Is there a text in this election?
Oh, brother. Why is this DNC nominating process so hard for the common people to grasp? And why is the misinformation being fueled by the press? I saw the same thing happening when Bill Clinton was...
View ArticleAnnoying little kids at the New York Times
Today, the New York Times is “the annoying kid at the magic show shouting, ‘I know how you did that trick!'” Why did you have to spoil the illusion? Did we really need to know this? Why couldn’t you...
View ArticleFacebook’s privacy mess just a way out of a larger mess that has everything...
It seems that everyone has an opinion on Facebook’s privacy mess and I would be remiss if I didn’t just jump right on the bandwagon and try to grab some limelight (two clichés in one sentence!) Here is...
View Article#TwitterMakesYouStupid – a New York Times challenge
Last night, Bill Keller, Executive Editor, The New York Times tweeted out: “#TwitterMakesYouStupid. discuss” And of course, this started up a firestorm among the twits, many of whom were not...
View ArticleMy little dopamine spritz #twittermakesyoustupid
Last week, Bill Keller (@nytkeller) Executive Editor, The New York Times tweeted out: “#TwitterMakesYouStupid. discuss.” And I wrote a blog post that was a half tongue-in-cheek job application and...
View ArticleThe definitive difference between a real journalist and your sorry blogger butt
Maybe I’ve read one too many rants from know-it-all bloggers about how nobody really needs journalists and how journalism is a dead dying industry, but it really hit home today about the real...
View Article99% does not mean 99 things #OccupyWallStreet
I read the #OccupyWallStreet story in the New York Times this morning and kinda just shook my head slowly. They reported this as if it were a 2011 version of Woodstock, complete with hippy-chicks and...
View ArticleA photo speaks a thousands words and one editorial point of view
On the evening of September 11, 2001, my family piled into the car and we drove to a restaurant to have dinner. During the five mile drive on a mostly deserted freeway, we talked about the events of...
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