During the horrific week of the Boston Marathon bombings – where the news seem to fly faster than even Twitter – one thing stuck out like a sore thumb: The mainstream media remains the best place to get accurate news. Despite all the cuts, all the closings and the sorry economic state of the mainstream […]
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The Eyes of Lots & Lots of Strangers
March 25, 2013 
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They are watching you. And if you install Ghosterly on your browser, “they” will finally have names. Names like KissMetrics, Quantcast, Google Analytics, ChartBeat and MediaMind. These are just some of the many companies pilfering your data online. They are watching and recording your every click and then selling it to corporations, governments and private […]
Read moreHas Journalism Become Elitist?
March 7, 2013 13 Comments
The answer, unfortunately, might be yes. At one point, only a couple of decades ago, newsrooms were filled with reporters culled from the ranks of blue-collar and working class families. When I started in journalism, newsroom were gritty places. Profanity was not only common, but as permanent as the water stains on the ceiling tiles. […]
Read moreSaturday is the New Friday
March 5, 2013 4 Comments
Let’s face it: The 40-hour work week is dead. And all that blather about 4-day and 3-day work weeks is just that: blather. Workers, especially professional workers, have lost the gains made by labor unions in the 19th and early 20th centuries to win the eight-hour day and 40-hour work week. The Fair Labor Standards Act […]
Read moreJournalism’s Addiction: In Love with Journalists
February 21, 2013 9 Comments
The practice of journalists interviewing journalists has become a pet peeve of mine. So I was irked recently when listening to NPR’s Morning Edition and the host introduced a story about the Egypt reaching the one-year anniversary of Hosni Mubarak being ousted as president. In order to recap the last year and the turmoil Egypt […]
Read moreWill Anyone Ever Pay for Journalism Again?
February 13, 2013 10 Comments
Never giveaway a product if you have to sell it to stay in business. Sounds like a no-brainer doesn’t it? Because guess what happens when no one wants to buy your product anymore? You go out of business. That’s what’s happening to the business of journalism right now. It is slowly, but surely, going out […]
Read moreBTW – Journalism Continues to Collapse
February 1, 2013 13 Comments
Remember 2009? The year that I like to call “The Great Media Collapse.” Layoffs galore. Newspapers folding. Magazines selling for peanuts (remember the $5 million fire sale for BusinessWeek?). 2009 ended with more than 14,000 journalists in the unemployment line and newspaper circulations plunging to the lowest levels since the 1940s. Not a good year […]
Read moreWon’t Get Fooled Again (Except the Next Time)
January 16, 2013 9 Comments
CBS News. Sports Illustrated. The New York Times. ESPN. The New York Post. The Los Angeles Times. All of them – and many, many more media outlets – fooled by a terrible and cruel hoax that could have been discovered with a few phone calls or a search on Google. If this is the state […]
Read moreCNET & the Myth of Impartial Journalism
January 16, 2013 2 Comments
No one loves journalism as much as journalists. Unfortunately this love affair with their own profession – and the imagined pedestal they place it upon – makes them blind to the faults that everyone else takes for granted. Case in point: The tempest in a teapot over at CNET that has journalists – but few […]
Read morePitching Social Content
December 6, 2012 5 Comments
In the swirling storm of social media its popular to frown on the old-fashioned notion of pitching “traditional” media. How many times have you been told that media relations is dead? Well, it isn’t. In fact, it’s importance may be on the verge of a major upswing. First, can we please dispel the term “traditional […]
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