Back at my alma mater, the journalism school’s faculty and the board of the Columbia Missourian are trying to figure out what the heck to do with a failing community newspaper.
There’s nothing unusual about the situation. Newspapers all over the country are in the same sinking boat and have been for years. Print sales are [...]
Filed under: Media, Such as it is on October 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
As promised, here’s part two of why the media scrutiny of Sarah Palin is perfectly normal.
When you run for public office in this country, you are fair game in the eyes of the media. The American people are electing you to a position of power. You are meant to represent the voice and will of [...]
Filed under: Media, Such as it is on October 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
This might seem smack-your-head obvious, but in all of the defenses I’ve read of the media elite’s “attacks” on Sarah Palin, no one has came out and stated the obvious. Before the announcement that she would be McCain’s running mate, no one in the lower 48 (what they like to call “outside” in Alaska) had [...]
Filed under: Media, Such as it is on September 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m often amazed by the buzzwords and phrases the PR people create. They lend heavy connotation to words that lacked weight before. As a writer, I have to respect their cunning use of language. But “media elite” has always baffled me, so the recent bashing of the media elite sent me to my friend Merriam-Webster [...]
Filed under: Media, Such as it is on September 8th, 2008 | No Comments »