Who We Are

No I am not a reporter on the run looking for the next scoop of the news of the day as I were to live a life from the superman television series which began in the fifties. It's in the month of November the real journalist who race across the continent and that is not including me merely a blogger who looks at what the professional journalist produces on my computer and television screen and I report right here in this journal or blog my findings. It is not every day when I'm consumed by the news but if I am to be legitimate surely I must do what is imagined a journalist should be. Enough of this self justification. I know enough about the news and what makes a successful news media work and that is the concerns of the masses in reaction to the news reporting of those professionally trained journalist.

A Journalist Always Tells The Truth

If this is true then why did I mistakenly blunder and think that the Forty Niners the West Coast Football in the NFL not very known to me and many others are going to be winners and repeat their performance that they so gallantly accomplished under the leadership and coaching of Bill Walsh back in the eighties; I know very little about football yet I was bold enough to think they were in the midst of achieving another dynasty under this new leadership of coach Harbaugh. I do remember our beloved Forty Niners winning the first game of the season thanks to my son a real sports fan of football and the Forty Niners making a successful run in six drives to lead in the game. So impressed was I in that drive I figured they could do at will with their opposition and blow them out the first game of this season. Well they didn't and in their second game of this season they lost! My God did I walk around with my foot in my mouth and I looked pretty stupid. I was so confident they were going to do so well. But let me think this one out. Last week they did blow out what was the team the Buffalo Bills? It might have been them but they did accomplish a blowout. I told you so that I know so little about football. Then you might ask why do I pretend I'm some big shot sports journalist and write as if I'm some sort of authority to the sport of football let alone writing about a nation such as China portraying itself as though China is some sort of superpower? Who do I think I am some kind of politician or economist expert on world affairs? I never said these things. I am neither of these things. In fact none of my contemporaries would waste their time and talk to me about football where I was employed at the Postal Service because I was and still am at a knowledge of this field of football in limited ability. I know nothing. But please no brag here but I did get a hold of Joe Montana, Steve Mariucci, Jerry Rice and the former coach Bill Walsh just before he passed on and they told me all I need to know about our local football team The Forty Niners. For now I will spare you God knows how many times I repeated what I learned from these famous leaders who led a dynasty known as the Forty Niners. So again you might ask as one of my former coworkers asked me what am I a name dropper or someone who associates myself with an important person simply because I happened to reach them on the air and get their views broadcasted? Again I repeat myself I am not a journalist not the kind you may think I am. I do not write for any one person or any newspaper publication nor did any one school train me for any corporate conglomeration as to what I should write. I merely keep a cluster of diaries around but I call them journals because they are concerned with the news of the day and yes I did write them all myself. No one else wrote them for me. I did not copy theses ideals from anyone. Every blog entry is a composition of mine and from no one else. I merely have some ideals I have been promoting in this blog and I do not get paid but I am doing it as Marty Nemko suggested for my soul. The only profit I am making from this blog is from the hope I may be making this world a better place to live when I leave this world. If this local football team can lead their way toward being a dynasty and the nation of China can thrive and be a prosperous nation rather than the embarrassment and the humiliation of this world then we may be seeing China as well as a sports team here in America becoming another dynasty as they both once were. It is time long since overdue that China step up to the plate and lead the way for all nations to share in whatever economical wealth it can produce.

Dynasty

To put it bluntly if you will kindly allow me to mention the fact that the San Francisco Forty Niners a football team out here in the West Coast and the country of China may well be on their way toward another dynasty. Come on you certainly can't take me as being serious as to thinking these losers are in the process of becoming transformed over night as if by a miracle into something they could never be? Yes I am only dreaming and then again a dream would be too good to even describe what may be happening. I must remember a good journal well written is performed without my own personal opinion prejudiced by my own preferences not mindful of how others shall feel. Public opinion counts. A good hard self induced pinched would wake me up from this terrible dream how dare I dream an impossible dream? Ouch!

Chess In The Middle Of The Night Fast Asleep?

