Columns
Pressing Issues
One of the many alarming things about the latest college shooting (especially for someone with a kid in college), is the way the media have treated the issue of the shooter and his guns.
Shoptalk
One of my fellow j-students, a columnist for the campus newspaper, The Daily Northwestern, has written a article suggesting that at least one anonymous quote used by John Lavine in a magazine column defending his new programs might have been fabricated.
Shoptalk
The author commissioned the "Lancet" study recently attacked in a National Journal report and by the Wall Street Journal. He calls the criticism a "hatchet job," fraudulent or based on innuendo.
Pressing Issues
Peter Neesley hoped to bring the strays back to the U.S. from Baghdad where he had looked after them. Sgt. Neesley, 28, never made it home, but his dogs arrived in this country last week after a herculean effort led by family members, with media outlets helping out, too.
Newspaper Beat
Next month marks 20 years since the publication of T.D. Allman's hymn to his adopted hometown, "Miami: City of the Future." Normally two decades are not kind to books that purport to know the future. Titles that looked prescient at the time -- think of all those books along the lines of "The Coming Global Economic Domination Of Japan" -- look silly when they've been out of print for a few years
Shoptalk
A Detroit Free Press scoop on the mayor's affair showed "why daily newspapers with their analysis, investigation and reporting still matter in a free society."
Pressing Issues
There may be nothing to this -- as some suggested after New Hampshire -- but once again on Super Tuesday the exit polls did not line up with results, and Obama once again did much, much better in caucus states where voters have to take stand in public.
Pressing Issues
In February 2003, on a day that will, in the minds of many, live in infamy, the press endorsed, or at least failed to question deeply, the Secretary of State's now-discredited report to the U.N. that put the U.S. clearly on the path to war six weeks later.
Get Me Rewrite
The clear focus on editorial pages is the promotion of ideas and views and, of course, opinion. Some want newspapers to quit backing candidates, but these choices are among the most valid of those opinions and, for many readers, instructive or even nececessary.
Shoptalk
Stagflation ? the combination of falling incomes and rising prices ? continues to lumber towards us.
Pressing Issues
You don't think the war as an issue won't spike in the fall when the "pullout soon vs. stay there forever" debate is raging?
Stop the Presses
It's not easy being in the news business anymore. It requires a great degree of flexibility, and the ability to adapt and change quickly. Too often, newspapers don't make passing grades on keeping up.
Get Me Rewrite
The past few months, and last week in particular, have been rough times for Golden State newsroom leaders. But is any newsroom leader safe today?
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