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Has America lost its mind?
In the span of the last week we’ve had: The taser kid, Andrew Meyer starts asking too many questions and annoyingly disrupts a political forum with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. Kerry claims later not to have seen a thing and that it happened in another room. Pretty spine-less senator, the video shows the truth. You...
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How is news changing? Ask some experts!
I spend a lot of time talking about and thinking about new media and how it is going to change the news business and what we need to do to make sure we change with it. There’s been more than a few posts here on SLR and talks in person to anyone willing to listen....
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We’ll always have Paris…oy…if you want to or not
When I got up this morning to run an errand, the radio was talking about Paris Hilton… when I logged on to check my e-mail the top news blurb on Yahoo was of Paris Hilton… When I turned on the noon news on TV, the top news spot was about Paris Hilton. We are a...
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Another case of ethics?
I had thought about chiming in on Allan Detrich’s firing from the Toledo Blade after it was discovered that he turned in some altered images as the genuine article, but there was nothing I felt I could add to the debate that hadn’t already been said. And besides, you’ve got Detrich himself speaking about the...
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Virginia Tech student press presses on
With the news of what happened, why it happened, who to blame and my own circle of friends wondering why the media has latched onto the shooters immigrant status (is this relevant in anyway? That’s like saying he liked hats.), it’s easy to see how some angles of the story have been overlooked. Thanks to...
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Nachtwey speakes, minds blown
James Nachtwey, the closest thing our industry has to a rock star, gained mainstream recognition after his documentary “War Photographer” captured Oscar voters eyes, but he hasn’t always been the most outspoken. So when he speaks, I for one listen. Accepting his 2007 TED Prize, James Nachtwey talks about his decades as a photojournalist. A...
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Virginia Tech Reporting
Sometimes horrific events take place and in the interest of the public, journalists do their job and inform. Today we faced another such event when a man walked onto the Virginia Tech University campus and chaos ensued with shooting in two location, two hours apart and a half mile apart. Details are still being ironed...
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I’m glad Mr, Stewart agrees… whew!
When I posted my reflections on Imus I was afraid that some might miss the point I was trying to make, but thanks to a video a friend sent my way, I’m glad to see my thinking wasn’t quite as radical as I first believed.
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Multimedia Shooter contest winners
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but someone cruel once decided that humans need sleep. If you’re like me you’re always looking for inspiration and one of the places I’ve found it was in looking over the winners of Multimedia Shooter’s first anything-goes contest held last March. There’s a couple of really...
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TV News is a bussiness, here’s some funny that proves it
As I reflect on today’s events, from Fox News’ treatment of Kurt Vonnegut’s death to the endless Anna Nicole Smith updates to the stories that never go beyond the ink of newspapers to today’s events at Virginia Tech University I find myself once again comparing TV News to Newspapers. Those that know me will tell...
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Light bent on itself?!
According to a report by Scientific America, researchers have developed a method of refracting light back on itself in the opposite direction than how it wants to natural bounce off a surface. What’s this mean, it’s means there’s some crazy stuff going on with the study of light and adjusant to that is the way...
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Imus Firing May Create a Slippery Slope
Today Don Imus, who unless you’ve been under a rock, you know has been at the center of a media storm involving the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers basketball team and some comments he made to his producer at “Imus in the Morning,” was fired. Imus made the statements before Easter weekend and there was a...
