When critics criticize, there is light and there is friction.A review should inform, excite and entertain. A critic’s judgment can serve to educate, amuse and delight — but should never come at the expense of the subject’s dignity. Reviews are a consumer service and news, and ought to be a pleasure to read. These are […]
Public Relations has been around for a long time, but it hasn’t always been known by that name. Politicians through the ages have tried to control their image in the media and corporations have tried to hide transgressions using “public relations.” But it’s really more than that. At least that’s what its practitioners would have […]
Media watchers and pundits have been mourning the death of newspapers since the arrival of competitive forces. They say the Internet is the major cause of the demise, but other factors include an aging population, lack of interest in news, high cost of paper and ink and the growth of instant journalism. Here are interesting […]
During the recent presidential election contest, a sense of humor was an absolute necessity. Facebook friends posted political epithets about my political party ranging from Socialists to maggots and I had to grin and bear it. I took great joy in collecting and posting editorial cartoons to project my candidates and skewer the opposition at […]
Discussion by liberals and conservatives, religious and nonreligious about legalizing marijuana has raged for years while the United States has spent billions in a Drug War that has been a losing effort. There were half a dozen marijuana referendums in the recent election cycle in total, with three of them proposing legalization for recreational purposes, […]
• Careful observations make your copy more detailed and conversations more colorful. • Nonverbal communication makes up between 70-80 percent of total communication. To totally communicate interpersonally, one must understand what the nonverbals may be telling the other person. • Nonverbal study improves your sense of observation and allows you to SHOW rather than tell […]
The ease with which students can cut and paste information and paste it into their work makes for a problem for journalism teachers and publications advisers. But the problem needs to be attacked, and students must understand from the beginning the consequences of their actions. It’s grounds for course failure, and it’s grounds for firing […]
This article from NoPC begins: “Media Bias is a myth.” Then it goes on to give a well-reasoned explanation of why this is true. “It’s nothing more than a simple excuse for politicians to explain their failures and political defeats. A scapegoat. If you want to convince more people that your political philosophy is the […]
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