Tag Archives: newspapers
‘Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism’
If you’re a journalist — or like me, a journalist on hiatus — you can’t swing a dead, overpaid, short-sighted, publicly craven corporate media executive without coming across some online piece about where the newspaper industry went wrong to wind … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, Personal, What Matters
In which an automated e-mail from my former employer plays an inadvertently cruel joke on me thanks to an ill-conceived subject line
Yesterday, I received an e-mail that I thought would lead to riches … or at least put a few more bucks in my pocket. In my inbox was an item addressed from my former employer the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel with … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, Personal, Weirdness
CORRECTION: Not only do people still think like this, they’re willing to put those thoughts online
CORRECTION (7:16 p.m., Feb. 12): I owe an apology to the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times. Dave Russell, who works on the paper’s editorial pages, pointed out in the comments section that David Cohen’s cartoon WAS NOT PUBLISHED by the Citizen-Times. It … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism

