Journalism, Technology, History

The real "health care" issue

Is it “health care” or “healthcare?” The red underline in my browser says “healthcare” is misspelled, but sometimes browsers are better at surfing than spelling, especially in areas where popular use is evolving a spelling or word meaning. To slightly...

News is ...

News itself is becoming less of an easily digestible summary of events and more of a grotesque entertainment reality show with heavy emphasis on emotion and sensation and a swaggering comically theatrical sense of its own importance.

Damn, they know how to stroke my ego

Woohoo, I got an email this morning that this blog had been named one of the Top 100 Journalism blogs by The Daily Reviewer, which I wasn’t familiar with, but which seems to be a Web title of Times-Shamrock Communications...

Barn at the end of the road

This is a barn at what was the Stanley family homeplace, where my grandmother grew up in Southwest Virginia. I took it, among others, during a Stanley Reunion this past Sunday at the Caney Fork Baptist Church. This is way...

Disaster is spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T

Lauren Rich Fine on what has happened: “Traditional media failed to realize the competitive challenge created by the Internet as it allows all media to compete directly and without any competitive advantage,” said Lauren Rich Fine, a former media analyst...

Trend lines still perilous for newspapers

Martin Langeveld, analyzing, the latest Newspaper Association of America revenue data: As I’ve argued previously with regard to the NAA’s views on how newspapers are doing in the online arena, where they enjoy less than 1 percent of consumer attention,...

No photo of government transparency available

It’s outrageous that a school board and a state school board association would base efforts to limit cameras at public meeting on an attorney general’s opinion that has been declared unconstitutional. But that’s what the Loudon County (Tenn.) Board of...

Finding news in all places

Jeff Cutler posted this video to Qik.com of fellow panelist Bill Adee, editor of digital media at the Chicago Tribune, during our session on link journalism Thursday afternoon with Publish2 CEO Scott Karp at the SPJ convention in Indianapolis. Adee...

Spotlighting "Sunshine issues" also spurs open government opponents

Ironically, one of the outcomes of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government’s 2004 public records audit, the first such statewide audit in Tennessee, is that lawmakers are filing more bills to close records. In this year’s session, Tennessee legislators filed...
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