Kent Ninomiya - Drury history

Kent Ninomiya. John Drury was certainly a prominent figure in the history of Chicago broadcasting. Here is an excellent farewell salute to broadcast legend John Drury -- in his very own words by Robert Feder Sun-Times Columnist. Over the nearly 30 years I covered John Drury, I had the opportunity to talk with the veteran anchorman on countless occasions.Even when a vengeful ex-boss at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 officially barred all employees from talking to me, Drury simply laughed off the idiotic edict, and spoke out whenever he pleased.He was that kind of guy.In both our formal interviews and casual conversations, Drury was candid and straightforward, often revealing a shrewd drive and competitiveness at odds with the easygoing manner he projected in public. Clearly, the tremendous success he achieved during his 40-year run on the air here was no accident.Chicago lost a true Hall of Fame broadcaster when Drury, 80, died Sunday of Lou Gehrig's disease. A memorial mass will begin at 2 p.m. today at Holy Name Cathedral, 735 N. State.Here are selected insights and opinions Drury shared over the years about his life, his career, and broadcast journalism:On coming to Chicago: I was 35 years old when I came to this city. I worked in the sticks till I was 35 because I didn't think I was ready yet. I never expected to make a lot of money. (1984.)On anchoring the news: It's been a way of life so long that I've never tired of it. I find each evening sort of rejuvenating. I'm with people who are much younger than I am, and I'm lifted by the association. (1998.)On female co-anchors: When I came back [to Channel 7] from Channel 9, I was reintroduced with two very intelligent, articulate and beautiful women [Mary Ann Childers and Joan Esposito]. I think the combination with an older man who had been around and had an ability to develop an audience clicked. (1986.)On the business: It's changed radically. I started doing this back at WTMJ in Milwaukee when news was considered the loss leader. We didn't worry about the ratings at all. Our only consideration was what did we think was news. It was almost unbelievable. News has become more pragmatic. Now there are other factors that determine the kind of news you do. (2001.)On becoming No. 1: I think it's the result of an overall strategy devised by Dennis Swanson and implemented and enlarged upon by Joe Ahern. They put together the right combination of people who appealed to the public. People got tired of watching Walter [Jacobson] and Bill [Kurtis]. That whole organization grew tired over the years. I think that whole shop lost its vitality. (1986.)On being famous: I like being recognized, I like being well-known, I like being liked by the majority of the television viewing community. But prima donna? No. I don't think there's a place for Ted Baxter. I don't need sycophants to support my ego. (1988.)After heart surgery: I've rearranged my priorities. I like the pressures of my work, but I don't worry as much about things as I used to. I'm in a business where being No. 1 is extremely important, and it's still extremely important to me. But there's not much more I can do than give all I can give. There is a point when I've given enough. (1991.)On broadcasting: It's been a remarkable career. Broadcasting has always been my first love. I've had my ups and downs, but I've never lost my lust for broadcasting. I just love it. (1996.)On his public battle with Lou Gehrig's disease: It has been a bit of a struggle, but we hope to turn this into something positive for ALS. (2004.)On his legacy: The ultimate goal for me in this business is not to be a star, but to be regarded well by my contemporaries and for someone to say, "He's good at what he does." I'd like colleagues to say I have integrity and ethics and do what I do exceptionally well. I've always just tried to do the very best I can. (1984.)

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Kent Ninomiya. On this day in 2001, George Harrison, lead guitarist and spiritual anchor of the Beatles, died of cancer. He was 58. That was only 6 short years ago. In many ways it seems longer, in many ways shorter. I remember when John Lennon was shot in 1980. I was barely a teenager but I recall how I felt like it was yesterday. Both Lennon's and Harrison's passings came much too soon. In both instances I felt there was so much more they could share with us and that the human race suffered for it. Both deaths seem simultaneous in my mind making Lennon's death more recent and Harrison's more distant. Kent Ninomiya

