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Moving on, and many, many thanks...
So...my recent vacation and related absences also coincided with an offer from PoliticsDaily.com to cover religion for them, as editor Melinda Henneberger announces here in her roundup on the site's very successful first 100 days. That means, in short, that I'll have to sign off from blogging h
posted 8:29:24pm Aug. 02, 2009 |
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Calvin at 500, Calvinism 2.0
If you thought you knew John Calvin--who turned 500 last week--you probably don't know enough. For example, that he was French, born Jean Cauvin. And if he was in fact scandalized by dancing, he was also a lot more complex than that. I explored the new look Calvin in an essay at PoliticsDaily, "Patr
posted 11:53:35am Jul. 16, 2009 |
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Apologia pro vita sua...Kinda
In my defense, I've had computer outages and family reunions and a few days of single-parenthood, which is always a bracing reminder of what many parents go through all the time.
And this weekend it's off for a week's vacation.
Anyway, hence the long absence. Apologies to those who have chec
posted 10:51:36am Jul. 16, 2009 |
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When Benny met Barry: "I'll pray for you!"
The first word via Vatican Radio and first image (that I saw) via Rocco:
Speaking to Vatican Radio, Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi said "moral values in international politics, immigration and the Catholic Church's contribution in developing countries" were key topics of discussio
posted 12:54:28pm Jul. 10, 2009 |
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Signs of the times: Obama's eye
Yes, this photo of Obama ostensibly eyeing a young woman (apparently a 17-year-old delegate from Brazil--where are her parents?!) at the G-8 Summit is the hottest Google search item. And of course the question of what Obama was thinking is a leading Fox News story.
So it goes, even as the
posted 12:26:05pm Jul. 10, 2009 |
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posted October 24, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Will someone please hit Bono in the face with a whipped cream pie?
posted October 26, 2008 at 11:23 pm
I don’t know if Bono as a columnist will help shore-up the Times bottom line, but at least he’ll being writing for no pay, according to MTV. The Times editorial-page editor Andrew Rosenthal told students at Columbia University’s Journalism School that he was considering whether to ask Queen guitarist Brian May to also write some pieces for the paper. The report siad that May has a doctorate in astrophysics. Whoa!
You know, of course, the Times isn’t the only newspaper in trouble. Analysts believe even sharper drops in advertising revenues will occur during the usually lucrative holiday season. What I think is amazing is what Anick Jesdanun wrote in the Business Week piece, “Newspaper companies face pressure from all sides.”
“To save the holidays, newspaper companies are counting on advertisers simply placing their ads at the last minute, once they have a better handle on consumer confidence,” wrote Jesdanun.
How do YOU say “denial?” How can they possibly count on last minute expenditures to save their fourth-quarter bottom line? Who else can they get to write free columns?
Sharon McEachern
http://www.ethicsoup.com
posted October 27, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Gosh, instead of Bono, maybe the NYT could attempt a return to hiring journalists who investigate and write a story based on facts. It works better than hiring writers who decide on the story and then work up the facts to meet the case.