From the category archives:

Journalism

Jeff Pulver of 140Conf poses with Gary Leitzell, the Mayor of Dayton at the Dayton Road Trip meet up for the 140conf. When we arrived at Blind Bob’s for the 140conf Road Trip Meet Up, there were already a dozen people there, waiting for and watching Jeff Pulver and his “roadies” navigate the Ohio freeway [...]

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Radical conservatives failed to destroy and disband the NAACP this week like they did ACORN with Andrew Breitbart’s posting of a edited video featuring Shirley Sherrod. At the end of the week, it really didn’t matter that their primary objective was not met as the mainstream media handed them an even bigger victory; virtually no [...]

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My editor wrote this over at GerardMcLean.com and I had to share. It is something that I privately champion at every opportunity, and this being one of those time, here you go. UPDATE: @Neenz just published the Paralympics page at Alltop.com last night, Mar 5. If you know of or write a blog on the [...]

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You are reading DogWalkBlog.com, produced and written in Dayton, Ohio. We are talking with Rufus, one of the key writers of the blog where he reminds us why you, time and place are important for blog credibility and reader orienteering. I was reading a blog from a linked tweet this morning and halfway through it, [...]

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I bolted straight up in bed last night and asked myself the most obvious question most folks in the media should be asking themselves about the health care reform debate. “Where is the bell-shaped curve in the GOP dissent?” Think about this. When was the last time you had forty supposedly independent-minded people agree on [...]

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WSJ photo change-up

by Rufus on December 2, 2009

I understand regional differences in editorial selection for newspapers and different editions based on a kind of soft “stop the presses,” but really WSJ, are you pandering to us in the “Pro-America” parts of the country? At least we should be grateful the cadet wasn’t reading “Goin’ Rogue”

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My BFF Rupert Murdoch* has been taking some hits lately about him wanting to block Google from indexing his sites and putting up pay walls. I understand his reasoning and don’t think he is too far off the mark. In order to explain my thinking, I have an analogy. Say you own a small grocery [...]

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Being naked is not a sex crime*

by Rufus on October 31, 2009

This is a response to Police Chief Mark Beckner trying to ban the annual Naked Pumpkin Run in Boulder, Colorado. Here is the logic of “being naked is a sex crime.” Genitals and breasts are used during sex. A display of genitals and breasts in public is a crime. Therefore displaying your genitals and breasts [...]

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Health care reform my puppy butt

by Rufus on October 8, 2009

Yesterday, Keith Olbermann had a one-hour special comment about health insurance and health care in America. He has recently had a first-hand experience with his father. I don’t know how much it cost to produce one hour of Countdown nor do I know what the lost opportunity costs are from insurance ad revenue MSNBC will [...]

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Graduation decorum

by Rufus on June 11, 2009

My daughter graduated from high school this year. The school sent home a “contract” we both had to sign whereby we promised to “behave” ourselves by treating the ceremony with respect and dignity. Then, over the course of the week, they called our house three times, reminding us of our pledge to behave. My daughter [...]

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Are serious journalists reporting this story like they are covering an MTV Celebrity Deathmatch? Really? Wow! The line between bloggers and journalists is being blurred rapidly and it is being done by the group that screams loudest when the comparison is made. How are we to trust media organizations that pit a sitting US President [...]

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Peggy Noonan had an article yesterday in the WSJ yesterday where she opines on why government talks in indecipherable language. The explanation is fairly simple. You can’t “sound bite” a complicated paragraph of “indecipherable language” which frustrates “journalists” into printing the whole statement. If you say “go to the doctor” like normal people, all of [...]

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I’m pretty sure I was not the only puppy watching Kutcher’s video where he broke 1 million followers on Twitter, scratching my head at the $100,000 check he was holding up as a donation to the Malaria No More organization. Why was this important? Where was the tie-in? Is malaria really that important to stamp [...]

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I read this AdWeek this morning and the “legit news” people seemed a bit confused as to why Americans would rely on the The Daily Show with Job Stewart or The Colbert Report. It really just comes down to this: We know were are being lied to, but we don’t know where. Stewart is just [...]

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Clearing the clippings

by Charlie on March 19, 2009

It has happened again, more news story clippings are piling up on my desk faster than I can comment on them. So, here is the quick dump of stuff so my brain can breathe again. Everyone deserves a second chance No, no they don’t. You should take the time to do it right the first [...]

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Why small business hates the media

by Rufus on March 7, 2009

Recently, a local small business* abruptly went out of business. They had been a rising star in the Dayton business community for the past ten years. They carved an industry out of revolutionary idea, employed over 30 people a year at their heyday, enabled folks to support the troops and gave rise to a number [...]

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Sometimes a dog is just a dog

by Rufus on February 20, 2009

The New York Post issued a statement about the infamous chimp cartoon published Wednesday. (Here if you need to see it.) At the end they stated “Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon – even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.” First, let me remind everyone that this is the New York [...]

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