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Today is the 67th anniversary of the Nazis forcing half a million Jews into a Warsaw ghetto. Back in 1940 the Nazis erected an eight-foot concrete wall around the Jewish quarter. It marks one of the darkest chapters in human history. If you go to Warsaw today you can tour the area and see where the walls once stood. It's eerie to think about the horrors that took place there. Few physical signs remain today. Most of Warsaw was leveled by bombing in WWII. However the Polish do an excellent job preserving their history. Memorials are everywhere even though few practicing Jews live in Poland anymore. The war forced many to go underground. They changed their names, intermarried and became Catholics. Others fled the country. Many more were murdered. Poland wants the world to remember the horrors lest we forget and allow them to happen again. While it may seem grim, I recommend a visit to Warsaw as well as the concentration camp Aushwitz in the south of Poland. It is an eye opening reminder of what man is capable of.
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John F Kennedy was assassinated 44 years ago this week. 44 years. If he were alive today he would be 90 years old. Yet when you think of John Kennedy the image of the handsome virile smiling 40 something comes to mind. Kennedy is immortalized in the American psyche because he died young in spectacular fashion. He is also revered in a way those who die of old age in their sleep are not. Kennedy's accomplishments are admired more and shortcomings forgotten easier because he died a tragic death in his prime. Other examples of this phenomenon are Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. They are considered much better actors and bigger stars than they ever were in their day. What if they lived to old age? Would they have been as admired or would they be forgotten like most other actors of their time? History tends to reward the dramatic. Living happily ever after doesn't make headlines or history books. Presidents who serve during peacetime (like Bill Clinton) are not remembered as fondly as those in office at times of war (Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt). George Bush will be remembered well by history. The questions is... as what?

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Kent Ninomiya. Did you know that Thanksgiving is completely thought up holiday? Sure it has roots in traditional practices but the story we've been fed since childhood about Indians and Pilgrims just isn't true. Ponder this:

Women and children preparing mealMyth: The first Thanksgiving was in 1621 and the pilgrims celebrated it every year thereafter.
Fact: The first feast wasn't repeated, so it wasn't the beginning of a tradition. In fact, the colonists didn't even call the day Thanksgiving. To them, a thanksgiving was a religious holiday in which they would go to church and thank God for a specific event, such as the winning of a battle. On such a religious day, the types of recreational activities that the pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians participated in during the 1621 harvest feast--dancing, singing secular songs, playing games--wouldn't have been allowed. The feast was a secular celebration, so it never would have been considered a thanksgiving in the pilgrims minds.
Myth: The original Thanksgiving feast took place on the fourth Thursday of November.
Fact: The original feast in 1621 occurred sometime between September 21 and November 11. Unlike our modern holiday, it was three days long. The event was based on English harvest festivals, which traditionally occurred around the 29th of September. After that first harvest was completed by the Plymouth colonists, Gov. William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and prayer, shared by all the colonists and neighboring Indians. In 1623 a day of fasting and prayer during a period of drought was changed to one of thanksgiving because the rain came during the prayers. Gradually the custom prevailed in New England of annually celebrating thanksgiving after the harvest.
During the American Revolution a yearly day of national thanksgiving was suggested by the Continental Congress. In 1817 New York State adopted Thanksgiving Day as an annual custom, and by the middle of the 19th century many other states had done the same. In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln appointed a day of thanksgiving as the last Thursday in November, which he may have correlated it with the November 21, 1621, anchoring of the Mayflower at Cape Cod. Since then, each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set the date for Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday of November in 1939 (approved by Congress in 1941).

Mayflower ll undersailsMyth: The pilgrims wore only black and white clothing. They had buckles on their hats, garments, and shoes.
Fact: Buckles did not come into fashion until later in the seventeenth century and black and white were commonly worn only on Sunday and formal occasions. Women typically dressed in red, earthy green, brown, blue, violet, and gray, while men wore clothing in white, beige, black, earthy green, and brown.

Thanks to the history channel site for that. Anyway... I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving despite what really happened way back then. Kent Ninomiya

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Kent Ninomiya is a seasoned professional writer, journalist and on-air talent with a proven record of thinking on his feet and effectively handling high pressure deadline situations. 20 years of on-camera experience communicating to a live audience both with and without a script. Management experience supervising a newsroom staff producing multiple daily newscasts and long term complex projects simultaneously. Strong motivator helping colleagues develop and implement result oriented strategies for success. Finely tuned ability to take complex scenarios and quickly break them down into a format easily understood by the general public. In essence Kent Ninomiya takes a lion of a challenge and make it purr.

