Atlanta Press Club and National Press Club Look at Journalism's Future

"Atlanta Press Club and National Press Club Take a Look at the Future of Journalism For the first time the National Press Club is taking its programs across the nation to help...

EDITORIAL : OPINION ON CRUCIFIXION

OPINION: Crucifixion is the gruesome manner of punishment during the era of Christ. What about the modern age? Are there no more nailing and hanging over? If in the old era, its applied by hanging the condemned...

Prognosis Dire, political columnist Robert Novak Retires

Prognosis Dire,  political columnist  Robert Novak RetiresThe Chicago Tribune is reporting that Robert Novak has stated that his condition is dire and he is permanently retiring from jounalism.  " ...

Novak Has Brain Tumor Huff Post Closes Comments

"Robert Novak the conservative columnist who broke the Valerie Plame sabotage has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. We hope he is well taken care of. But as usual the" hate in 2008" left at the Huffington Post must...

Breaking: Novak cited after hitting pedestrian

Another celeb races into the news--on the negative side.ABC 7 news now has photos up and additional information."Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning. A...

Kilo's killers caught on CCTV

" THESE are the three teenagers suspected of tossing a ship’s cat into the Thames to drown – caught on CCTV. The two girls and a boy are seen close to World War Two ship HMS Belfast near Tower Bridge, London....

Ghost-Written Journalism: "Hey, I Wrote That!"

There's a great discussion going on this morning about intellectual property and reporting, and this throws an interesting spin on it: What happens when the original article is itself an unattrbuted quote?"Well-known...

"...School District Comes Off As Secretive and Elusive..."

Opinion:"It’s no secret that North Tonawanda Superintendent of Schools Vincent Vecchiarella and the Tonawanda News don’t have the best relationship. Ever since I wrote a story detailing...

[Theo van Gogh and] "Education By Murder" in Holland

Some four years ago, Dutch society was jolted by a savage daylight stabbing of a highly controversial film maker theo van Gogh.Related to Vincent, van gogh had made a name for himself  with an agressive,...

A Mock Columnist, Amok

"Stephen Colbert on Race: "On race: “While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.”"" Recently, Stephen Colbert went on a rant about the horrific evil that is the New...

Nuclear Politics: Taking the A Train

Will Australia ride roughshod over its people, federal and state laws to facilitate the dumping (storage) of nuclear waste from around the globe.About the AuthorDr Alison Broinowski is a Visiting Fellow at ANU and...

Fools and False Prophets

You may find it hard to believe the utterly foolish lies and gaffs put forth as weighty truth in the US print media by the foremost creators of American public opinion.  You may laugh until you cry.  This...

Johnson Plans Challenge to London Mayor Livingstone

"Boris Johnson, one of Britain's best- known Conservative lawmakers, plans to challenge incumbent Ken Livingstone in the 2008 London mayoral election. ``The opportunity is too great, and the prize too wonderful to miss; and that prize is the chance to represent London and...

Can reporters act like citizens in the US?

A recent story about where 143 journalists' political contributions went, got at least three of them fired or dropped from client papers. In a media world where transparency is a by-product of the whole blogs, search, connected, networked communication process, does this make...

GOP/Media Rewrite Iraq War History by Robert Parry

"New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and radio personality Jay Diamond are right to wonder why Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney got away with rewriting a key chapter of the Iraq War history without political reporters raising a peep. Share this...

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