Cooking seemed like the last thing I wanted to do today, as I was a bit under the weather. Speaking of the weather, it had been snowing for a while – the kind that is soft and slushy. Aaron decided that we should pick up some dinner and Noodles & Company was the choice of the evening.
As he ran in to order the food, I turned the radio on and found a station that was interviewing Juan Williams, the Fox News political analyst, who was famously fired recently from NPR for expressing his feelings about Muslims on national TV. Claiming he broke the journalist ethics code, NPR let him go after 10 years of working there.
Juan Williams was giving a speech to some journalist interns at the Washington Center in DC. It was a really informative and interesting interview/seminar and so we listened to it on the way back home from the restaurant. Since Aaron had gotten our food to go, we were about to get out of the car, when we both looked at each other and said, “We could just stay here, eat our noodles and listen to Juan Williams”. And so we did.
He talked about journalism and its various changes throughout the years, his experiences with interviewing American presidents, the various newspapers he worked at and how different it was being an African-American and nineteen and wanting to be a journalist. The students/interns were then allowed to ask questions to which he gave some lengthy and detailed responses. It was insightful and I am sure helpful to those interns that attended the seminar.
It was a fun date – completely spontaneous!
