Wising up on dumb questions
It’s not just learning that an English newsroom once again pulses to the rat-a-tat of typewriters that has dispatched me down memory lane. It’s also forty…
Rumors deserve a shiver, not a shrug
I’ll never forget my first serious mistake as a rookie reporter. My combination of ignorance and carelessness still drives me to double- and triple-check something that…
Knocked off a stolen high horse
It’s not nice to gloat, but it’s hard not to derive at least some measure of satisfaction from the journalistic squirming going on in the UK’s…
There’s still a place for a true record
Historians face a challenging future. Anyone trying to make sense tomorrow of what went on today will need high-level search skills and a healthy dose of…
Ditching the truth
While it’s fair to say that much of the mainstream media has a liberal bias, it’s a mistake for Christians to write it all off and…
A Miley marker week for journalism
What do you call a week in which the two biggest news items are the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”…
A safety aide for news-watchers
WITH MORE AND more people watching the news than reading it, the time has come to adopt and adapt a safety feature of the auto industry.…
The prince and the paparazzi: Christmas in July
Most journalists say that there’s only a handful of different stories to be written, and after a while all you do is change the names and…
A forgotten journalism hero
He was tweeting before the term was even invented, reaching thousands of people every day with pithy one-liners like, “Pet subjects, if taken out in public,…
Putting your but in the right place
I’m not a big fan of the word but. That’s because it usually means, “Ignore all I said before.” As in, “I really like him, but…”…
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