It was the late 1970s and the age of home computers had just begun. Soon, computers would run entire households: turning on lights, doing your taxes, balancing your checkbook and even preparing your meals. They would do every menial task using a chip the same size as the one existing in pocket calculators, but with [...]
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Faux news: City council lullaby
OAKLAND– City council meetings were called ‘boring as hell’ by citizens attending an Oakland meeting last Tuesday.
Citizens were seen nodding off and even completely asleep during the Oakland city council meeting Tuesday night. They blame the dullness of the speakers and the boring atmosphere of the room for their drowsiness.
One attendee, hoping to voice his [...]
Journalist Passes On Knowledge To Students
Reporter George W. Schulz urged journalism students to develop investigative skills in a lecture given at San Francisco State University on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009.
Schulz told the students that these skills would make getting the information one needs for a story much easier. He also said these skills would allow them to find stories that [...]