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Limbaugh brays on: louder, emptier, closer to the end
Limbaugh is slowly dying, like the dinosaur that he is, bit by bit. As sponsors escape, he doesn't need any help from the FCC. Thus, I disagree with calls that he be fired. Just watching him losing...
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The Good, the Bad and the Butt-Ugly: NYU names its 100 outstanding...
You know how every so often somebody will publish a list of the greatest rock bands in history? Those usually make for interesting reading. Beatles, check. Rolling Stones, check. Led Zeppelin,...
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Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow: forecast calls for a deluge of teabagger...
By Patrick Vecchio I am waiting to see if—no, make it how—the Tea party and other way-right-leaning Republicans react to this week’s barely-qualifies-as-news that TV journalist/personality Anderson...
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Horror in Aurora: Common decency vs. the media's death paparazzi
Like millions of other Americans I first heard about the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado Friday morning. It was a sobering moment in the middle of my morning at work. Without more facts at my disposal, all...
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The real #NBCFail
by Brian Moritz If you’ve spent any time on Twitter this weekend, you know about #nbcfail. NBC has been so roundly and soundly (and rightfully) criticized for its coverage of the London Olympics –...
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The 7th Sign: David Brooks in the Times, telling the truth about Romney
This is just remarkable. And it may be the 7th Sign. I try not to read David Brooks any more than I have to because every time I do I wind up wanting to throw things. Through the years he … Continue...
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The incompleteness of the soul: an insider's non-review of Completeness of...
I’ve been thinking about Completeness of the Soul: The Life and Opinions of Jay Breeze, Rock Star, the third novel from my friend and fellow scrogue Jim Booth. I finished reading it a few days ago, but...
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Building my own news machine, whether I like it or not
I didn’t realize it until this morning. I have not watched CNN in more than five weeks. Since Ted Turner set loose the Chicken Noodle Network in June 1980, I have watched it daily — in the morning as I...
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Nate Silver: Geek? Yes. Thoughtful journalist? Bigger yes.
FiveThirtyEight post on disputed climate change story signals commitment to transparency Yesterday, after reading criticisms of Nate Silver’s revamped FiveThirtyEight, I thought: Denny, find out for...
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The LeBron James story is the future of sports journalism
“Journalism-as-process” is here, for good or for bad, and whether you like it or not It’s going on nearly two weeks now since LeBron James announced he was returning to Cleveland. So who broke the...
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Rolling Stone brass to undergrads: ‘Feel free to fuck up badly; you won’t get...
Rolling Stone’s flawed story and its reaction to a critical report make teaching journalism to the ‘instant gratification’ generation even more difficult When Rolling Stone’s editorial apparatus...
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You, too, can be a journalist (or a corporate message control specialist)
I asked my students as the semester ended: “How many of you do not want to be journalists?” Most raised a hand, albeit timidly. (I am, after all, a professor of journalism.) “How many of you wish to...
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Eight seconds — why the NYT caves, and Facebook wins
An impatient audience wielding smartphones says, ‘We want it NOW.’ Eight seconds. Count with me, please: one thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three, one thousand four, one thousand five,...
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Newspapers founder in habit-driven cultures — so the habits need changing
One morning a few weeks ago, I sat at the end of the counter in my favorite diner, Robbins Nest. Lisa brought tea, Jessica asked, “The usual?” and owner Crystal badgered chef Anthony (as usual). I set...
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Newspapers’ big problem: failure to distinguish meaningful from meaningless
Warren Buffett, the newspaper-loving Oracle of Omaha, isn’t loving newspapers quite as much these days. Speaking of the industry’s attempts to create a viable business plan, he told USA Today’s Rem...
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Anniversary journalism? Well, mostly it just sucks.
In early April 1970, I walked into the newsroom of my hometown newspaper and asked the editor if he knew anyone at the state department of natural resources. I’d just received my undergraduate degree...
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Freedom of the press means little if audiences are trapped in bubbles
A free press won’t amount to squat as long as it has audiences who hear only what they want to hear, read only what their Facebook-sculpted algorithms tell them to read, and worship blissfully at the...
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Journalism’s new (not really) vehicle for delivering news — email newsletters
I don’t read The Washington Post any more. I don’t see a hard copy. I don’t go prowling around its website. Instead, I read four of its newsletters delivered by email every day. In fact, WashPo offers...
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