The Morning Delivery: Recent Comments

Comment on Obama's Foreign Policy: Americans Learning Another Language

Beth Butler — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:50:02 GMT

As a mom of three and educator of thousands, I love that politicians, journalists and other people who speak to the masses are encouraging Americans to learn a second (and 3rd or 4th) language!

I spend a majority of my time educating today's parents about how valuable early language learning can be to their babies' and toddlers' first five years of brain development.

Hoory! ¡Excelente! Thank you for helping dispel those myths about second language learning that have been around for centuries and need to go away.

Our young children deserve the chance to be prepared for a very global future. Learning more than just English is imperative to their success in this economy.

Happy Educating! ¡Sea feliz educando!

Beth Butler
Founder of The Boca Beth Program

Comment on Obama's Foreign Policy: Americans Learning Another Language

Mike Thorn — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:28:34 GMT

A great site for ESL students is AIDtoCHILDREN.com.

AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a dual-purpose site for building an English
vocabulary and raising money for under privileged children in the most
impoverished places around the world.

Check it out at http://www.aidtochildren.com

Comment on Are Newspapers Headed For The Morgue?

Bill Doak — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:29:53 GMT

Poor Jose. His ungrammatical content reveals the flaw with the "digital revaluation" he is attempting to pitch. Unintentionally, he provides the journalistic Achilles Heel of online news credibility: accuracy, and blatant product marketing embedded as editorial content.
As for the copy editor's college kid, he never should have gone into journalism as a college major even back in the day. Far more useful to get a well-rounded education with a major in core subjects such as math, science, economics or history. Then get an internship at the weekly newspaper in your hometown, still the best college course you can enroll in if you want to be a newspaper person. They even can train you in 'going digital.'

Comment on Are Newspapers Headed For The Morgue?

Jose — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:50:18 GMT

Digital revaluation in print media is worked well. Online readership is increased dramatically from the past three years. All the publishers are presenting their publications through online and some publishers are using the companies like http://www.pressmart.net in distribution of publication over the new technology mediums. Digitization becomes the revenue generation tool for all print publishers.

Comment on When The Clergy Scandal Hit Home

Betty Maurice — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:41:34 GMT

Well said.

Comment on Eliot Spitzer: Crazy Like a Fox

Sarah — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:47:17 GMT

Great story!! I can certianly relate to the scandal... I think it's interesting that men in positions of power often think they are above the law or moral code, whereas women in positions of power seem to feel exactly the opposite and realize they are being more closely scrutinized. We don't often here of this with female politicians... just, weirdly, school teachers??

Comment on Front Page News: Newspapers Close Up Shop

Jo Ellen — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:32:41 GMT

In this case, the absurd, extreme characters work. Keep the story going. Fun read.

Comment on Opening Day: A Time of Fresh Starts and New Beginnings

vic — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:25:31 GMT

A touching piece but it would work better if it was longer and you could tell us some good stories about your sister. And tighten the connection between quitting and opening day. The Jeter stuff is OK, but incidental. The moral is good. This could easily be a magazine piece.

Comment on Johnny Carson and Jane Fonda Behaving Badly

John — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:15:48 GMT

Standard Oil and ITT used to enjoy unrestrained authority over pricing power while dominating a market. They grew to become huge monopolies that seemed to be immune from the constraints of the Sherman Act. Congress should break up the US Postal monopoly due to price gouging and its inefficiency in delivering information. The consequence would stimulate competition in the mail delivery system from several carriers and thereby reduce costs while spurring innovation in technology that would speed distribution. Carriers could be required to pass and maintain security clearance procedures. It is inconceivable, in the present environment of rapid fire exchange of information, that the cumbersome postal system lumbers along, eventually getting important information to its intended source. The speed and reliability of the telegraph replaced the horse. The Internet, if refined to distribute and receive as a secure medium (as banks do)joined with an industry consisting of several carriers, would end the outdated postal system.

Comment on Ed Koch Slams New York Times' Editorial Board Over Hillary's MLK Comments

John — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:45:59 GMT

Yet another citizen can see clearly through the posturing oh Hillary.