We have taken different roads.
I'm in Louisiana today (figuratively). Doing a little campaign on Internet tax in the state, and have been doing market research, absorbed in Louisiana talk radio and TV shows, and enjoying the Cajun/Creole flair it brings.
In so doing, I was on a media outlet's website, and they had a Washington Times web news service. The young blonde anchor delivering the news headlines was none other than my pal Jilly Badanes, whom I interned at the Situation Room with in DC. She's gone on to work on-camera, and I'm so proud for her.
Which reminds me, I am constantly seeing how far my fellow interns from DC are coming. I was reading up on the Texas Rangers-Yankees series that occured about a week ago, and on the Mark Teixeira controversy. The story I read on MLB.com was written by Brittany Ghiroli, who interned through Young America's Foundation with me. Ericka Andersen, an intern from the same program, is now working in new media on the Hill for the GOP conference, and Michelle Oddis, also from YAF, is now assistant managing editor at Human Events online, and appears on-camera every once in a while giving commentaries on Fox News.
Kinda humbles me, you know? My YAF buddies used to envy ME for my internship at CNN, and my CNN intern pals never got invited on-site as often as I did. Now I'm just in the business of making other people famous and watching my contemporaries get air-time.
... Part of the price one pays to move home to Dallas and not stay in DC as part of the media, I guess.
In so doing, I was on a media outlet's website, and they had a Washington Times web news service. The young blonde anchor delivering the news headlines was none other than my pal Jilly Badanes, whom I interned at the Situation Room with in DC. She's gone on to work on-camera, and I'm so proud for her.
Which reminds me, I am constantly seeing how far my fellow interns from DC are coming. I was reading up on the Texas Rangers-Yankees series that occured about a week ago, and on the Mark Teixeira controversy. The story I read on MLB.com was written by Brittany Ghiroli, who interned through Young America's Foundation with me. Ericka Andersen, an intern from the same program, is now working in new media on the Hill for the GOP conference, and Michelle Oddis, also from YAF, is now assistant managing editor at Human Events online, and appears on-camera every once in a while giving commentaries on Fox News.
Kinda humbles me, you know? My YAF buddies used to envy ME for my internship at CNN, and my CNN intern pals never got invited on-site as often as I did. Now I'm just in the business of making other people famous and watching my contemporaries get air-time.
... Part of the price one pays to move home to Dallas and not stay in DC as part of the media, I guess.