Monthly Archives: April 2020

Canton ham to celebrate 97th in Arkansas

Posted on April 21, 2020 by admin

BY JOEL THURTELL One of the last articles I wrote before I retired November 30, 2007 from the Detroit Free Press featured my ham radio operator friend Hank Kress, whose FCC-issued callsign is K8KBW. We were neighbors — he lived … Continue reading →

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THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL — underground at the Free Press

Posted on April 20, 2020 by admin

BY JOEL THURTELL Thirty years ago, journalists at Detroit’s two daily newspapers were just waking up to the realities of the merger of their operations into one operation aimed at making a fortune for owners Knight-Ridder and Gannett. No, no, … Continue reading →

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Lowell Kelly, UM, ham radio, and Peace Corps

Posted on April 10, 2020 by admin

BY JOEL THURTELL Thirty-five years ago, I met a retired University of Michigan psychology professor who was in charge of admitting volunteers to the newly-formed Peace Corps in the early 1960’s. And a former Peace Corps volunteer (Togo, West Africa), … Continue reading →

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First Amendment for reporters? Gannett says ‘NOPE!”

Posted on April 1, 2020 by admin

BY JOEL THURTELL Screams from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Those authoritarian Chinese booted our journalists! But Trump expelled 60 Chinese journalists from the US. Do foreign journalists have First Amendment rights? Better question: do … Continue reading →

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