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| No, Virginia (and New Jersey), the World Did Not Begin in 2006 | One the morning of Election Day, David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s campaign last year, was on NBC’s Today show to plug his new book, The Audacity to Win. But first, co-host Meredith Vieira had to ask him about that day’s elections |
| Getting it Wrong in the Neighborhood." | Anybody who’s been in this business for a week or more has heard the gripe of someone who lost all faith in news coverage the first time there was a story in the neighborhood |
| The Press Pass Shield | Way back when I was still young and green enough to be thrilled to be in possession of an honest-to-God press pass, an old-timer passed on a piece of wisdom. “Having a press pass,” he said, “has kept me out of a lot of places I coulda gotten into if I hadn’t had a press pass.” |
| Reason and Its Discontents | Are we all forgetting something?
Or, more precisely, ignoring something? Well, not entirely, at least not any more. Not since Maureen Dowd’s column in Sunday’s New York Times declared that one reason for the current political tumult |
| Self Knowledge | There are a lot of skills involved in being a good journalist, but here’s one that often gets left off the list: self-knowledge. What kind of journalist are you? What methods are your strengths? What are you not so good at? |
| It’s My Business or, Is the Personal Always Political? | I spent my Saturday in the capital of “The Hoosier State,” Indianapolis Ind. While Indianapolis is a beautiful city worth a visit on its own merits, this was a working trip to lead a panel called “When the Story Hits Home” at SPJ’s national convention. The question we were trying to answer? Can lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) journalists cover issues like marriage, |
| The Shape of the World | Opinions over the shape of the world still differ. So, it seems, do opinions over whether accurately reporting those conflicting opinions constitutes good journalism |
| It's Not a Job--It's an Adventure! | There are times when I wonder at my own presumption, writing a column intended mostly for journalists out there in the trenches. It’s been 13 years since I worked in a newsroom, and those have been some of the most eventful years this industry has ever known. |
| PULP FICTION | Back in 1998, Patricia Smith, then and now a prize-winning poet, was fired by (technically asked to resign from) the Boston Globe because she had been making stuff up. |
| A Horse is a Horse, Even if You Buy It a Beer | I know that we’re all sick of hearing about it, but I have to talk a bit longer about the so-called “Beer Summit.” To his credit, President Obama called out the fact that while it was “… a clever term…” the “Beer Summit” was not a summit.
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| The Devil Is In the Paradigm | Last week the New England Cable Network ran a story on how much of the federal stimulus money was actually making its way to the cities and towns of the region. Not much, as it turns out,
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| A Few Buttons Missing? | It was Samuel Goldwyn who first noted that “anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.” But just going to a psychiatrist is easy. |
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