SAN DIEGO PRESS CLUB TO PRESENT MORE THAN 525 JOURNALISM AWARDS ON OCTOBER 30TH
East County News Service October 29, 2018 (San Diego) – The San Diego Press Club will celebrate its 45th annual Excellence in Journalism awards program on Tuesday evening, Oct. 30. More than 525 awards in more than 180 categories will be presented to print and broadcast journalists and photographers. East County Magazine Editor Miriam Raftery, Contributing Editor Paul Kruze and reporter Jonathan Goetz are among this year’s winners. More than 450 people are expected to attend the event at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation’s Joe and Vi Jacobs Community Center, 404 Euclid Ave., San Diego. About 20 restaurants and 10 wineries, plus several craft beer breweries, will provide refreshments. Admission starts at $65 per person for members. For more information, visit www.sdpressclub.org. This year’s awards program drew a record 1,200 entries, making it one of the largest journalism competitions in the nation. Judges included members of press clubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Rochester, Florida, Cleveland, Orange County, Milwaukee, Tulsa and Alaska. At the event, the Press Club will present three special awards, including: Lori Weisberg, writer, photographer, San Diego Union-Tribune, Harold Keen Award for outstanding contributions in journalism; Matthew Hall, editorial and opinion director, San Diego Union-Tribune, Jim Reiman Award for excellence in media management; Jack Berkman, president/CEO, Berkman Strategic Communications, Andy Mace Award for career achievements in public relations. Weisberg (right), a Southern California native, currently covers tourism and hospitality. She wrote for the Vista Press and Orange County Register before joining the U-T in 1980. Weisberg’s award is named after Harold Keen, who anchored San Diego’s first television news broadcast in 1949 and was described by colleagues as the dean of San Diego journalists. Keen arrived in San Diego in 1936 as a reporter for The San Diego Sun. He later worked for the San Diego Union, San Diego Magazine and KFMB-TV/Channel 8. He passed away in 1981. Hall (left) manages the newspaper’s Ideas and Opinion section, writing and editing editorials, and overseeing op-ed commentary, letters to the editor and a blog called “The Conversation,” which uses social media and the Internet to report the news of the day. Hall’s award is named after Jim Reiman, who served for many years as assistant news director at KGTV-TV/Channel 10. Reiman was considered an unsung hero of the profession, similar to many behind-the-scenes journalists who do not have a byline nor appear on camera. When Reinman retired, the Press Club created the award to honor enlightened media managers and the first recipient was KGTV assignment editor Jack Moorhead in 1997. Berkman, with 40 years of experience in PR, is a member of the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) College of Fellows and has won more than 70 Bernays awards from the San Diego PRSA chapter, plus the national PRSA Silver Anvil Award. Berkman’s award is named after Andy Mace, former public relations manager at Pacific Telephone in San Diego. In 1971, Mace is credited with the idea of starting the San Diego Press Club. He later started his own company, Andy Mace & Associates, with an office at the Mission Valley’s Stardust Hotel & Country Club, now the Handlery Hotel. He passed away in 2009 at age 88. In addition, two college students will each receive cash scholarships at the Press Club event. They include: Lauren Mapp, San Diego State University, $2,500 Joe Lipper Scholarship; Katy Stegall, Southwestern College, $1,000 scholarship from the San Diego Press Club Foundation. Both have been active at their student newspapers. Mapp has served as editor of The Mesa Press at Mesa College and as a staff writer and photographer at The Daily Aztec at SDSU. Stegall has reported for The SWC Sun.
