Author: tom

Reporter laments presidential reading habits

This missive was on Romenesko’s letter’s page: From JOHN CHEVES: I don’t know which is more depressing, that President Bush admits he gets his news by scanning newspaper headlines, not reading the stories, or that he probably shares this trait…

Shade-tree journalism

Well, I have to weigh in on the who-edits-the-blogs affair; after all the world wants to know what the editor’s blog blogmeister thinks, right? I’ll draw an analogy: Ed Gilmore, my stepfather, worked for 30 years as a corporate jet…

Rosen on Bee blogs

The Sacramento Bee is getting hipdeep in blogging, and lately it’s been scraping some of the mud off its pantlegs. Jay Rosen has a nice accounting of it all.

Payback is something that rhymes with snitch

Poison Kitchen links to the case of an author who feels a reporter wrote stuff he said that was off the record. His revenge: revealing embarrassing personal information about the reporter.

Good news for Philly

They’re getting a good guy as publisher. Joe Natoli, now our former publisher at the Mercury News, was the first publisher I’ve ever been happy, maybe even proud, to work for. Sure, he didn’t know my name — heck, it’s…

Craig’s in the press box tonight

… with Al Michaels and John Madden. (There’s nothing about Michaels or Madden at that link … it’s to Craig’s advance on tonight’s Raiders-Broncos game on ABC; I just put their names up there because it seems like the best…

OK, another Krugman story

This one in a UK newspaper. One of the things he mentions in an interview is how members of the U.S. press seem unequipped to deal with the possibility that their leaders are blatantly lying to them. I wonder if…