by The Wordyeti | Aug 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
This one comes courtesy of Dave Mitchell, at the tail end of another wide-ranging conversation. The article is “long as hell,” but fascinating in that it describes how scientists are starting to focus in on how our inborn moral sense works. I had mentioned...
by The Wordyeti | Aug 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
As the L.A. Times seemingly stumbles towards an unmarked grave in journalistic Potter’s Field, every once in a while it spits out something that reminds me why I will kinda miss the Left Coast Gray Lady when she’s gone. Today’s issue of the Times...
by The Wordyeti | Aug 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
I originally sent this out as an e-mail message, but I think that spam filters are snatching up anything with “Paris Hilton” in the message header, so I’m not sure if it got through. So here it is again, in this space … which, come to think of...
by The Wordyeti | Aug 1, 2008 | newspaper crisis
In all the trainings I’ve done over the last couple of years, the one hot-button issue guaranteed to touch off a passionate debate, even amongst the most detached, sit-on-their-hands group is the reader comments section. See, journalists just hate them damn...
by The Wordyeti | Jul 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
More articles about the noxious effect of curmudgeons on the newspaper industry. This meme has really taken off in the last couple of weeks; I sense a great deal of pent-up frustration on both sides of this ideological debate. If this were an ABC Afterschool Special,...
