Read the latest and ask yourself why almost half of the public thinks we have too much freedom. Then ponder how we get it into their heads that freedom of the press matters to people who don’t own one.
Chi Trib stunned to learn bloggers can write
This one (reg. required) was linked on Romenesko … it’s about how some people are blogging their way into mainstream media jobs. (Hint: dish on celebrities and you’ll attract a lot more eyeballs than, say, dishing on news of interest…
Walter Mears writes the book on campaigns
From a review in CJR. It is a puckish survey of the blunders and idiocies political flesh is heir to, and a lament that today’s stage-managed campaigns make it so hard to put gaffes in context. As old cultural taboos…
Buy it for the one you love
The ACES CD of nifty editing stuff. Description: ACES ventures into interactive training with this compilation of more than 130 files on editing and writing, advice to students, discussion of journalism issues and reference resources.
Welcome to Arnieland
Well, they’ve done it. Elected Arnold Schwarzenegger governor of California. Ken, who sits next to me and is the rare desk hand old enough to have been of voting age when Ronald Reagan became governor of this state, insists his…
All journalism is visual
Something that annoys me: when designers call themselves “visual journalists.” It’s a problem of semantics that only a copy editor could love: When “visual” modifies “journalist” it creates a subset. Of course they don’t mean it because they are nice…