Egypt toppled after Tunisia, and now others totter. Distant analysts seize on the obvious: dominoes. But the Middle East plays backgammon, far more intricate and old as the Sphinx. Read more...
Any ex-paperboy knows delivering news is a noble calling. I dreaded those dawn bike rides with Mr. Ward's Doberman in slobbering pursuit and that old lady's fury when I plastered her petunias. But I loved the news business. Read more...
Journalism is a specific discipline, as vital as medicine. Communications is theory. It is fascinating to study how porcupines hook up uninjured, or how humans sell ideas to the masses. But we need hard facts and history-based analyses that require a skilled reporter's presence. Read more...
Online recruiters for the Tribune Company are calling for "a solid team of anti-establishment producer/editors, "preditors"... ." Awesome. Retire real journalists and deploy tyros in "earbuds" and "flip-flops" to explain to Americans why they have killed uncounted innocents and squandered $5 trillion on two unwinnable wars that make yet more people hate them. Read more...
And now we've recently had Jon Stewart's ever-lovable Jason Jones laughing off The New York Times as a silly relic that only a grandmother could love.Stewart, who unfailingly gets it, keeps reminding us he is a comedian. Read more...