I didn't have a good feeling going into this chess game having lost a series of games whatever I did was just not close or good enough to win. Player was rated 1222 and I had spun as low as I didn't want to be and it is three in the morning mind you with a Melatonin downed an hour ago this was not normally a place for me to be but I was in the mood and yes but are not the gambling losers also in the wrong places frequently? A long story short. Opponent lost and although the feeling was there to win I did but from the get go I felt the advantage was to my favor in the opening and my opponent could never recover as close and tight he played the game. Call it a quirk win for me as 99 times out of one hundred in such circumstances...you can already see my mind slipping.

I Heard The News Today Oh Boy

I heard the news lately oh boy about a woman astronaut who passed away. She died at 61 what will it take for us to realize that history does go marching on? I woke up in a trance but no I did not dance or do a prance. The song from the Beatles races through my mind for those of you who grew up in that era and listened to the Beatles sing a song about a man who had figured out how many holes it took to fill the wall and a man who blew out his brains or whatever in a car wreck. Obviously investigative reporting is not what this blog is about but can I sing a song for those things that go wrong? This story captures my attention because her age was near my age I feel no rage I can only turn the page or shall I be more like an animal trapped in a cage with no where to go but into a maddening rage knowing death does stalk us like it or not?

When We Can Participate In A News Story

I never insisted on using this name but naming this blog the diary of Joe from Hercules or Joe from Concord in California would not cut it. Ann Frank the author The Diary of Ann Frank already cornered the market on her diary of the most famous diary or all time in my opinion and I don't think I am too far from the truth. Her story was a living diary story or a reality story it was not fictional. She wasn't dreaming her life away with visionary thoughts of becoming what she could never be but reality lived up to the truth that she would indeed become on of the greatest writers of all time and it was her ambition to become a writer. She did when her diary got published in the old traditional way when at that time there were no computers and not the Internet. Take a look at President Barrack Obama. Did he beat his opponent John Mc Cain by use of the old traditional ways of the past or did he resort to the Internet? I rest my case. Let me put it this way am I a man or a mouse? A mouse I am not. I have a mouse with which my right hand hits when it is both good and bad I do not spare the rod. It is with my sincerest wishes that I write with facts then write stories of fictional themes with nothing to back up my assumptions. When I make a move to form a story on the news or comment on a news story I must be precise and use the most careful thought processes as I do when I make a move in chess otherwise I stand a chance on being cut to ribbons if I do not use the highest skill level I can muster. Yes there is a world of difference in chess and in the world of journalism chess is just a game journalism is played for keeps. I am at awe by those professional journalist I pretend not to be like them but ordinary people should decide who is the best one to write a story. Ann Frank did a great job and will remain so ever more a heroine in my blog. If I fail in this writing of this blog at least I will have done as I believe. Yes these are some of the famous lyrics Whitney Houston sang in one of her very famous songs words I have memorized.

The New CEO Of Yahoo

The man on the radio is discussing this news topic of discussion he is having with the callers. I'm a listener too among the thousands if not millions of listeners. Now that I have established this common denominator what say you why don't we become friends after all we listen to the news from day to day we don't have to agree but then what are friends for? I only know what I know I don't make claims as to what you know and all this is why certain particular news talk shows are so popular and appealing because such radio shows get a cross section of the population who are listeners to call in and the news talk show hosts listens as well to the feedback from the audience. Anyone can call in with a response relevant to the news story. Go ahead call in I'm listening. Make my day. I love it especially when I can recognize your voice and exclaim hey hey I know you just you wait until I can find you in person as I have done to ask you what you meant when I heard you speak on the radio. What is this I came here to discuss the new CEO of Yahoo but haven't thus far? Read on it gets better. Tell me if I am not on course. If this isn't journalism then I don't know what is. I care what the common ordinary person has to say to think to discuss not what a designated highly paid professional journalist has to dictate to me and the rest of the population.

Journals is what I do and keep it is the love for the written word which keeps me writing be it e-mail letters or blogs. A long email letter is forbidden in my world as I have come to learn. Short and precise and to the point the wordy essay or e-mail never goes over well. Take the Gettysburg Address one of the most famous of all speeches was short and to the point. Those few words told the way time was at that time. There aren't too many Americans that get their faces carved into the side of a mountain.

