For an election year: A short lesson on economics
July 24th, 2008
If this is 2008, it is election year. If this is 2008, the news is full of stories about economics. While the election is responsible for a great deal of the stories about economics, most of it comes from the fall-out of bank failures, mortgage loan defaults, rising gasoline price, and a thousand other indications that the economy going you know where. A responsible, educated journalist will want to know as much as possible about economics any year, but this year is even more important. How can you ask an intelligent question without a background in economics? Come on, it’s doubtful anyone down the hall in the business office will bring you up to speed without telling everyone in town you’re an idiot. This podcast will help.
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Gushing, and saccharine emotional overloading
July 7th, 2008
In journalism, people die. They do not pass away or pass on or just pass. The dead do not ascend to somewhere above. More likely, dead people are toes up on the coroner’s table getting the final physical exam, and reporters are nice enough not to mention that. What I’m talking about is gush, or prattling over whatever subject lies before us. Gush is syrupy, usually unjustified positive overstatement, and the statements often go on and on, the facts lost in a thick, sugary soup of words.
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