH-L's blog.