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February 2013

February 07, 2013

Sacramone’s free magazine for college students

Whatever happened to Anthony Sacramone, you may ask? He of the blog Strange Herring. Formerly...

January 2013

January 15, 2013

Journalism as a picture of exceptions

Mollie Hemingway, in the context of a post on how the media completely ignored a...

December 2012

December 20, 2012

Barack Obama, Person of the Year

Time Magazine has proclaimed Barack Obama as the Person of the Year for 2012. Here,...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Questions for pro-choice candidates

From Trevin Wax: Debate moderators and reporters love to ask pro-life candidates hard questions about...

September 2012

September 17, 2012

Google reposts anti-Islam video

The White House asked Google, which owns YouTube, to take down the 14-minute "trailer"--some people...

September 06, 2012

Corporate largesse for journalists at the conventions

The Democratic convention has 5,000 delegates. It is being covered by 15,000 reporters. The Republican...

August 2012

August 10, 2012

“Liking” as free speech

Well, the consensus as to my query about whether you would like a "like" feature...

August 07, 2012

The Gaffability Index

Ruth Marcus observes how our political discourse--or at least the media coverage of that discourse--has...

August 07, 2012

Romney’s speech in Poland

To illustrate the point of the "gaffe" post, what did you learn from media coverage...

July 2012

July 25, 2012

The Chick-fil-A firestorm

Opponents of gay marriage are being demonized. Not just disagreed with but condemned, attacked, and...

July 12, 2012

If you have no electricity, check your computer

My nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for letters to the editor, if there were such...

June 2012

June 18, 2012

40 years of Watergate

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the burglary of the Democratic National Committee office in...

June 12, 2012

Obama’s data mining

Yesterday we posted about mining "big data," how corporations, politicians, and researchers are delving into...

June 06, 2012

VeggieTales creator repents of moralism

More on our continuing series on Christianity & the Arts, how the Christianity part has...

June 05, 2012

Democrats turning against Obama

Maureen Dowd--liberal, Democratic, erstwhile Obama supporter--expresses her frustration with him and his presidency, citing other...

May 2012

May 21, 2012

Be skeptical about political journalism

The New York Times broke a shocking story: Joe Ricketts, an up-by-the-bootstraps billionaire whose varied...

May 16, 2012

The rainbow-colored halo

President Clinton was hailed by the liberal media as "the first black president"--on the basis...

May 16, 2012

Fact-checking humor

David Sedaris is a humor writer who has a standing gig at National Public Radio...

May 11, 2012

Was Mitt Romney a high school bully?

The Washington Post has a big story of the sort that opposition researchers love, an...

April 2012

April 27, 2012

Lutheran Anglicans

I met an Anglican priest the other day who, it turns out, was a big...

April 20, 2012

Life Full Voice

Some of you may remember Lori Lewis who occasionally has frequented this blog. At one...

April 16, 2012

We’re on Issues, Etc. today

My daughter and I will be on Issues, Etc. radio and web-radio program today to...

April 12, 2012

Rumors crossing into journalism

The internet can serve as a vast gossip network, a way to spread rumors and...

April 09, 2012

E-books are increasing reading

E-books and e-readers are increasing the amount of reading that is going on. People who...

April 02, 2012

Holy Week radio

The talk radio show Issues, Etc., has a great line-up for Holy Week. This would...

March 2012

March 06, 2012

Rush Limbaugh goes too far

Radio talker Rush Limbaugh has his schtick, but when he targeted a college student who...

March 06, 2012

Issues, Etc., returns to KFUO

The saga of Issues, Etc., after much drama, is moving to a happy resolution. The...

March 05, 2012

Oklahoma and the “conservative life”

Last Thursday the Washington Post had a big feature article--on the front page, no less--about...

March 01, 2012

Denying Communion to a lesbian

This story marshalled so much outrage that it made the front page of the Washington...

February 2012

February 10, 2012

The Church of Planned Parenthood

Mollie Hemingway on the uproar over the Susan G. Komen foundation (which is devoted to...