Something tells me the staff BBQ may be a little more tense than usual this year
When St. Paul Pioneer Press associate editor Mark Yost ran a pretty jingoistic column bemoaning the lack of patriotic reporting on the Iraq war, he may have forgotten a pretty key audience: his own papers’ reporters. And apparently, those reporters are a little...All the news that’s fit to… uh-oh.
I love the New York Times. Partly because it’s such a fantastic newspaper, and partly because, when they screw up, they do it all the way: The Op-Ed page in some copies yesterday carried an incorrect version of an article about military recruitment. The writer,...Worth reading: Mark on Media
Lately, I’ve been following Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media. Written by a former journalist turned Kwantlen journalism instructor, it started as a way to share information with his students. But now its mandate has broadened: The more I read, the more I see...We’re not on a first-name basis with sadistic killers.
Visit the Canoe.ca web site, plow through the Sun newspapers, and count up the number of headlines about Karla Homolka’s release that call her “Karla”. This, from a newspaper chain that positions itself as being Tuff On Crime (TM). Get over the...Of all the books on all the shelves of all their stores, they have to be pushing this one.
It could be a great summer for reading. Lots to choose from. Great new novels, fascinating biographies, insightful works of investigation… …and then there’s the swill that Chapters/Indigo is featuring in the most prominent spot on its front page: the...
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Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
