A young Afghan war veteran, whose family has lived in my district for eight generations, wishes to be my next representative in Congress. He would succeed the imploded former Rep. Eric Massa, […]
Fixing what isn’t broken, redux—The Future of Libraries, Part 1
A while back we discussed some of the incoherent thinking, if that’s actually the appropriate word, surrounding the Borough of Camden’s approach to fixing what they saw as a problem with the […]
Forget Spitzer's errant penis: Think more about CNN's blunders
You remember this tableau, don’t you? It’s Monday, March 10, 2008, and the governor of New York state is standing in front of reporters and beside his stoic wife. In a CNN.com […]
The new news: lean, multiplatform, creative? Is less now more?
Editor & Publisher reported this today: The San Diego Union-Tribune laid off more than 30 staffers on Thursday in what Editor Jeff Light called in an editor’s note an effort to build […]
Bloggers will be 'reimagined' in the future of news. We'll be rich!
So, you’re a blogger. You gettin’ paid for what you write? Nada? Thought so. Me, too. Nada. But don’t worry: Corporate types who run content businesses have big plans for us. They’re […]
If objectivity is dead, then replace it with subjectivity done well
Be objective. That’s the credo my newsroom presented to me, the young cub, four decades ago. But it did not require much time for me to realize that objectivity was merely an […]
We need better news stories, but how will we get them?
The media-reform activist organization, Free Press, has set up a press-bashing site called mediaFail, offering minimal instruction about what constitutes a bad news story versus a good news story. Thus we must […]
Free Press' mediaFail site a bad idea from a good organization
Read a news story you didn’t like? See a news story you think really sucked? See any news product you believe represents a failure of the American news media (no matter what […]
Knockers: a love story in three parts
By Ann Ivins Christina Hendricks: that’s what real looks like, boys. Today, women around the interwebs participate in Boobquake. The brainchild of self-described “liberal, geeky, nerdy, scientific, perverted atheist feminist” blogger Jen […]
Nota Bene #106: [no title due to budget cuts]
“Working for a major studio can be like trying to have sex with a porcupine. It’s one prick against thousands.” Who said it?
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