NJN: "You Were Always On My Mind"

by: Bill Orr

Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 01:45:00 PM EDT

Maybe I didn't treat you,
Quite as good as I should have.
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time.

For 40 years NJN was there. During some of the years I would watch it only sporadically, tuning into the big NY stations for news. They told me all about New York City and State politics, but little about what was happening where I lived.

However, as concern for gay rights and HIV/AIDS grew in the 80's, NJN covered local aspects of these stories. They would send a reporter and a film crew to a Newark research clinic to explain the importance of a new HIV treatment, to an ACT Up demonstration, or to a rally for gay rights. All of us with different concerns and at different times came to realize the treasure that was NJN.

Through sound and video NJN was the ears and eyes of events in our state, and so I grew more attached to its coverage. Now a NY station promises even better coverage for us. We will wait and see.

Tonight we watch NJN's swan song. For me I look back with appreciation for the wonderful gift that NJN was and with regret that I did not always support NJN as much as I might have,

If I made you feel second best,
I'm sorry I was blind.
But you were always on my mind.
You were always on my mind.

Bill Orr :: NJN: "You Were Always On My Mind"

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Ruiz, Stack, Gill, Cunningham (0.00 / 0)

What are you going to do about it?

by: DSWright @ Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 18:11:53 PM UTC

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So sad (0.00 / 0)

This should have never happened. There's not much to do now. This is shameful. You made me tear up with that dang song, Orr.

There is no political party to represent me now.

by: HurtPillow @ Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 19:04:22 PM UTC

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Maybe we can make Bluejersey.com the next NJN (0.00 / 0)

But with a liberal soul and democratic values.

There's already an audio-webcast.

Get members to create video submissions, like newscasts, under 5 minutes each, post to YouTube and have the "Blue Jersey News Room".

If we don't stand together, we fall alone
That didn't last long.

by: Couch Potato Politics @ Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 19:33:43 PM UTC

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NJ's hunk of burning . . . something or other (0.00 / 0)

Ah, Christopher J,

That's the wonDER
The wonder of YOU

(sung with heavy sarcasm, of course)

Take a look at you and me
Are we too blind to see
Do we simply turn our heads
And look the other way

by: Nowlan @ Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 20:46:45 PM UTC

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NJN (0.00 / 0)

Actions like this make this site even more important. Blue NJ is now the only true voice for NJ. We all must work to make sure we post articles that are important to NJ. We are all that is left. The establishment can not shut us down.

by: jaykeesler @ Fri Jul 01, 2011 at 03:08:04 AM UTC

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