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Media Series: Post 1–Media in Macro, How Information Flows

Friday, March 28th, 2008

How does the media work on a large scale? Why do national events grab the spotlight? If you pay any attention, you see the “it bleeds, it leads” mentality at work in the media. Fewer people bother to go deeper than a cynical comment or two in asking how news is made. That question is […]

Going deeper and asking why.

Monday, March 24th, 2008

It’s fairly easy to just rave on about this or that being wrong with society. It’s even easier to go picking through news stories and columns like a sniper, then tearing them apart and putting them back together again. (It’s also rather fun, and, yes, it can be more than a little instructive.)
Frankly, that’s exactly […]

First Principles

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

The world of journalism, from the blogosphere to the New York Times to Fox News, has come under fire in recent years for journalistic principles (or, all too often, lack thereof).
I thought for a first post, it was only appropriate to lay out the principles by which a good journalist lives. A good blog should […]