Thank you, Mr. president.(Take 2)
Bush surveys bridge, pledges aids
(Yahoo! . . .
Karl Rove, media critic.(DROP CAP)(Brief article)
"When [Fox News Channel's Chris] Wallace argued that
executive priviledge did not prevent [Rove] from answering a
reporter's questions ('Why did you push to fire some U.S.
attorneys in the . . .
Guess Joe Wilson's family wasn't enough.(DROP
CAP)
"He says he wanted to spend more time leaking information
about his family."
--David Letterman, on why noted architect Karl Rove stepped . . .
Covering "the Center of the Known Universe": in
Bucksport, Maine, nearly everybody reads the Enterprise.(DROP
CAP)(Bucksport Ent
It's said that newspapers are dying, circulation is
plummeting, ads are fleeing to the Internet and the young couldn't
care less about them. Well, maybe, but not here, not in Bucksport, a
quiet . . .
Investigative reporting.(DROP CAP)(USA Today and the Washington
Post's story on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's hiring
pol
"The buttoned-down FBI is loosening up: Under a little-noticed
new hiring policy introduced this year, job applicants with a history of
drug use will no longer be disqualified from employment . . .
Kick the can down the road.(Cliche Corner)
"A short-term funding approach allows Democrats to Kick the can down the
road."
(weeklystandard.com)
"Still other commissions enable leaders to feign decisiveness while they
kick the can down the . . .
So why not 29?(DROP CAP)(journalists' use of
'-30-' to indicate the end of an article)
Each October for the past eight years, students in Louise
Reynolds' Introduction to Journalism class at Walt Whitman High
School in Bethesda, Maryland, have been offered extra credit if they . . .
Crowded house: news organizations turn to crowdsourcing to get
readers more involved in the newsgathering process.(DROP CAP)
In the hours after the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed in
Minneapolis on August 1, staffers at the Des Moines Register posted a
message on the paper's Web site asking readers to send details . . .
Probing Pat Tillman's final mission.(THE BEAT)(Mike
Fish's 'An Un-American Tragedy')
Pat Tillman was us, but he was superhero us. He was down-home and
toothy and friendly and well-mannered, that big-jawed California boy we
could so easily adore because he was like us. We rooted for . . .
Against all odds: left for dead by the pundits, USA Today
celebrates its 25th birthday.(FULL COURT PRESS)
A number of themes come to mind on the 25th birthday of Al
Neuharth's improbable Technicolor brainchild.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
One is the power of vision. At a time before "outside the
box" . . .
We the people.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
I take exception to the comments in USA Today by Rem Rieder, editor
and senior vice president of AJR, in response to the CNN/YouTube debate,
in which he claims, "Personal questions are fine as part . . .
Ambush journalism.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Thank you for Deborah Potter's excellent column regarding
"To Catch a Predator" (Broadcast Views, August/September). I
watched it a couple of times and found myself getting angry about the
blatant . . .
Without the "e".(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Hello from the staff of the Boonville (Indiana) Standard. We noted
with interest a recent column of Thomas Kunkel's that mentioned our
home of Warrick County, and some of the local cities and towns . . .
A place at the table.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
I read the article by Sherry Ricchiardi, "Distorted
Picture," in the August/September issue, and it is one of the best
and most comprehensive I have seen on this topic. It is very well done
and . . .
Duke lacrosse saga.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
I want to congratulate Rachel Smolkin on her cover story in the
August/September issue of AJR. I've been reading the magazine for a
long time, and in my opinion "Justice Delayed" is the single
best . . .
White like me: there's too little diversity in the J-school
leadership ranks.(ABOVE THE FOLD)
Awareness can come from the most interesting places. The
Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication represents
the deans, directors and department heads who run the . . .
Dow Jones dilemma: is it a good idea for corporate America to own
the Wall Street Journal?(THE NEWSPAPER BUSINESS)
For a journalist, nothing is more satisfying than knowing that your
newspaper is absolutely independent, free from pressures from
advertisers, religions, unions, business, politicians, governments . . .
The news media's woman problem.(BOOKS)(Selling Anxiety: How
the News Media Scare Women)(Book review)
Selling Anxiety: How the News Media Scare Women
By Caryl Rivers
University Press of New England
168 pages; $24.95
"Selling Anxiety" has little new to say, a fact that,
strangely enough, . . .
Over the line: the questionable tactics of "To Catch a
Predator".(BROADCAST VIEWS)
The "To Catch a Predator" series on "Dateline
NBC" has been a smash hit for the network's news division
since it launched more than two years ago, drawing a substantial
audience and public praise . . .
Cluttered Web: in their efforts to boost advertising, newspaper
sites are junking up their home pages.(THE ONLINE FRONTIER)
To new-media trailblazers, newspaper tribulations sometimes seem
adorably quaint. Consider the controversy over front-page newspaper ads
reported by Donna Shaw in AJR's last issue ("A . . .
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