Only in Washington D.C. with a couple of hundred of political science majors would you ever find people going after the people that go after people for a living…
We had our 5th day of seminars today and again C-SPAN was on location for the action. The first guest of the day was Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary for the outgoing Bush administration. It’s like everyday the Washington Center just keeps rolling out big shot after big shot of Washington insiders and media celebrities. Today was no different. The students asked her some pretty tough questions regarding the Bush administration and Dana remained very diplomatic.
The next celeb was Ted Koppel, former host of ABC News Nightline, and now Senior news analyst for National Public Radio and BBC. This guy is a media superstar, like the Lebron James of news. He was really no-nonsense and refuted a lot of Dana’s comments. It was cool to see someone not being afraid to offend anyone and telling it the way he wants to.
Near the end of his talk, I whispered to the rest of our team to head out to the lobby to see if we could get a photo with Ted. Unfortunately, heaps of other people did too. We waited outside and finally Ted came out escorted by some of the organizers, and man, these guys were like vultures. The guy escorting him was trying to tell people that Ted needed to leave and I guess there are a lot of Journalism majors out here, but they just wouldn’t let him leave.
Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to get a picture too but I wasn’t going to stick my hand in his face to get it. I mean he’s a great reporter and I respect him, but he’s still just a person. I’m not going to disrespect myself just to be in a picture with him. No picture is that big of a deal.
After Ted left, our next speaker was Clarence Page a columnist with the Chicago Tribune. He was a great speaker and very entertaining too.
After the morning seminars we took the metro to Dupont Circle and took a cab over to the Embassy of Finland for our site visit. Finland is just a small country of population about 5.3 million, but from what I gathered a pretty successful country in terms remaining peaceful and stable. Its education system is also rated number 1 in the world. The funny thing about the embassy was that in the lobby there was a very strange video playing on their TVs which showed this guy rolling (sometimes naked), walking, skipping, and running through the screen for 5 seconds each time, and apparently for one whole year. I didn’t really understand what it was supposed to mean. Might have to follow up on that.
I’ll try to get videos up soon. Thanks for keeping up with us!
We had our 5th day of seminars today and again C-SPAN was on location for the action. The first guest of the day was Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary for the outgoing Bush administration. It’s like everyday the Washington Center just keeps rolling out big shot after big shot of Washington insiders and media celebrities. Today was no different. The students asked her some pretty tough questions regarding the Bush administration and Dana remained very diplomatic.
The next celeb was Ted Koppel, former host of ABC News Nightline, and now Senior news analyst for National Public Radio and BBC. This guy is a media superstar, like the Lebron James of news. He was really no-nonsense and refuted a lot of Dana’s comments. It was cool to see someone not being afraid to offend anyone and telling it the way he wants to.
Near the end of his talk, I whispered to the rest of our team to head out to the lobby to see if we could get a photo with Ted. Unfortunately, heaps of other people did too. We waited outside and finally Ted came out escorted by some of the organizers, and man, these guys were like vultures. The guy escorting him was trying to tell people that Ted needed to leave and I guess there are a lot of Journalism majors out here, but they just wouldn’t let him leave.
Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to get a picture too but I wasn’t going to stick my hand in his face to get it. I mean he’s a great reporter and I respect him, but he’s still just a person. I’m not going to disrespect myself just to be in a picture with him. No picture is that big of a deal.
After Ted left, our next speaker was Clarence Page a columnist with the Chicago Tribune. He was a great speaker and very entertaining too.
After the morning seminars we took the metro to Dupont Circle and took a cab over to the Embassy of Finland for our site visit. Finland is just a small country of population about 5.3 million, but from what I gathered a pretty successful country in terms remaining peaceful and stable. Its education system is also rated number 1 in the world. The funny thing about the embassy was that in the lobby there was a very strange video playing on their TVs which showed this guy rolling (sometimes naked), walking, skipping, and running through the screen for 5 seconds each time, and apparently for one whole year. I didn’t really understand what it was supposed to mean. Might have to follow up on that.
I’ll try to get videos up soon. Thanks for keeping up with us!
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