“One thing I was going to tell the media, to give them tomorrow, by the way, is the article in the September 2004 of the Observer written by Eric Celeste. Because a lot of the people who cover us don’t understand the history and environment I came into in 2004. That article does a good job talking about internal politics and external issues affecting the department.”

It pains me to post this.

2. Some people would say that the appearance of the word “some” in a headline is a sure sign of a newspaper covering for a thin local angle on a national story.

3. If a fire breaks out in east Fort Worth, and NBC5 isn’t there to provide “team coverage,” does anybody care?

The study, based on survey data collected in Dallas, found that one in 10 participants — all of whom were classified as obese — were satisfied with their body size and didn’t think they needed to lose a few.

“That is a sizeable percentage who don’t understand they are overweight and believe they are healthy,” said lead researcher Tiffany Powell, a cardiology fellow at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

That routine is, alas, not alien to American Muslim leaders with whom I’ve clashed since. They obfuscate what they really believe and try to intimidate critics into silence with accusations of bigotry. They cannily understand that’s kryptonite to many journalists, who find Baptists scarier than Wahhabists.

Update: Spider Monkey tells me the picture of the sock was “scrapped.”

Lively gave us a figure just a few weeks ago: About $500 million.

Granted, the host committee hasn’t yet released any findings of the official economic impact study that it commissioned. So Lively’s number is probably just him doing what he needs to do at this point:  boost expectations. He’s optimistic that North Texas will come in higher than the record take for Arizona in 2008.

Of course some sports economists cast doubt on any estimates in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The scoring for both publications is handled by an outside firm: Kansas-based Quantum Market Research for the DBJ; Pennsylvania-based Workplace Dynamics LLC for the DMN. One interesting difference is that The News invites a select group of companies to participate while, under the DBJ rules, companies nominate themselves. And curiously, the DMN’s No. 2-ranked company–Southwest Airlines–hasn’t shown up on the DBJ rankings for years. But, one thing’s for sure. The opportunities for company bragging rights–”We’re the best;” “No, we are!”–just doubled around here.

UPDATE: I misunderstood her meaning when Cheryl Hall explained in the Sunday magazine: “The News and Workplace Dynamics invited more than 1,100 companies to participate in our inaugural Top 100. We at the newspaper don’t know which businesses entered.” The DMN says that any and all companies here were eligible to be nominated and to participate.