A Stare Of Approval

It was Marty Nemko who suggested I write this blog some three years ago roughly.  He has been known as a career counselor when he had his program on a radio station and for the few minutes describing my background and interest I began writing blogs since writing journals has been my natural  ways for the past twenty or more years.  My coarse of writing about the news wasn't my main choice of subjects that I was focused on but I thought if I were to write about anything I could write something about the news after all a calling strikes at me at my heart of hearts when a radio station tells the listening audience they are interested in hearing from anyone within their audience their  voice and their comment on a particular subject for that time period which is on the minds of that presiding host on the media station.  I responded in like and returned the call to make my two cents worth to the news person hired by the radio station and I've called up different stations as an anonymous person.  But the people who knew me from my day to day activities could recognize my voice no one had to be a private eye or a trained expert in identifying me by my voice.  Various responses and reactions were met and I had critics questioning my intent as to why I would voice my opinion or thoughts about a news story after all was  it not a talk show host already  victimized when his voice of opinion was put down?  Spare me the detail.  As a occasional talk show caller this would be a far cry from being a talk show host made to be on the air on a regular basis.  I think being a police officer would put one in far more harms way than being an occasional talk show caller by   far.  Being a police officer was an entertaining thought.  But I did take the plunge and became an occasional talk show caller....no....wait it wasn't a plunge the appropriate word would be a dip not a plunge.  The stares at me from a few good acquaintances  were enough to keep me doing what I've been doing and those few stares were enough to sustain me to where I am now.  There was no question in my mind that those stares were stares of approval.  If I could articulate myself on the radio with any reasonable viewpoint then why or why could I not put it in writing as well?  After all this is what I enjoyed doing and I felt I was good enough at it to make it a hobby if anything.

It was a voice from heaven that I could clearly hear and the voice said go forward and express yourself in the best way I  could and that I need not worry so much and don't be ashamed of being Asian God forbid it has already been too long in the history books that Asians have lived...well I  need not be a destroyer of human kind.  Oh forgive me I get carried away sometimes as if I could feel important at times.

Defining Journalism

You might say I've been in training to do this kind of reporting not formally where journal students get crammed into classrooms and listen to an experienced teacher who has been there done that and his an image to look up to and study.  An accredited college with a good department of journalism would suffice.  No I was never in those classroom where they teach students how to become journalist.  I  spent eighteen years in the trenches working with postal workers on a crew of eighteen or more on a machine big and heavy and  wide as a locomotive called the LSM  and we were machine operators and more than a half of us were constantly tuned  into a radio news station.  These were real people experienced in other occupations sent here to do a  job and we would discuss the news as most of everyday people do we had to listen to the news or go insane with the same repetitive motions of being a machine operator.  We   became adept at zip codes and streets and addresses it was part of the job but most interesting was on the radio we got  paid to listen to the news or go insane with the  boredom.  No we were not drones a mere extension of a machine but we were people intelligent enough to make sense out of what was being discussed in the news on the radio.   It was the talk show hosts on the radio where I felt as they were talking to me  and in  fact I  would call the radio station where they did the discussions.  It was the news they talked about.  Soon I learned I would become a  part of it and I was known as one of the faceless talk show callers of a news station  with a first name and a city somewhere in the northern state of California.  I was a volunteer not a paid profession as I am now doing volunteer work discussing the news from what I read off the internet and in the web sites surrounding my web site.  I cannot be anymore candid.

If  you notice a little sarcasm in my tone it probably is because of my background.  But yes the news involves everybody most especially it does not involve me this blog is about the world around me it will still be around for a long time forever.  I'm only here for a short while.  The word journalism conjures up the notion of vast distance between nations from here where I am a fixture in  the San Francisco Bay area to places around the world places I have never seen and will probably never see.  In this respects I am the farthest removed from the  professional world of the journalist.  Then would that make me an imposture a con man or a fake?  It would if I continued on and lead you to believe I am a journalist for it simply isn't true.  I gain knowledge from reading the comments of regular every day people like you and me not just from the celebrities from what they have been reported to say.  At the present I enter this blog with the notion I may never make a dime writing but I do this because words and spoken expression are important to me inherent in my culture.  If I slip and fall I know I have imputed too much of my personal aspects into this blog I will refer to this blog as Journalism Reports.  I have no ideal how long this blog will last I am merely responding to the general thoughts of the masses the people who I talk to and read into when they post their beliefs and faith into subject matter.   For all I know this blog could end today for a very wise person told me never write anything about anyone  when the term publishing was mention.  Just how qualified must one be to  publish a blog with the title Journalism Reports?  I venture into unknown barriers far greater than I may know.  I have no experience and I could never rise up into the ranks of the rich and successful yet at this point in my life I concentrate on the impossible by proposing to write about the news stories of the day?  I should give one and all a break and be banished  this very instant if I were smart.  But I never said I was a genius.