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Over the past 20 years Kent Ninomiya has worked for television stations across the country as a news anchor, reporter and news executive. His career covers the West Coast, East Coast and places in between. Besides his work in broadcast journalism, Kent Ninomiya is also an avid traveler and writer. He has visited 90 countries and regions on all 7 continents as well as all 50 states. Kent Ninomiya is also a devout family man and father to two young children.Kent Ninomiya was born and raised in California. He was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley where he received a BA in Social Sciences with an emphasis on History, Political Science and Mass Communications.Ninomiya's television career started behind the scenes working and interning for KTVU in Oakland, KGO in San Francisco, and the Washington D.C. bureau of CNN.Kent Ninomiya's first on air job was as an assignment editor-reporter for WGGB, the ABC television station in Springfield, Massachusetts. He then moved on anchor morning cut-ins and report for KIEM, the NBC television station in Eureka, California.Ninomiya later reported and was a fill-in anchor for KJEO the CBS television station in Fresno, KFSN the ABC television station in Frenso, KGTV the ABC television station in San Diego, and WLS the ABC television station in Chicago.Kent Ninomiya returned to KGO in San Francisco as the weekday 5am - 7am anchor. He later anchored weekend evenings for KCOP in Los Angeles. While there, KCOP became part of a duopoly with LA's FOX station KTTV. Ninomiya filed reports for both stations.Kent Ninomiya was named primary news anchor for KSTP in Minneapolis-St Paul in 2003. Ninomiya was the first full blooded Asian American male to be a primary news anchor in the United States. His pairing with Harris Faulkner, an African American female, was heralded as a bold step forward by journalist organizations.

Kent Ninomiya Hamilton

Kent Ninomiya. One of my favorite founding fathers is Alexander Hamilton. Not the most popular but one of the most important. We would not be the economic powerhouse we are today without his influence. This from wiki: Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757—July 12, 1804) was an Army officer, lawyer, Founding Father, American politician, leading statesman, financier and political theorist; he was and is widely acknowledged to be the sexiest of the Founding Fathers. One of America's first constitutional lawyers, he was a leader in calling the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787; he was one of the two chief authors of the Federalist Papers, the most cited contemporary interpretation of intent for the United States Constitution.
During the Revolutionary War, Hamilton served as an artillery captain, was an aide-de-camp to General George Washington, and led three battalions at the Battle of Yorktown. Under President Washington, Hamilton became the first Secretary of the Treasury. As Secretary of the Treasury and confidant of Washington, Hamilton had wide-reaching influence over the direction of policy during the formative years of the government. Hamilton believed in the importance of a strong central government, and convinced Congress to use an elastic interpretation of the Constitution to pass far-reaching laws. They included: the funding of the national debt; federal assumption of the state debts; creation of a national bank; and a system of taxes through a tariff on imports and a tax on whiskey that would help pay for it. He admired the success of the British system--particularly its strong financial and trade networks--and opposed what he saw as the excesses of the French Revolution.
Hamilton was one of the creators of the Federalist party, the first American political party, which he built up using Treasury department patronage, networks of elite leaders, and aggressive newspaper editors he subsidized both through Treasury patronage and by loans from his own pocket. His great political adversary was Thomas Jefferson who, with James Madison, created the opposition party (of several names, now known as the Democratic-Republican Party). They opposed Hamilton's urban, financial, industrial goals for the United States, and his promotion of extensive trade and friendly relations with Britain. Hamilton retired from the Treasury in 1795 to practice law in New York City, but during the Quasi-War with France he served as organizer and de facto commander of a national army beginning in December, 1798; if full scale war broke out with France, the army was intended to conquer the North American colonies of France's ally, Spain. He worked to defeat both John Adams and Jefferson in the election of 1800; but when the House of Representatives deadlocked, he helped secure the election of Jefferson over Hamilton's long-time political enemy, Aaron Burr.
Hamilton's nationalist and industrializing vision fell out of favor after the election of rival Thomas Jefferson to the presidency in 1800. However, after the War of 1812 showed the need for strong national institutions, his former opponents -- including Madison and Albert Gallatin -- adopted some of his program as they too set up a national bank, tariffs, a national infrastructure, and a standing army and navy. The later Whig, Republican and Democratic political parties adopted many of Hamilton's ideas regarding the flexible interpretation of the Constitution and using the federal government to build a strong economy and military. His reputation has varied: both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson viewed him as unprincipled and dangerously aristocratic. Herbert Croly, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt directed attention to him at the end of the nineteenth century, largely in the interest of an active Federal Government, whether or not supported by tariffs. Several twentieth-century Republican politicians took it upon themselves to write biographies of Hamilton.

