Makes you rethink that whole “rock the vote” thing.
Feeling happy? Cheerful? Optimistic? Then clearly you haven’t read the Knight Foundation’s First Amendment study. University of Connecticut researchers interviewed over 100,000 high school students, and found that only half of them believed newspapers...Writing under the influence
You hear about media conspiracies, but boy, you never really expect to see one. We’re now up to three conservative journalists and columnists who wrote their pieces while on George Bush’s payroll — an arrangement they failed to disclose to their...Inaugurantidote.
It’s been days since Bush’s inauguration, and yet the aftertaste persists. (Kind of a mix of sulfur and that waxy taste you get when someone’s been spraying pesticides nearby.) For some, it was the grotesque spectacle of dropping $40 million on a...Where have all the reporters gone?
The irreplaceable Paul Wells has a piece in the latest issue of Macleans on Christopher Waddell’s testimony last November on the state of journalism in Canada. Waddell cites massive cuts in newsrooms and bureaus — some pared back, some closed entirely: The...Indecency? WTF?
In the great saga of the culture wars, an oddity has emerged: a story about a broadcast that didn’t inspire viewer complaints. CBC’s web site carries a story about NBC’s New Year’s Eve edition of Leno, in which one M??tley Cr?ºe member says to...
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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.
