A NEW KING TAKES OVER from the old Queen and a new political leader replaces the previous played-out office-holder. Continue reading “Renewed Leadership; Altered Messaging” »
Horrors that Follow Online Threats
INCITING? ENABLING? TRIGGERING? How should we view media responsibility in these recent days of mounting, and I’d suggest far from random, acts of extreme violence.
It would have been a mistake to ever think, if anybody really did, that the writer Salman Rushdie (left) might no longer be in danger, a full 33 years after the fatwa death sentence was declared against him by Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, himself now long dead and gone. Continue reading “Horrors that Follow Online Threats” »
Journalism: High-risk Profession, Still Practiced Against Bad Odds
I SURPRISED SOME FOLKS, EVIDENTLY. During my regular public radio version of this column last week, I reacted very negatively — and some people said uncharacteristically — to one disturbing aspect of President Joe Biden’s Middle East trip. Continue reading “Journalism: High-risk Profession, Still Practiced Against Bad Odds” »
July 4th Message: Freedom for What?
IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN. The gruesome symbolism of US citizens shot dead and injured amid the red-white-and-blue razzamatazz of Independence Day was horribly predictable.
The law of averages, though it’s more a journalistic construct and far from a proven mathematical rule, has long suggested that sooner rather than later the all-American atrocity of a gunman on a rampage would occur on our national day of celebration. Continue reading “July 4th Message: Freedom for What?” »
Pluck of the Irish: Bold Hibernian Coverage of Brexit Fall-out
IT’S SELF-EVIDENT (OR I HOPE IT IS) that any sensible New York-based media person should spend time in Europe. I’m now reflecting on almost two months recently spent in Ireland and France, which also included a brief look-in on the UK.
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