Iraq

I know so little about the publishing world this blog is not as active as my other one I thought it would be worth my while and my readers while to keep it alive rather than let it be dormant, abandon and relegated to deletion.  Although I play different chess players from all over the world one of my last  chess playing opponents raised an interesting question to me.  His question to me was why?  My response was why what?  After all I was in a chess format not a chat room but he wanted to know what country I was from a common question in such a chess  playing format.  I am not comfortable being in places where I am out of my means but playing players in chess from different countries around the world online is within my means.  This particular  player said he was from Iraq.  I will not complicate the story but it is probably true            that America the land of the free and the brave is not so loved by other countries as much as I thought especially for what we as Americans did in going to war with Iraq.  It is true we as Americans took out Saddam Hussein.  You might wonder  how I arrive at the conclusion that  you and I did so.  I don't think I moved a finger I did not shoot the leader I never even gave it a thought to shoot the sheriff and most certainly I did not shoot the deputy.

Popular Appeal Is An Intellectual Topic?

The media type has come and gone as was often explained by a certain known talk show host. I cannot name names at this point or for that matter any point. How long this journal will last is beyond me. My other prize blog of which I devoted so much time and thought looks like it may be like a nuclear power plant in the midst of a meltdown. If I can connect with the main spokes persons of the news than I say all the better and I have succeeded to a point. But what this is is a blogger who raises interesting questions I have on my mind as it pertains to my personal point of view. I once thought my blog on chess was going down that it would die. When it does is any one's guess. Nerves Galore is still there even though I abandoned it but come back to it to see if is still there and yes I read the statistics on it. Don't read it says a more experienced blogger if you want it the blog to make money. Do I have to write about the mainstream news and hunt down or wait for that star of the news to come around before my journal can take notice? If I can I will. I will always find something to write about.

The intellectual discussion of the economy may sound drab and so remote to many of us but no no. We cannot say this. We are all involved and yes indeed we are all concerned whether we think so or not. It is the news and I wish to highlight it.

The Competition Will Eat The Contestants Alive-Run

This is how the news begins in the season of the television series American Idol. The first round or the beginning rounds the lack of talent is so God awful that the judges of this contest are often seen making sour faces cringing with horror at how bad the early round singing contestants can be. In the background a killer looms hungry to be there and devour anything in its path the bigger fish the contestant that will be seen and heard and the champion the star of this get together sadly enough for the little fish it will not be seen nor heard of after the first disaster as you can see this is a killer fish a Great White and you might ask what is such a contestant doing in a little pond? The room in this little pond will enlarge it will get bigger and better as the season rolls along and the little fish so to speak must just run along swim if they must for their very own lives for if they don't move they will literally be eaten alive. American Idol it doesn't pick up until the little fishes in the pond get eaten up alive.

Is Google God?

So a mere mortal I am how would I know? Is Google God? My sources come from Google and yes it gives me answers but when I ask God as I know God there are answers given but they aren't ....well you know what I mean. I cannot report back to anyone what God tells me what to do and if I do the boys in the band the man across the street and next door and every which way will look at me strangely because we can only guess what God says to us or consult with a minister when we need the facts or an opinion or something concrete. I am however very impressed by Google at what it does and what other people have to say about such an engine search. It looks up web sites that pertain to my needs and fills such needs. So do you want to know if Google is all knowing and is everywhere as much if not more than God is? I did Google this question up read it absorbed it but did not memorize the answer but only asked questions in which I can get answers I understand and reason with rather than copying down something or anything and not presenting it to you the reading public as if you didn't have any intelligence. We read the news and listen to it for the moral of it all so that we can feel reasonably better with the knowledge that our intelligence is being nourished. So far Google has my vote the name will change but the very fiber of it all ....well I'm at a lost for words. I will find them.