Articles for June 29th, 2009
Here’s the Video of the High-Speed Chase
The link I posted earlier is now dead. Here’s NBC Channel 5’s video of the crash:
E&Y Anoints 11 Entrepreneurs
The joint was jammed Saturday night when Ernst & Young announced the winners of its regional Entrepreneur of the Year awards competition at Dallas’ Majestic Theater. E&Y’s 11 winners, who were among 34 finalists profiled in the July issue of D CEO magazine, now become eligible for consideration for E&Y’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 national awards,which will be announced in November at a gala in Palm Springs, Calif. Then, if they win there, they’ll be eligible for the World Entrepreneur of the Year awards in Monaco. (No word yet who will represent the other planets in the Solar System awards.) Jump for a list of the locals who made the cut.
Why the DMN’s Mario Tarradell is No Good
I’m not going to mince words here. As long as Mario Tarradell is the lead music critic for the Dallas Morning News, the paper’s music coverage will be an absolute joke. I pretty much stopped reading what Tarradell had to say after his 2008 year-in-music coverage, which was so openly bizarre I assumed he must be playing some elaborate prank on his bosses.
But after Michael Jackson died, I was intrigued as to how he (and the paper) would handle it. The overall piece was mostly perfunctory boilerplate-type stuff. What caught my eye, though, was Tarradell’s accompanying top-five list of Jackson’s “best hit songs” — awkward phrasing, to be sure, but that isn’t the problem.
High-Speed Chase Ends Poorly for Bad Guy
Five of us here at the office just watched the high-speed cop chase on WFAA.com. The chase ended when a full-size pickup slammed into the perp. At which point we all yelled like we’d just seen a great tackle. “Oooowwwwwh! That HAD to hurt.” Except now, watching the video, I can’t imagine how the guy survived. I feel icky for having been entertained by the whole thing.
Update: Out came the jaws of life as firemen and emergency responders tried to get the driver out of his/her car. That took about 10 minutes. Just as they were about to pull the person out, Channel 8 cut the live feed from its helicopter.
Update: WFAA reports the driver survived.
Another Sign of the Times
Remember this guy standing on the corner, looking for a job? Another alert FBvian sends along a similar picture. /freejobprospectingonFB
Malcolm Gladwell to Jim Moroney: “You Don’t Know What You’re Talking About”
An alert FBvian points us to Malcolm Gladwell’s most recent piece in the New Yorker. In the lead, he makes an example of News publisher Jim Moroney, who, in Gladwell’s estimation, doesn’t quite understand the business in which he works. Ouch. (And that goes for all of us who produce for the printed page. Because the transition to free — if that’s where we’re headed — won’t be an easy one.)
Update: Another ouch. Mea culpa. Let’s jump.
Southwest Foodservice Expo: Report From Day One
Yesterday, the Southwest Foodservice Expo opened for a three-day run at the Dallas Convention Center. I spent most of the day wandering the halls with InsideCorner’s Evan Grant. We bumped into this dude. He begged me to put him on the cover of D Magazine. Why? “Because I’m only 25 and already a marketing director,” said Robert E. Drenner, the marketing director of a company that sells giant mixers. Here you go Robert, this is as close as you’re going to get. Details and pictures, including one of Herschel Walker, from yesterday over on SideDish. Comments are complimentary.
Ironic Picture of the Day
A FrontBurnervian sends along the below photo taken near Coit and Campbell. (Note the bumpersticker on the dumpster.)
Belo Gets Into the Real Estate Business
Josh Hixson has the details on DallasDirt about an investment that AH Belo (we assume it’s the newspaper side and not the TV side) is making in SawbuckRealty.com.
Dallas Firm Tries To Fix San Diego Union
DeWolff, Boberg & Associates, a Dallas management consultancy, has been hired to study “process improvement” and provide “greater efficiency” for the newspaper. As if those were its problems.
DeWolff’s case studies on its web site include a biotech company, a steel mill, a call center, and a building materials provider. If you think that Platinum Equity, the new owners of the Union, has just signalled to its investors and the market that it doesn’t have the slightest idea of what it is doing, raise your hand.
Leading Off (06/29/09)
1. It’s time for opening statements in Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill’s corruption trial this morning. It took prosecutors 166 pages to outline the charges of extortion and bribery in the 2007 indictment. For the sake of the jury, I hope that “brevity” was one of the major New Year’s Resolutions in the DA’s office this year.
2. Once upon a time, Ladonna Jones of Highland Village wrote a letter to the Dallas Morning News about how unfair the ticket sales were for the Jackson’s Victory Tour. As a result, she received tickets, an invitation backstage, and a kiss from Michael Jackson. It was a different era–when asked what she remembers most about meeting the King of Pop, Jones doesn’t mention any number of things that automatically come to mind (mainly the nose for me). Instead, she says, “His hands were so big…that’s what stuck out.”
3. Some angry folks weathered the heat yesterday to protest the “excessive force” used during arrests of some patrons of a Fort Worth gay bar outside of the Tarrant County Courthouse. Apparently, seven people were booked for being intoxicated and trying to “grope” officers during a routine TABC inspection. There are reports that things got out of hand, and one guy may have even been hospitalized after the incident. I don’t have a law degree, but I grew up in Beaumont (which pretty much makes me a plaintiff /defense lawyer by birth). My first question here: Isn’t it possible that the bar patrons thought that these were the hot cop strippers Michael Bluth hired to scare George Michael straight (so to speak)? (Apologies if you’re not an Arrested Development fan.)
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