Stand behind your comments: Use name
April 28th, 2009
You can chalk this up to the grumblings of an old fart who refuses to see bliss and wisdom in progress, but I grew up believing that standing behind what you say, write, and even murmur was the better choice. If you write something, you should put your name at the top and be ready to defend it. That’s integrity. It shows you have fiber and strength. To refuse to stand behind your own words reveals you as dishonest and gutless. It shows you are at least a weenie.
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Wanted: Something to believe in
April 2nd, 2009
It is going to be tough for this new generation to carry the torch. Perfectly good kids say they have very little to believe in, that they were taught this truth by not being taught something else, and that they learned it well. As our education system bolstered the curricula with meaningless glop, the same system also retreated from giving students the tools and ideas for them to find something to believe in. So students now go to college and consider journalism and advertising and public relations as pretty much equal. They are not equal. How can you “believe in” anything to do with, for example, public relations?
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