Remembering a media hoarde

Cross-posted from my other blog : A reminder, in the Asheville Citizen Times, that today is the 5th anniversary of the day Eric Rudolph was ...

Gathering storm

Two new reports on global warming that should make lots of people think: From the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Florida Coastal...

A victim of polio: 58 years later

There are still people out there living with the effects of polio, I've known a few who were damaged by the paralysis, and it turns out ...

Florida politics, always entertaining

The Charlie Crist rumors (Bob Norman, on the Green Iguana) keep popping up, such as in this Politics1 report, repeated today at Huffington...

News coverage: politics, Iraq, and more

In the Houston Chronicle, a story out of a National Press Club conference: Journalism old-timers find campaign coverage disturbing . Jack N...

Little fights against Islam

This new form of 'political correctness' is getting scarier: Is Rachel Ray a secret Muslim? Does that sound ridiculous? Well, not to...

Link journalism at the Times

Wow, I didn't even know this was going on. Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 says the New York Times Embraces Link Journalism and cites an e...

A good cartoon for Memorial Day (and all other days)

Clay Bennett at the Chattanooga Times Free Press .

Times Machine

Over the last few years, several newspapers have made the expensive investment of scanning their microfilm to make stories available online ...

Random bites

Over the weekend, a few things have caught my eye and I wonder what they mean: At HeraldWatch , there's a rumor that the Miami Herald m...

Background on the news

Combing the journalism blogs is one of the best ways to find collections of links for researching background information on news of the day....

Food blogging becomes a movie

Somehow I think I never got around to reading anything of Julie Powell 's blog, The Julie/Julia Project , which she started in August 20...

A few research links, and a last note on the Bush/Obama flap

UN Data : search or browse all the statistics, including latest news. DMV.org , unofficial guide to DMVs in all 50 states. VINcheck from Na...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) On May 14, The SCLC's Poor People's Campaign began its Washington marches for e...

Appalachia and politics

In the Cleveland Plain Dealer's poltics blog: Analysis: Obama's is an Appalachia problem, not a white problem . Fascinating stuff. A...

Presidential criticism

You'd think, in the last year of an administration, the president would keep a steady hand and try not to rile the waters. But that'...

Future of News

Some days it seems the future of news is secure, especially when you see something like the list of Knight News Challenge winners, projects...

FIU's J-school, and Nixon blog

A post at Daily Pulp called attention to the budget cuts at Florida International University: J-school in peril; newspapers silent . South F...

Memories of stories past

In the Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg is covering the Guantánamo trial. She may be the only reporter who's been covering Guantánamo from ...

If you don't read anything else this week...

Please read this story about one soldier killed in Iraq and how his death affected everyone who had anything to do with getting his body hom...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) In May, the turmoil continued: On May 2, in France, the university at Nanterre was shut ...

Links potpourri and research update

I haven't posted a research update for a couple weeks as I haven't been collecting links. I am browsing the usual places but haven...

A good day for voting

It's good to be a North Carolina voter today. The couple-mile drive to the polling station at the rural firehouse was in the middle of...

Some good news for a change

A couple of encouraging stories at the New York Times: As Gas Costs Soar, Buyers Flock to Small Cars . Yaris, Fit, and Focus are the big gai...

What happed to feminism?

Back in the '60s, a lot of us really believed that women would control their lives and their sexual power would work for the positive as...

Under the Bus

Joel Achenbach finally puts words to the uncomfortable feeling I've been having about the Obama stories recently. What's with this ...