READER’S EDITORIAL: TRUMP’S KRISTALLNACHT
By Tom H. Hastings October 29, 2018 (San Diego) – We are now moving past “mere” voter suppression and voter intimidation. We have arrived at voter assassination. It was almost exactly 80 years ago that the Nazis made their first serious move against their own citizens who happened to be Jewish. It was November 9 and 10, 1938. The Sturmabteilung, that is, the paramilitary Brownshirts, sort of like the Proud Boys plus Robert Bowers plus Cesar Sayoc, ideological killers of Jews and other targets, pulled off the 1938 Kristallnacht, the attack on synagogues and Jewish businesses. They were far more prolific than Trump’s crew, destroying some 267 synagogues located in Sudetenland, Austria, and Germany. Estimates of murders of Jews were 91 at the time but that figure rose later, with more investigation. Trump’s invective, identity attacks, slurs on his critics, and tolerance and even encouragement for physical violence against his opponents are one big permission slip to his more rabid supporters, Sayoc most obviously and Bowers (Tree of Life synagogue attacker) in all likelihood. Cesar Sayoc’s van is plastered with pro-Trump posters and stickers, which is a more-or-less normal position of favor for a politician, but it’s his other signage, his hate posters for Hillary Clinton and Michael Moore and others—all with crosshairs over their faces—that really set him apart. The rage is palpable, visible, and sure enough, he acted on it, sending pipe bombs to that Jew, George Soros, and others. Meanwhile, Trump equivocates, as usual, hinting with no respect for the truth that it’s all the fault of the media, and of Democrats. After the synagogue shooting he was even more outrageous, directly and insanely blaming reporters for the attack. That darn media keeps quoting him, reporting on his tweets, and playing actual recordings of the things he says. How biased! How uncivil! His handlers try to keep him on script and attempt to cage him into sounding momentarily presidential, but it’s buck naked obvious when he is reading someone else’s words—mostly because they are multisyllabic and sensible to a degree. When he’s off script again he’s wildly spouting hate and nonsense, back to his affinity for Alex Jones’ Infowars derangement. Yes, deranged. That is uncivil but accurate. Who besides a seriously sick individual would claim that schoolchildren were not shot at Sandy Hook, and that the pipe bombs discovered addressed to Trump opponents are “fake”? The only case for criticizing “the media” if we are interested in facts is to take much of what is coming out of Fox News with a block of salt. They routinely hint at the sort of disinformation that Trump more actively promulgates. While they are far more sophisticated than Alec Jones the thrust is pretty similar and, since they reach so many, actually much more dangerous to women, to Jews, to elected officials who prefer a social safety net, to Muslims, to patrons of nonviolent resistance, to Mexicans, Hondurans and Guatemalans in flight from horrific violence and so many others. For many years many of us have been warning about the deadly potential for political violence when we have more than one gun for every American and political rhetoric in social media is unrestrained hatred and violent ideation. Now we see it. Your vote for anyone who can help slow, stop, and reverse this decline in decency and erosion of democracy was never more important than right now. Dr. Tom H. Hastings is PeaceVoice Director and on occasion an expert witness for the defense in court. The opinions in this editorial reflect the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of East County Magazine. To submit an editorial for consideration, contact editor@eastcountymagazine.org.
SDSU MEN’S SOCCER TOPPED AT UW 2-0
Source: goaztecs.com Photo courtesy goaztecs.com October 28, 2018 (Seattle) – The Aztec men’s soccer team suffered a 2-0 loss at Washington on a rainy Sunday afternoon. The Aztecs allowed two second half goals in a six minute span and fell to 1-6-0 in Pac-12 play. In typical Aztec fashion, it was a defensive battle in the first half as each team managed just one shot on goal in the first frame. However, SDSU gave up six in the second half, including two goals. Cameron Hogg, who came on to replace Max Watkin late in the first half due to an apparent injury, made a spectacular leaping save to push the ball over the crossbar in the 65th minute. However less than a minute after, UW scored their first goal following a corner. Ethan Bartlow’s header ricocheted over the back of Dane Rozas’ neck and in to the upper left corner of the goal. Six minutes later, UW scored an insurance goal when Scott Menzies finished a great cross from the corner by Blake Bodily. The Aztecs nearly scored in the 81st minute on an Aleks Berkolds’ header following a corner from Pablo Pelaez, but the UW goalkeeper was able to punch the ball away. Pablo Pelaez was the only Aztecs with more than one shot, finishing with two. The Aztecs managed just three shots on goal. Cameron Hogg was saddled with the loss despite five saves in 56 minutes. UW’s Bryce Logan recorded the shutout and had three saves. STAT OF THE MATCH The Aztecs played a season-high 19 players in the match THE NOTE The 11 shots allowed were the most the Aztecs have given up to a Pac-12 opponent this season. The Aztecs UP NEXT The Aztecs return home next week to host Stanford (Thursday) and California (Sunday). Box