I saw the other day that the Los Angeles Times will bring back presidential endorsements for the first time since 1972. The paper endorsed Richard Nixon that year, which may explain why they’ve been gun-shy. But, to some degree, we’re all gun-shy. Let’s see, what’s in it for the newspaper? We irritate half the candidates, a [...]
In the annual SOU First Amendment forum held Wednesday in Ashland, we heard discussion about the emerging role of “citizen journalists.” I came away from the talk with both hopes and fears of what that means. The so-called citizen journalist (as one speaker noted, aren’t journalists also citizens?) is everywhere — at least everywhere electronic, writing [...]
If you have been paying attention to world news, you were probably taken aback a bit by Sunday’s Parade magazine, which featured an interview with Benazir Bhutto titled “I am what the terrorists most fear.” She was also labeled on the front of the magazine (which is inserted in the MT) as “America’s best hope against al-Qaeda?” [...]
