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Veterans Day a week long celebration in Boulder, finally Jann Scott’s Journal

Nov 8th

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F-4D Phantom II flown by Ritchie for 1st and 5th MIG kills

26 year old Capt. Steve Richie 1972 back from patrol Vietnam

Boulder has gone all out for Veterans Day this year celebrating every day for a week. It never does that. Boulder usually never pays any respect to veterans, the military or those who serve. If anything Boulder usually disrespects them. You know, hippies, commies and the like. That started to change during the Boulder boulder celebration at Folsom field. And just this year for the first time in decades, the band shell celebration was well attended on Memorial Day. Over the years I have taken a lot of heat from the Boulder Atheist Buddhist leftist crowd for featuring veterans on my TV shows.

Russian MIG 21

20 years ago I had Vietnam flying ace “Steve Ritchie” from Golden on my TV show. He is one of the few who shot down five Russian Migs during the Vietnam war. It was very exciting to be able to talk to a real Flying Ace. The problem was Boulder was horrified that I dare to have an American hero on my TV show. My solace comes from those of you who roll your eyes. General Ritchie took it all in good spirits. “Hey, I lived through the Vietnam war” he said. “Nothing anyone here can say or do to me that compares flying through flack or being shot at by Mig 21s. I am just happy to be on your TV show and share my story for those want to hear.”

But Boulder is changing and the city pays more respect today.

from Americas favorite small city

Jann Scott

Boulder

tomorrow I will write about Sgt Allen Dale June a Marine Navajo Code Talker from Longmont

The Boulder Twitterverse

Dec 7th

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What is Twitter ? I’ve been on twitter shortly after it came online in 2006. Since I am an integral part of the new media revolution ( had the first TV network online and started live streaming TV in 1997) We ( Boulder Channel 1 team) have signed up early for every passing internet media phenomenom: friendster, myspace, face book and Twitter. Twitter is a communication or a community building tool. That’s it.

Who are they ? Tweeps are 18-34 year olds. 55% female 45% male In Boulder they are all white, rich, educated, Liberal, office workers, house wives or students. They sit in coffee houses, on their phones in their cars, or at work and stay connected to the twitterverse which they see as the universe. Except it isn’t. Boomers except for me don’t use twitter. Xers don’t use it either. the Yers who do represent less than 50%. In Boulder Twitter is reserved for a special group of people who, look, think and act alike. It is a closed culture.

Twitter cyber Attacks If you don’t fit into that culture ( I don’t… 65, white, short , bald, opinionated, not liberal and I have a sense of humor…not allowed on twitter.) At least in Boulder, if you don’t fit the above mold, you will be attacked. Since I have a cable and internet talk show, write this column, have my own thoughts, take risks and question the staus quo , I am often attacked by Boulder tweeps. I don’t answer back on twitter anymore though. I answer back on television for the larger community to see. Boulder twitter is like the Russian mafia: a gang of thugs who want to rule the world. I intend on standing in there way.

Nonsense In the larger scheme of things Twitter does not really matter. It is a good tool for communicating breaking news which eventually gets to the rest of us. But how important is it? Really? The language is so short and curt, it is not only rude, it is idiotic. People are reduced to blithering.

Boulder is so Weird Of course we have our little twitter culture here in #boulder, but other areas are completely different. There is a whole world of Hispanic Tweeps who dominate twitter nationwide. There are popular culture tweeps who make up twitter in the USA. Thye are into popular TV shows, pop music, gossip magazines…. not intelligentsia. In that sense Boulder is weird.

OK it’s gossip Twitter is 100% gossip tot he mass world population. There are occasional pieces of good information that come out. I use it to net cast stories like this. We use it to post news and features from Boulder channel 1. But we also use, Digg, linked in, email, Google, the internet. face book my space, keywords, meta tags, tags and categories 20 times a day by 10 different posters. We use you tube, vimeo, BC1 and finally we use the king of all communications Cable Television. Cable is still king even if 20% of the 18-34 year olds in Boulder (approximately 10,000 out of our 220,000) think they are the community. the truth is most people in our city have know idea who they are or what their scene and they don’t care.