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Spicoli Comes to the Olympics
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
The first American hero of the 2014 Winter Olympics is the goofy and charming Sage Kotsenburg of Park City, who won the first ever slopestyle snowboarding competition. Slopestyle is acrobatic snowboarding in which riders fly off vertical ramps to reach …
The Senior Global Digital Foreign Correspondent
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Katie Couric started her new job doing television on the Internet and is now the “Yahoo News Global Anchor.” Katie started out as a spear-carrying reporter, worked her way up to the commanding position of anchor, and has become a …
The Snow Shovel Index
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
It’s that time of year when news reporters run to the hardware store to interview the manager about the number of snow shovels he’s sold. Snow shovels are a measurement of severe weather and when the hardware store is sold …
Ron Burgundy Works at CNN
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Credibility in the news business is hard to get and easy to lose. But at CNN they’re giving it away. Several of CNN’s major anchors did an advertisement for the new Will Ferrell movie “Anchorman 2,” about the …
Toys in the Attic
Friday, December 6, 2013
One of the stories in the news this Christmas is that there might be a shortage of toys. Hand-wringing business reporters say that because the stores were worried about a soft season, they ordered 2% fewer toys this year, which …
The Blackest Friday
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
One of the darkest moments in American history came when the day after Thanksgiving was named “Black Friday”. What used to be a day with little to do but eat leftovers and hang out with family has become …
Liar, Liar
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
The old joke in journalism is “if your mother says she loves you, check it out.” Reporters pride themselves on being skeptical of everything they’re told. People lie to us all the time. It’s a reporter’s job to smoke out …
ObamaCare Flashing 12:00
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
If you have ever owned a computer, cellphone, or push-button telephone, you should feel sympathy for the people who rolled out the ObamaCare website. They’re taking a lot of heat for doing what everyone else in technology has done. …
The Message is the Medium
Friday, October 4, 2013
The federal shutdown is a study in what is known in Washington as “messaging”, the political practice in which words are used to influence the outcome of arguments without conveying information or truth. In messaging there is no right or …
The Worst Work of Journalism
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Today at least a hundred reporters are doing the worst work of journalism. They are making phone calls and knocking on the doors of spouses, family, and friends of the 12 people killed yesterday in that shooting spree at the …
