Overheard in the Newsroom #2064:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Douglas Iris
• Today’s WORD on Journalism on Facebook! Twitter, too! Join up and rant daily.
TODAY’S WORD ON JOURNALISM—Daily smart (mostly) and provocative squibs on the press, First Amendment, mass media, writing, society and (sometimes) fishing. About the WORD. To get the WORD (free!) by email: ted.pease@gmail.com.
PeezPix
Douglas Iris
Total WORDviews
Share The WORD!
I read the news today. Oh boy.
• Don’t Be Seduced by the easy demonstration story, local TV! It’s fake news. MSNBC
• Holidays Past & Present is the theme of the December issue of Senior News.
• Gratitude in 6 Words — Six-word memoirs on what we’re grateful for, NYTimes.
• ‘Clear-Eyed Patriotism’ — Historian Jon Meacham’s appreciation of writer E.B. White, Literary Hub.
• Civic Disengagement — As local newspapers fade, fewer citizens step up in their communities. Nieman Lab
• ‘Don’t Think!’ — Writing advice from Ray Bradbury, Literary Hub.• Trump Rages at the Press Amidst the coronavirus, the president blames media for reporting his words. WaPost.
• ‘Inverse Media Environments’ A Pew survey finds Dems and Republicans see the news very differently. Nieman Lab.
• Threats to Journalism The publisher of the NYTimes says journalism and democracy are in danger, NYTimes. • Ageism Older Americans are 33%+ of the population, but are shunned in advertising images, NYTimes.
• Free Lunch. Only 14% of Americans pay anything for news. Nieman.Org.
• Fox as Trump’s State TV The connection between the White House and Fox is dangerous. The New Yorker
• The News Desert. UNC researcher documents the growing wastelands in America where there’s no news. • Today’s WORD on Journalism on Facebook! Twitter, too! Join up and rant daily.
TODAY’S WORD ON JOURNALISM—Daily smart (mostly) and provocative squibs on the press, First Amendment, mass media, writing, society and (sometimes) fishing. About the WORD. To get the WORD (free!) by email: ted.pease@gmail.com.
Search
About The WORDMAN
- Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff
- Trinidad, California, United States
- . . . veteran newsman, journalism professor, photographer, bogey golfer, dog whisperer, lumbering tennis player, boat lover, fisherman and purveyor of interesting stuff.
Random WORDish HotLinks
- Accidental Language
- AdBusters
- Chancellor & Mears on Leads
- ColdType: The World's Good Writing
- Column: Dumbing of America
- Column: E.B. White—Some Pig!
- Columns: MLK Day & Enduring Racism
- Dilbert
- Doonesbury
- Grammar
- History in Photos
- Journalistic Principles
- McSweeney’s
- Our Miniature Earth
- PeezPix Photography
- Poynter-News U
- Reflections of a Newsosaur
- SPJ Code of Ethics
- The Onion
- The Word Blog
- Wait, Wait! Don't Tell Me!
Blog Archive
-
▼
2009
(176)
-
▼
October
(26)
- History
- Newsroom wisdom
- Journalistic Essence
- Dead Fish & Other Love Notes
- Intellectual Prostitutes
- The Idiot Culture
- Swine Flu?
- Bet on Newspapers?
- Zeitgeist
- I Know News When I See It
- Sick Puppies
- Airheads
- Brave New Panacea
- Fox News to the Principal’s Office!
- Legends & The Man
- Bazaar
- The Writing Habit
- This Just In
- Tweet This!
- Hug a Reporter
- Coherence
- Convergence
- Self-Delusion
- Tools of the Trade
- .Deathly Silence“Much of the media has been bought...
- Hold 'Em Back
-
▼
October
(26)
No comments:
Post a Comment