Category: Scoop
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Some puns for educated minds: 1. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Alelutian. 3. She was only a whiskey
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The Scoopsters have done it again. So much activity going on with NPC members, it’s hard to keep up. Sandy Lender will get the best birthday present ever. She tells us: “I am stoked beyond words. The August/September issue of “Realms of Fantasy” magazine, which hits the shelves in time for my birthday in June,
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Future for TV viewing: Thousands of channels? Cable vs. Direct TV vs. HiDef vs. Fiber Optic? All of the above, some of the above? With the Federal deregulation of the telecommunications industry there is an emergence of effective competition to rising cable prices. More open access to potential competition for cable providers is now being discussed
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In with laptops, texting, Twitter, video cameras, tripods… It was an uplifting and impressive story FGCU journalism students, Alex Pena and Maryann Batlle, together with their professor Lyn Millner, told Press Club members at the March luncheon. Pena, had his own moments of fame, when he exposed what no other news outlet would expose: the ongoing killing
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Authors abound in our group and lots of NPC member chimed in this month talking about new books, NY Times interviews, upcoming movies and even finished road projects. Board secretary Sandy Lender spent a very profitable weekend in Pensacola. She pitched a novel to an editor at Kensington who requested the full manuscript; and
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To all those that attended the "Honor the Free Press" day event. One of the nice things about heading up a program is the support of the membership in making it a success. For those that attended this event, you already know that it was a sell out, but what you don't is that
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The Washington Post can do it, why not the Press Club of Southwest Florida? Hereby announcing a contest for clever "Neologisms". Prize to be announced – and it may be an actual entry, so be very careful. Neologism according to the dictionary has two meanings: 1) a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase 2) in Psychiatry
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Although the Cubs didn't show in Naples, we had a great time at the "Take me out to the Ball Game" luncheon last month. Paul Wachsmith hit a home run lining up Gary Price and Dave Moulton to give us the "inside story' on this timely spring issue and Dave even gave us his