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Journalism

The complete Olympic Games include the Paralympics

March 1, 2010

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 Paralympics, [...]

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You are not lost, you are here and you know where here is, right?

February 1, 2010

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, my [...]

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Where is the bell-shaped curve in the GOP health care dissent?

December 15, 2009

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 anything? [...]

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WSJ photo change-up

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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Being naked is not a sex crime*

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 in [...]

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Health care reform my puppy butt

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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Obama-Cheney Celebrity Deathmatch… really?

May 22, 2009

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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Why the indecipherable language of government?

May 17, 2009

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 a [...]

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Why celebrities on Twitter need journalists and PR folks

April 24, 2009

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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We know were are being lied to, but we don’t know where. Stewart is just showing us

March 27, 2009

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

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 time. Not [...]

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Why small business hates the media

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

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 Post [...]

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We’re all in this financial mess together.. except me, and me, and…

February 9, 2009

The Washington Post published an article on President Obama’s desire to pre-empt the network’s prime time with an address about the stimulus package that is being routed through Congress.
Broadcasters are bracing themselves for the likelihood of three prime-time interruptions in three weeks, totaling at least three hours of prime time — and ad breaks [...]

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Annoying little kids at the New York Times

January 23, 2009

Today, the New York Times is “the annoying kid at the magic show shouting, ‘I know how you did that trick!’”
Why did you have to spoil the illusion? Did we really need to know this? Why couldn’t you just let the magic happen instead of stirring a pot nobody needed to watch?
There are facts and [...]

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Why do we keep eating?

January 17, 2009

Why do we eat? The simple answer would be that if we did not eat, we would die. But that is not entirely true. Science can provide us with a pill we can take that would provide exactly the nutrition we need — no more, no less — to keep our bodies healthy. Yet, we [...]

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I know nothing, but let me tell you about it anyway

January 7, 2009

Few things make me more upset than “journalists” who have no knowledge of the facts of a story, write about it or get on television, answering phantom questions about hypoteticals. Then the anchor or host treats their answers like they relate to the story at hand. Then they guide the reader or listener through [...]

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