Inquiring Minds

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License for Fun

“[A]s much responsibility as our profession carries, we have a comparative advantage in having fun. Being a journalist is endlessly exhilarating. Most people stop taking field trips after they leave grade school. Journalism is one field trip after another. We can knock on any door and ask questions. And if they don't let us in, we can go around to the back.”

 

  —John Maxwell Hamilton,

 journalist, author and journalism educator, 2002

 

• Editorial Comment: What ever happened to curiosity? Doesn’t everyone ask that simple question: “Why?”

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs on media coverage of the anniversary of 9/11, by columnist Frances Martel? Click here. 

News from our award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café    
• Democratic guv candidate Cooke: ‘Take back control of your state’
by D. Whitney Smith
• We remember: 11 years later, wounds of 9/11 still fresh in U.S. culture, by Natasha Bodily
• Aggie journalists to report Oct. 3 on Ethiopia’s hope, heartbreak
• Waste bin trashers in N. Logan can be fined $1,000, council says, by Jessica Sonderegger
• Nibley resets public hearing on electronic signs for Sept. 26, by Danielle Manley
 • Logan, Utah, makes top-10 (we’re #3!) list of best college towns in U.S., by Ted Pease
• ‘Meet the weirdos,’ dean urges students at USU opening event, by D. Whitney Smith
• Aggie journalism prof’s Washington Post article foreshadows Ethiopian leader’s death, by Matthew D. LaPlante
• Aggie Reports from Ethiopia: Olympic Dreams, Empty Pockets, by Danielle Manley
• Joe’s boat bursts into flames—in his driveway!, video by Ted Pease

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