A Couple of Bobs
September 27, 2010UPDATE BELOW The hard life of a modern journalist. (Illustration found here). In 1976, when the movie, “All the President’s Men,” was released, I’d been on the job about 18 months as a police reporter…
Category Archives: Media
Another Unknown Known
September 26, 2010Odd is history. What little of history I’ve seen, one truism for sure is that history does repeat itself — what comes around goes around. People who’ve had a strong hand in developing parts-and-parcel the…
News Views
September 14, 2010Although informative and hilarious, the TV news programs on Comedy Central present a stark, and sad reminder of just how bad journalism in general (or honest-to-goodness news gathering) has become in the last few years.…
Krugman at 4 a.m.
August 30, 2010In keeping with the reality of early morning, it’s always a heart-touching, easy embrace to read Nobel Prize-winner and NYT columnist Paul Krugman, especially on Mondays — in a quiet, peaceful pre-dawn it’s hard to…
‘Stupid Is As Stupid Does’
July 25, 2010What? Me worry? (Illustration found here). Since the last time I’d posted, there’s been a shitload of weird, dangerous and dumb stuff happen, but most of it apparently hasn’t had enough stupidity involved to really…
Another Gone
December 10, 2009Highlights the desperate plight of news gathering: Editor&Publisher, an authentic cornerstone of journalism will cease publication at the end of this year. The announcement was made Thursday on its online site. An interview today with…
Crying on the Toilet — ‘Conspiracy, conspiracy…’
October 31, 2009Nearly 50 years have passed since that fateful day in Dallas when JFK was assassinated, and now some new insights have surfaced into those few precious moments in the abrupt transition of presidential power —…
‘Net Virus Hoax as Hoax
October 23, 2009A few scant seconds can mean the difference between truth and a lie. Such as the case of Desiree Jennings, a 25-year-old training to become a Washington Redskins cheerleader, who has claimed the noted swine-flu…
Info Ugly — News-Watching Sucks
October 22, 2009There’s little doubt we’re alive in one of the most-interesting periods in world history as all kinds of nefarious enterprises are starting to come to real-bad fruition — unlike other past-historical upheavals, however (there’s a…
‘Managed’ News
October 16, 2009Journalists covering the White House, especially those from TV, sometimes tend to think of themselves as above the crowd, as better than the average asshole reporter digging for stories down in the trenches. As Nadia…