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‘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

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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

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Time Travel Tuesday: A sweeter time for the Milwaukee Journal

I came across these pages from the Aug. 22, 1965, edition of the Milwaukee Journal on Mike Rhode’s ComicsDC blog. He’s spotlighting the pages because of the article on the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, which features … Continue reading

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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

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