It used to take a news cycle – or at least the evening news or the morning newspaper – to be the first to report political gaffes by politicians, former politicians, presidential wannabes and former vice-presidential candidates. No more. Tweeting, twittering and blogging of Sarah Palin’s rewriting of Paul Revere’s midnight ride took less time…
Front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination Mitt Romney increasingly is being put under the media microscope. That’s proper and the way it should be for any viable presidential nominee. However, the media should not give credence to those bashing Romney’s Morman religion, including voices such as those of Warren Cole Smith, Charles Chaput an research…
Politicians’ sex scandals are rearing their hoary heads in the press once again. There’s the Strauss-Kahn front-page news of a nude Frenchman pursuing a maid in a New York hotel, his perp-walk photos, the French maintaining it was a suave man behaving normally, and, well you get the picture (though it’s hoped that no pictures…
An ever-increasing number of the public, media professionals and journalism educators seem to think that the new/electronic media are the only media that still matter. Don’t tell that to the residents of Joplin, Missouri, though, where members of this tornadoes-ravaged community have been getting their local news almost exclusively from Zimmer Radio’s six stations. It…
Jim Romenesko has blogged (May 24) that Ronnie Polaneczky, a Philadelphia columnist, has been posting online comments from readers remarking on her suggestion that Arnold Schwarzenegger and other cheaters “get tattoos of their kids faces – on their penises [because] it would remind them just who gets screwed when daddy’s wee-wee wanders.” (