“Americans work too hard.”
Take your pick from any one of the eight European countries I have been to, and you would be correct in guessing that it is the location where I have heard that statement.
I lived in Germany with a family for a month after graduating high school. The father, who works often with [...]
Archive for April, 2008
“I want money. That’s what I want.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged happiness, money, Pew Research, work on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Random Acts of Journalism”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Journalism on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Blog” may once have been a dirty word. Less than ten years ago, the new word represented a mark of Generation Y adolescence, conjuring painful images of LiveJournals maintained by love-sick, forlorn, anguished teenagers seeking an outlet and an audience. Undeniably, thousands of these bared souls still find their home on the web, but blogs [...]
Before the Bill of Rights, there was the Constitution
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Constitution, Government on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My pleasant Sunday morning routine of baking breakfast, sipping a pot of coffee and reading the newspaper for two hours was interrupted yesterday by a conundrum. A piece in the Sunday Washington Post called Permissible Assaults Cited in Graphic Detail discussed how former Justice Department senior lawyer John Yoo said in a 2003 memo: “…federal laws prohibiting [...]
Journalism as an Art Form
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Journalism, Truth on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is running as an editorial in the April issue of Am Word Magazine @ American University.
In radio journalism, the essence of a story lies in its telling. The ability to transport the reader to the scene, into someone’s mind, to instill an emotion or light a spark is fundamental. Good radio is an art [...]
