Journalism | Journalism
Apr.15.2010
A little bloodshed is good for the news business, particularly if journalism professionals are back to shooting at each other instead of collectively gathering around their own grave, hand-wringing and waiting to be pushed in by a dismissive and disinterested public.
Yesterday, I spoke...
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Apr.06.2010
JERUSALEM — There’s an old Arab aphorism: “A man with a plan takes action; a man with two plans gets confused.” Apply that to the Israelis and to the Palestinians, and the nonsensical sequence of recent events in the Middle East starts to fall into a comprehensible pattern.
It’s not a pleasant...
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Mar.31.2010
Irish Crime by Annette J Dunlea
Published in The Carrigdhoun Newspaper 3rd April 2010 p.24
97% of the Irish population believe crime is spiralling out of control. The illict drug market and associated crime is having a corrosive impact on Irish society. The Annual Crime Statistics show many crimes...
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Mar.29.2010
Informed consent:
I've got this blog on my mind. I think it can explain some things about our culture of Low Fidelity and all that Tiger Woods/Jesse James cheating jazz but I'd have to go a bit wide with it, a bit sociological, rather than psychological. So, it's going to be a bit long. I'll have...
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Mar.12.2010
Sources Say Tribune Co. CEO Bans "Journalese" Phrases For News Anchors, Folks By Alex Alvarez on Mar 11, 2010 01:10 PM
Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels is sick and tired of your empty "lingo" and cliched phrasing, people.
Michaels took it upon himself to release a list of 119...
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Mar.11.2010
If you've ever wondered how cable news is generated and produced, don't miss this rib-tickling video from those fine folks at The Onion, one of the few consistent sources of humor around today...
...except, of course, for cable news channels themselves.
It's online at:
http://www.youtube.com/...
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Mar.06.2010
National Public Radio foreign correspondent Eric Weiner used to have a list of seven ways for journalists to grow old gracefully. His premise, which is self-evident to anyone who’s been a reporter, was that daily news was an undignified thing to be doing in your 40s. I can’t remember the whole of...
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Feb.24.2010
The dead man's mother raged and cried as she told me how she’d discovered her son’s body, in the cabbage patch outside her home. She’d lowered herself onto her knees, she said, touched his blood and wiped her fingers on her face and called out that God is most great.
As the winter wind came cold...
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Feb.23.2010
Memo
To the Attention of:
The Very Late Mr. Shakespeare or whoever wrote those plays, sonnets.
Oh, you know what I mean.
CC: The equally but not as late Mr. Nash.
Subject: What you may have worried about occasionally but for decades I have worried about constantly.
You had the...
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Feb.22.2010
It’s lazy, that’s why -- Overuse of indefinite pronoun muddies communication.By Penney Kome
It’s the introduction to half the articles I receive. It’s supposed to be teasing, tantalizing, an invitation to explore its mysteries. In fact, it’s just annoying to me, and (I venture) to most readers.
I...
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