David Brooks’ column The Age of Innocence is interesting, both for what it says and for what it means. What it says is that the American political system is broken. What it means is that even a columnist at one of the most powerful newspapers in the world lacks the gumption to make his point [...]
Posts Tagged ‘newspapers’
My Thoughts On “The Age Of Innocence”
Posted in America, Politics, World, tagged America, David Brooks, Europe, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy Inaugural Address, News media, Newspaper columnists, newspapers, Politics, The Age of Innocence, World on May 20, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Doonesbury And The Dispatch
Posted in Columbus, Comics, tagged Columbus, Columbus Dispatch, Comics, Doonesbury, newspapers on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Recently Doonesbury featured a series of strips that addressed a Texas abortion law. Our local newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch, decided not to carry the strips. That decision caused some controversy, and the Dispatch‘s editor wrote a column explaining the reasoning for his decision. In essence, his argument was that the Doonesbury strips in question really [...]
Ending Endorsements
Posted in America, Politics, TV, tagged America, Chicago Sun-Times, Fox News, MSNBC, Newspaper endorsements, newspapers, Politics, TV on January 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Chicago Sun-Times has announced that it will no longer endorse particular political candidates for election. The Sun-Times concludes — accurately, in my view — that people don’t pay a lot of attention to newspaper endorsements anymore, that there are lots of other sources of information available to voters now, and that many people just [...]
The Incredible Shrinking Newspaper
Posted in America, tagged America, Columbus Dispatch, Daily Newspapers, Internet, Journalism, newspapers on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kish and I don’t subscribe to our local daily newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch, any more and have not subscribed for some time now. That probably seems strange for a married couple who were both journalism majors in college and who love good reporting, but the reason for our decision was simple — we got to [...]
Non-Journalism
Posted in America, tagged America, Chamber of Commerce, CNBC, Hoaxes, Journalism, News media, newspapers, Ohio State University School of Journalism, Reuters on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today still more members of the news media — in this case, Reuters and CNBC — fell for a hoax. On the basis of a dubious press release, they reported that the Chamber of Commerce had changed its position on climate change legislation. CNBC read the fake press release on the air, and Reuters reported [...]
Ads and Subtraction
Posted in Reflections, tagged law, newspapers on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This article argues for an antitrust exemption for newspapers, so that all newspaper owners can get together and collusively decide to begin charging for on-line content at the same time. What’s interesting about the article is not the opinion — after all, every struggling industry could argue that the path to salvation is allowing participants [...]
Remakes Be Damned
Posted in College, Family, Movies, tagged College, Family, Movies, newspapers, Northwestern on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Richard argues that remakes and “franchise” films should be terminated.
Costumes For A Decade
Posted in Family, tagged Family, modern culture, newspapers, Northwestern on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Richard’s reflections on iconic figures from the 2000s.
Political Hubris
Posted in Family, Politics, tagged Arlen Specter, Family, newspapers, Northwestern, Politics on May 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Richard’s take on Arlen Specter’s party-switch and the Democrats’ reaction to it.
Vegas
Posted in Reflections, tagged College, Family, Gambling, Las Vegas, newspapers, Northwestern on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Richard’s thoughts on Lost Wages.
Laptops
Posted in College, tagged College, computers, newspapers, Northwestern, Technology on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Richard’s column on laptops.
Cartman, Faceplants, Paris Hilton, and President Obama
Posted in College, Politics, tagged Celebrity Culture, College, newspapers, Northwestern, Politics, President Obama on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The latest take from Evanston.
Daily Newspapers
Posted in Reflections, tagged Family, newspapers, Northwestern on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t Drop Your Paper!
Congratulations, Richard!
Posted in Family, TV, tagged Family, newspapers, Northwestern, Star Trek, TV on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We found out today that Richard has been selected to be a columnist for The Daily Northwestern. What a wonderful achievement! His initial column is here — media.www.dailynorthwestern.com/media/storage/paper853/news/2009/04/02/Forum/Webner.Trek.Not.Just.Nerdy-3692860.shtml. The fact that it is about one of my favorite TV shows is just icing on the cake.
Why Newspapers Are Dying . . . .
Posted in Reflections, World, tagged Military, newspapers, World on March 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This article — http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/03/baghdad-in-frag.php – is a good example of why large, daily newspapers face an almost impossible task. Michael Totten has been doing very good traditional reporting — that is, observing something newsworthy and then writing a story where the reader feels like they are almost hard-wired with the reporter’s eyes and ears and [...]
