So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it.
Lord, let your laughter ring forth.
-Molly Ivins
I am one lucky journo.
So many times in the past 30 years I paused, looked up to the heavens, and thanked the stars that someone was actually paying me to do this fabulous [...]
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Posted in bloggers, facebook, journalism, online news business, texas media, true stories, tagged Dallas Times Herald, designer, facebook, illustrator, Kim Carney, LinkedIn, photographer, Redmond on December 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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Originally uploaded by Something To See
Thanks to Facebook and LinkedIn, I’ve been stumbling across a bunch of not-so-old friends, people I haven’t seen in many, many moons.
Many of them have gone on to do wonderful things while I was in another time zone, doing something else.
That’s the case with my friend [...]
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Posted in bloggers, bush, journalism, news business, texas media, true stories, tagged Ann Richards, Dallas Times Herald, George Bush, Harley-Davidson Motorcycles, media objectivity, Molly Ivins, texas media, Texas Monthly on October 1, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Note: I was asked to be on Nevada Public Radio’s KNPR State of Nevada program on Oct. 2 with host Dave Berns and Marvin Kitman discuss Kitman’s piece in The Nation Magazine proposing that CBS Evening News hire Keith Olbermann, the opinionated host of Countdown on MSNBC. Here’s a link to the audio from [...]
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A ruling today by a judge in Paris, Texas looks to me like it could have serious ramifications for the First Amendment rights of bloggers and whistleblowers.
I first read about the case of The-Paris-site in this article by R. G. Ratcliffe (thanks for the onpass, Willie!):
AUSTIN — Paris, Texas, population 26,490, has become an [...]
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Posted in bush, journalism, texas media on August 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Jay Rosen has some provocative things to say today about how well Karl Rove played the press corps and how, in his opinion, members of the media aren’t writing everything they know about Rove’s wily ways.
I really, really respect Jay, but I think he’s gone coastal on us here — East Coastal. News flash: There [...]
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