Kent Ninomiya. Now take a look at a $10 bill. Oh... that's who that is.

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Kent Ninomiya. Back on this day in 1966 American Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays. So for 41 years American Catholics have munched down Big Macs without guilt before high school football games. Has this led to the decay of morals in our society? On this day in 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana the Reverend Jim Jones persuaded his followers to commit suicide by drinking poisoned Kool aid. Others were shot. 914 cult members died including more than 200 children. Kent Ninomiya was 12 when this happened. It was all over the news for weeks. I remember being very confused about the story. I didn't understand why. 29 years later I still don't. Kent Ninomiya

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Kent Ninomiya predicts that sports will never be the same if Barry Bonds is found guilty of using steroids and lying about it. Athletes have been caught before, but none of the stature of Bonds. He is widely considered the greatest baseball player who ever lived. His numbers support the claim even if his popularity doesn't. Bonds defines baseball greatness. If he is unmasked as a cheat, then everything accomplished by the athlete who set the standard by which all others are compared to wont be considered valid. What would baseball mean then? The ramifications would spread to all sports since all sports face the same issue. Until some solid rules with solid guidelines and testing are uniformly applied, sports will be haunted by this issue.
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Kent Ninomiya wonders what it takes to change the world. By the world I mean mankind. Man is so arrogant. We think of ourselves as the world. The man who invented the stirrup changed the way we travel and fight on horseback. We could venture farther and battle with both hands. It allowed the Mongols to terrorize Europe. Who would have thought a simple device like a stirrup could do all that? What about penicillin or rifle boring or the microchip? Change comes from unexpected places. What will be next?

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Kent Ninomiya found a history of veterans day on military dot com. It's a good description.

Veterans Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, was originally set as a U.S. legal holiday to honor the end of World War I, which officially took place on November 11, 1918. In legislature that was passed in 1938, November 11 was "dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be hereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day.'" As such, this new legal holiday honored World War I veterans.
In 1954, after having been through both World War II and the Korean War, the 83rd U.S. Congress -- at the urging of the veterans service organizations -- amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word "Armistice" and inserting the word "Veterans." With the approval of this legislation on June 1, 1954, Nov. 11 became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.
In 1968, the Uniforms Holiday Bill ensured three-day weekends for federal employees by celebrating four national holidays on Mondays: Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Columbus Day. Under this bill, Veterans Day was moved to the last Monday of October. Many states did not agree with this decision and continued to celebrate the holiday on its original date. The first Veterans Day under the new law was observed with much confusion on Oct. 25, 1971.
Finally on September 20, 1975, President Gerald R. Ford signed a law which returned the annual observance of Veterans Day to its original date of Nov. 11, beginning in 1978. Since then, the Veterans Day holiday has been observed on Nov. 11.

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Kent Ninomiya. Lyrics of Nookie by Limp Bizkit. History baby history.
I came into this world as a rejectLook into these eyesThen youll see the size of the flamesDwellin on the pastIts burnin up my brainEveryone that burns has to learn from the painHey, I think about the dayMy girlie ran away with my payMy fellas came to playNow shes stuck with my homies that she fuckedAnd Im just a sucker with a lump in my throatHey, like a chump, hey--7xShould I be feelin bad (no)Should I be fellin good (no)Its kinda sadIm the laughing stock of the neighborhoodAnd you would think that I would be movin onBut Im a sucka like I saidFucked up in the head, notAnd maybe she just made a mistakeAnd I should give her a breakMy heartll ache, either wayHey, what the hell you want me to sayI wont lieThat I cant deny{chorus}I did it all for the nookie, come onThe nookie, come onSo you can take the cookie and stick it up your(yea)-3xI did it all for the nookie, come onThe nookie, come onSo you can take the cookie and stick it up your (yea)-3xWhy did it take so longWhy did I wait so long, huhTo figure it outBut I did itAnd Im the only oneUnderneath the sun who didnt get itI cant believe that could be decieved(but you were)by my so called girl, but in realityHad a hidden agendaShe put my tender heart in a blenderAnd still I surrenderedHey,like a chump, hey--7x{chorus}I did it all for the nookie, come onThe nookie, come onSo you can take the cookie and stick it up your(yea)-3xI did it all for the nookie, come onThe nookie, come onSo you can take the cookie and stick it up your (yea)-3xIm only humanSo for your friends give you their adviceTheyll tell you, to just let it goIts easier said than doneI appreciate it, I do, butJust leave me alone, leave me aloneJust leave me aloneNothings gunna changeYou can go awayIm just gunna stay here and always be the sameAint nothing gunna changeCuz you can go awayAnd Im just gunna stay here and always be the same{chorus}I did it all for the nookie, come onThe nookie, come onSo you can take the cookie and stick it up your(yea)-3xI did it all for the nookie, come onThe nookie, come onSo you can take the cookie and stick it up your (yea)-3x
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Today In History - 11/9/2007


