Snow challenges media on Freedom of Speech
I found a link over the weekend to Tony Snow’s remarks as he accepted the 2007 Freedom of Speech Award from The Media Institute.
Snow is President Bush’s former White House Press Secretary and, prior to that, was host of a news analysis program on FoxNews. In his remarks, Snow links declining newspaper, television and cable [...]
Has blogging peaked?
Earlier this year, there were rumblings that “blogging had peaked” as an activity because a blog-measuring service called Technorati had claimed that the number of daily posts to blogs worldwide seemed to be declining. I wrote at that time, and I still believe, that the number of posts per day has very little to do with [...]
*Traditional media fail at Blacksburg
Having grown up in the era of the Watergate scandal, and consequently following the drama that surrounded journalism’s new ’stars’ like Woodward and Bernstein (and later, Janet Cooke), I’ve long been fascinated by the inner workings and politics of the newsroom. So, while I watched with the rest of my nation in horror and grief [...]