Vanderbilt is indeed providing the forensic exams that aid in prosecution of rapists to the injured and victimized patients who arrive at their hospital. This is good news for Nashville women, who deserve to have accurate information about their options in a time of crisis.

Blog postings about my future employment at KPIX are bubbling up around the sphere:

TV Freak:

In another sign that local stations are embracing new media and new ideas, CBS5 has hired a woman specifically to be a blogger. Yes, Brittney Gilbert joins the station on Nov. 19. Channel 5 officials are heralding her as the first person to be hired by a local station to do the blog thing. In her new role, she’ll “spearhead a new community interaction feature by combing through the many blogs updated daily in the Bay Area, highlighting posts that she finds funny, provocative, insightful or informative on her blog.”

And now beleaguered newspaper TV critics everywhere will begin to wonder: How did it happen that we do this stuff for free?

San Francisco Peninsula Press Club:

Blogs and bloggers come and go, but Brittney Gilbert may be the first blogger hired by a local television newsroom for the purposes of blogging. She has been plying the blogging trade at Nashville’s WKRN, an ABC affiliate, operating the site shown here, Nashville is Talking (Think SFist.com). CBS 5 has announced it has plucked Gilbert out of Music City and brought her to Baghdad by the Bay. She starts Nov. 19.

Susan Young Unscripted:

Now, here’s a job description we never thought would get through H.R.: Local newscast blogger…Blogs. Not just a funny word anymore. It’s a way of life.

Like the weather.

I hear that loud and clear: “Damn, it’s hard to hear criticism, especially when you’re just wandering along the internet catching up on threads you’ve left neglected only to find that you’ve been the topic of conversation.” (Thank Google for Google Alert.)

I’m sayin’! I leave in 11 days!

Lesley cracks me up: “When I told the last kid that I ran out (incidentally, he was about 10, which is old enough to deal with not getting a couple of boxes of Nerds), one of the parents shouted at me, ‘You know, Target’s still open!!’”