When you think you’ve got it bad, imagine yourself on assignment to Liberia. Tech writer David Carr is over there, reporting on how U.N. peacekeepers use technology in the midst of pervasive ruin. He’s got a journal of his travels…
War: who decides the winner
From a WashPost Op-Ed piece, if you missed it the other day: It’s war because our undefeated enemies say it is and behave accordingly. In that stubborn resistance lies a fundamental truth that seems too often to have eluded American…
‘Q&As are more stenography than journalism’
Blanp and company muse on the question-and-answer format, which seems to be infecting a lot more of our pages these days.
My kinda last request
Snopes.com reports on an obit in the New Orleans Times-Picayune requesting that memorial gifts for the deceased “be made to any organization that seeks the removal of President George Bush from office.”
Dallas, get ready
One of those edgy, topical papers aimed at young readers is coming your way.
Insert diversity diatribe here
Just kidding, no way I’m going there. Actually it’s just a link to the head of the NAACP bemoaning the absence of minorities in TV news.