Bullet-in from the Newsroom

   On a historic Tuesday 2009 when power shifted in Washington and journalists across the world scrambled to put the United States' change into historic context, college students arrived in the newsroom of the Peninsula Daily News. Students explored the "Temple of Truth" as Rex Wilson, executive editor, likes to call it. The senior newsman has worked at dailies from Ventura, California up to Washington. Here Wilson is seen leaning into an Apple monitor about to spill AP stories and photos from a satellite feed that transmits stories and images by the thousands. As an AP member, the PDN pays more than $5K a months for the service. It feeds the AP's appetite for stories and images from the Olympic Peninsula.
   The pincushion of copper points on the screen below Wilson are bullets laying beneath what looks like an AK 47 Kalashnikov. It's a nice reminder that while too much of the world changes leadership at the barrel of a gun, the experiment that is the United States changed its leadership and history with the ballot.