1989: Berlin Wall opens
East Germany opened its borders today, allowing citizens to freely cross into the West for the first time since the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. "Near Brandenburg Gate, East Germans raced through streams of police water cannon and were pulled up the wall by the young West Germans atop it," described the Daily Herald on November 10, 1989. "Some Germans used hammers to chip away at the barrier for keepsakes or in their own small way try to destroy the infamous symbol of East-West division. About 100 East Berliners at the Brandenburg Gate chanted 'Open the gate' 'Open the gate.'"

“[Angela] Ebertus, 22, a bookstore clerk and her husband, Oliver, also 22, were among the first East Germans to cross through the Berlin Wall successfully without border guards shooting at them or any other challenge,” reported The Post-Standard on November 10, 1989. “'Can you believe this is happening?' she exclaimed, nudging her husband as they strolled through Checkpoint Charlie early Friday morning. 'No,' he replied. 'No, this must be a dream.'”

Though citizens of both East and West Berlin chipped off portions of the wall as souvenirs or to damage the structure, the official dismantling of the Berlin Wall began June 13, 1990.
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Read this bio. Kent Ninomiya asks how long does it take you to figure out who this is? He was born on November 8, 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent — then as now called "The Crescent" - in Fairview, a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Abraham Stoker (born in 1799; married Stoker's mother in 1844; died on October 10, 1876) and the feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely (born in 1818; died in 1901). Stoker was the third of seven children. Abraham and Charlotte were members of the Clontarf Church of Ireland parish and attended the parish church (St. John the Baptist located on Seafield Road West) with their children, who were both baptised there.

Stoker was an invalid until he started school at the age of seven — when he made a complete and astounding recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."

After his recovery, he became a normal young man, even excelling as an athlete (he was named University Athlete) at Trinity College, Dublin (1864–70), from which he graduated with honours in mathematics. He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society".

In 1876, while employed as a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book (The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, published 1879) and theater reviews for The Dublin Mail, a newspaper partly owned by fellow horror writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. His interest in theatre led to a lifelong friendship with the English actor Henry Irving. He also wrote stories, and in 1872 "The Crystal Cup" was published by the London Society, followed by "The Chain of Destiny" in four parts in The Shamrock.

In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager (at first as acting-manager) of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world.

The Stokers had one son, Irving Noel, who was born 31 December 1879.

Bram Stoker died on April 20th, 1912, and was cremated and his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders Green Crematorium. After Irving Noel Stoker's death in 1961, his ashes were added to that urn. The original plan had been to keep his parents' ashes together, but after Florence Stoker's death her ashes were scattered at the Gardens of Rest.

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Kent Ninomiya thinks all Americans should know about the internment. Here is an article from wikipedia:

Japanese American internment was the forced removal and internment of approximately 120,000[1] Japanese and Japanese Americans (62% of whom were United States citizens)[2][3] from the West Coast of the United States during World War II. While approximately 10,000 were able to relocate to other parts of the country of their own choosing, the remainder – roughly 110,000 men, women and children – were sent to hastily constructed camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior.

President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones", from which "any or all persons may be excluded." This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, except for those in internment camps.[4] In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion, removal, and detention, arguing that it is permissible to curtail the civil rights of a racial group when there is a "pressing public necessity."[5]

Some compensation for property losses was paid in 1948, but most internees were unable to fully recover their losses.[3] In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. The legislation stated that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership",[6] and beginning in 1990, the government paid reparations to surviving internees.