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PJ O’Rourke stands out as one of the most articulate writers on the scene. Here is an interview with him from PR Week, about reporting and the public view of reporters. O’Rourke: If you would have told me 30 years ago that journalism could get worse, I would have called […]

This from USA Today “For instance, the technology could have a profound impact on garbage. Never again would you have to sort recyclables from other garbage. Just throw it all together. At a garbage facility, trucks could dump their loads on a conveyor belt that goes past an RFID reader, […]

Lawrence, Kansas is a liberal town, with a leg up on the internet enabled home news experience. The publishers of the local paper there were clever, they own the company that puts in the cable tv and high speed internet wires. So they have an 80% cable coverage, and have […]

Tina Brown used to edit Joe Klein’s stories when she was at Vanity Fair, and recently columned in the Washington Post about his new anti-Hillary tome. She knows him, and thus is qualified to judge what’s behind this book, full of weird and wacky assertions about the former first couple. […]

Some things you are going to hear more about…and you heard about them here first. Reporting from the Dolphin Hotel, Nantucket. Europe is all abuzz about the Polish Plumber. A publicity campaign featuring a hunky Polish Plumber is a jab at comments in France expressing fears that plumbers and other […]

Entering the new realm of nerdhood, with my dual monitor desk action. 

A chickadee with a leg band.  CNN Today in a Reuter’s story about the calls of Chickadees…and what they mean “If you ever go out and are hearing a chickadee making a really long string of “D” notes on a call — six or eight or even 10 — you […]

Last night we drove up to Woolman Hill in Deerfield to hear Scott Ritter speak. Ritter, former UN Weapons inspector, is a tall man with a commanding knowledge of his subject. He spoke without notes and with passion about how the US constitution is being shredded by the Patriot act […]

It is a lovely summer. Being in the travel business brings no end of pleasant gifts and fortunate circumstances. Today I dropped by the studio of WMAS, right next to the Connecticut River in West Springfield. I was there to tape a segment about travel with Lopez, who produces the […]

The so-called F1 Fiasco was the talk of the racing world Monday, said Yahoo, igniting outrage and finger-pointing among backers of the successful international circuit and Americans who want to see it succeed here. As cars circled the track for their warmup lap in the U.S. Grand Prix on Sunday, […]

How much does it cost for a trade publication called ‘Hits’ to say nice things about you? Andy Gershon, president of V2 records, found out recently, as published in the LA Times.“In Hits’ case, a review of its website showed that changes in coverage coincided with decisions by Gershon and […]

Found this on the web. ‘They Just Whooped The Hell Out Of Him!’An armed robber brandishing a revolver and some tough talk entered Blalock’s Beauty College demanding money. He left crying, bleeding and under arrest, after Dianne Mitchell, her students and employees attacked the suspect, beating him into submission. Mitchell […]

This from a recent story from the Wall Street Journal on line: “Richard Spencer, the editor of InTouch Weekly, which is published by New Jersey-based Bauer Publishing USA, says most A-list celebrities who seek publicity will choose a magazine with a wider circulation over a payment that gets them fewer […]

Bob Benz and Mike Phillips in The Online Journalism review slammed a recent decision by the AP to charge extra for content used on newspaper’s websites. “The Associated Press is planting the seeds of its own demise. AP’s most recent act of self-destruction was its April 18 announcement that it […]

Jennifer Loviglio is a columnist for the Rochester City news, who just won an award from the folks who congratulate alternative weeklies. Her column, “the XXX files, looked at a study showing that female orgasms are relics from the biological past, like nipples on a man, not needed any more. […]

The Wall Street Journal on line opined today about News Corp’s plan to launch fox business news…soon but not today. “A former Republican strategist, Mr. Ailes is known for thinking like a political tactician, so his public diffidence about the new venture may well be an attempt to lower expectations. […]

Jomathan Klein has moved aggressively to make CNN’s prime-time producers shift their focus to longer, more-polished pieces, eventually creating a sort of “60 Minutes” every night. It’s an art he knows personally: for two decades he worked as producer at CBS and, as the network’s executive vice president, he oversaw […]

Kevin Coughlin wrote a piece for Newhouse news service sunday about Google’s special blend of young and old employees, that has propelled them to the top of the internet, and pushed their stock up in the $300 range. Rob Pike is one stand-out who was profiled. “Google treats employees like […]