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The gum pole: November 2012
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Just chewing on some ideas. Wednesday, November 21, 2012. Journalism and the long view. Note: This is the third and final column in a series based on questions posed to former Post Register Managing Editor Dean Miller, who is now the director of the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University. Not only does no one know what the future holds for journalism, very few people even pretend to know any more. You ask what the future of news is? I have no friggin' idea. No one does.". Miller points out th...
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The gum pole: August 2013
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Just chewing on some ideas. Tuesday, August 27, 2013. If Fox and HLN had rules. Fox News, like most of its cable competitors, is populated mostly by pundits and talking heads, not journalists. Chris Wallace is one of the very few exceptions. Why he stays with an organization that has such a poor track record for journalism is another matter. Generally speaking, though, Wallace seems to try to do a decent job. 8220;The Internet will always be first — I’m not talking right now about legitimate ...Sadly, so...
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The gum pole: August 2012
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Just chewing on some ideas. Monday, August 13, 2012. Ninety days off the wall. Last night, after a fit of - well, I'm not sure what kind of fit it was, but it was definitely a fit - I vowed to stay off of my Facebook wall for the duration of the presidential race. I immediately felt better. Admittedly, I dreamed (this is true) that I suddenly and inexplicably had no friends. My subconscious was clearly telling me that I'd made the right decision, in that strange way our subconscious works. In Charleston,...
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The gum pole: October 2012
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Just chewing on some ideas. Monday, October 1, 2012. And now, for something completely different . golf. The Euros have their share of insufferable nincompoops (lighten up, Ian Poulter), but they generally tend to be a more huggable, laid-back bunch. Perhaps that's why they almost always win in this format. Put some dough on the line and the Americans would clean their clocks. I nominate John Daly as the next American Ryder Cup captain. Now, that would be a fun match to watch. Links to this post. In Char...
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The gum pole: October 2013
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Just chewing on some ideas. Friday, October 25, 2013. First time for everything. I surmised that the man standing at our front desk was in his mid-sixties. He was balding, with remnants of white hair neatly combed, one eye swollen shut behind wire-rim glasses. He would explain that he had an infection. He exuded a warmness I hadn’t expected. When we arrived at the little, oddly placed hallway that leads to my office, I stopped – as I always do – and pointed toward my doorway. Only 15 minutes before, an a...
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The gum pole: July 2013
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Just chewing on some ideas. Wednesday, July 31, 2013. The language Ron Nate used to open his recent column in the Post Register helps illustrate why Americans seem to be more polarized than ever. 8220;Truthful economists admit that minimum wages reduce work hours, restrict growth, impinge liberty and are never the stimulus they're thought to be,” he wrote. Welcome to the Age of Stalemate. The firmness of Nate’s position isn’t the issue. The issue is the assertion, which we should assume i...Today the art...
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The gum pole: November 2013
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Just chewing on some ideas. Friday, November 15, 2013. The end is near. Maybe today. Did you hear the one about President Obama getting caught on an open mic saying really terrible things about our country? I hadn’t either, until a helpful person dropped a photocopy of the Jefferson County Republican Party’s newsletter from last July here at the office. Among the nasty things Obama said was this morsel:. Even when the comments were picked up by a conservative web site called thelibertypaper.org. For exam...
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The gum pole: Underpants, updated yet again
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Just chewing on some ideas. Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Underpants, updated yet again. Originally written in 2002, revised and updated (with no change in premise or position) occasionally. Last update, April 29, 2014. A warped look at where newspapers and the Internet stand more two decades after we met, staring awkwardly across the dance floor. Despite the recent embracing of a subscriber model, there is no indication that the elusive sustainable online business model for newspapers of our size is ready to...
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The gum pole: June 2012
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Just chewing on some ideas. Thursday, June 28, 2012. Get it first - we'll get it right later. For several minutes on this historic morning, viewers of Fox News and CNN believed the Supreme Court had struck down the Affordable Care Act, because that's what those networks were saying. Oops Mandate upheld. One of the most significant Supreme Court rulings of our generation (I argue that Citizens United may turn out to be even more important over time, but that's for another day), and Fox and CNN got it ...
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The gum pole: March 2013
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Just chewing on some ideas. Thursday, March 28, 2013. 8220;Although I can’t authenticate the above, I can believe it.”. From a letter to the editor submitted to, but not published by, the Post Register. This is the best articulation I have seen on the way many Americans consume information. The specific topic to which the letter writer was referring is irrelevant. It’s the attitude, the approach to gathering information, that matters. What you’ll also find, if you’re willing to really look, i...It’...
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