Tag Archives: journalism

No More Than Kindling

As if the dying newspaper industry needed to remind the public of its increasing obsolescence in legitimate civic discourse/practicability, here’s crusty old Bill Moyers doing his journalism-thing and exposing The Washington Post as the gang of liars and second-rate hacks they become under the light of a full moon:
… Katharine Weymouth, the publisher of The [...]

Local Environmental Reporting Gets Green Light

Louisville Public Media has received a grant of $40,000 to “build a consortium of public radio stations throughout the region interested in producing environmental news and features and sharing them with others stations” in conjunction with LPM’s Ohio River Radio Project.
Since Kentucky is a veritable ground-zero in the fight against Big Coal, we’re uniquely poised [...]

As we lay dying?

With apologies to William Faulkner, we must ask: Are alt-weeklies dying, too? Funny transposition to read about the death of alts in a daily.

Palin power fading

Calling it a ’slap in the face’, some Republicans are livid at the cover of Newsweek featuring GOP Veep nominee Sarah Palin. The close-up photo has “a picture so detailed it shows every blemish and wrinkle and even a few wisps of facial hair.” Yikes!
Remember the days when the cover art was meant to attract [...]