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Touring The West Wing!
EEOB / OEOB Today I was lucky enough to be given a tour of the West Wing of the White House by BU graduate and now an RA for the BU DC program (who also just so happens to work at the White House – no...
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Are you willing to pay for the news you read online?
The New York Times So, I saw this post on the Freshly Pressed page. The New York Times has decreased its 20 free articles per month to 10. That’s not good news for people with no money, like myself....
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You didn’t really think I’d let this slide, did you?
Politics aside, I think we can all agree that Hillary Clinton is a total badass. Seriously, it doesn’t even matter what your politics are or where your allegiance lies, you look at this picture and...
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Countdown to D.C., Round Two
D.C. Well, tomorrow is the beginning of June. I left D.C. a couple of weeks ago. Now the countdown has begun for my return in September. I hated having to leave, but it was easier to do knowing I’d be...
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Settling in…
This post is a week overdue. I planned to write this last Friday, but here we are, Friday again and I’m only now getting around to it. I’ve been settling into Roll Call and working on a few stories....
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Debating House of Cards
So, The New York Times has started a weekly recap of House of Cards, dealing with the subject: What the Show Gets Right and Wrong About Journalism. I decided to take a look at their first post and see...
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Can We Stop Blurring The Line Between Editorial Comment And News?
There’s one thing that’s really been driving me crazy lately. I mean seriously crazy. Editorial comment posing as news. Everywhere I look, there it is: Yet another article with a “newsy” headline, a...
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The Challenges Of Writing A First Chapter (Especially If You’re A Journalist)
About a year ago, I had this great idea for a novel. At least I think it’s a great idea. Whether it is or not is not the point. The point is, it’s very difficult, when you’ve been writing fact for...
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CQ Roll Call: “Award of Excellence for Best Interiors”
From Tumblr: @FOXArchitects is honored to have received two design awards at the 2012 NAIOP Maryland/DC Chapter Awards of Excellence Gala last night. One of those projects was for CQ Roll Call: Award...
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An Apology For Being Blind To Liberal Bias In The Media
I used to be far more openly opinionated than I am today. That might be hard to believe, because I tend to express a lot of opinions here on this blog and occasionally on Facebook, too. But what I mean...
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The Third Option
I’m reading another of Vince Flynn’s political thrillers. This is one is called The Third Option and it’s actually strangely relevant to what is going on now in relation to Edward Snowden and the whole...
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Time To Terminate The Irish
I was looking through some old newspapers on my desk, rather bored, and attempted some blackout writing. Filed under: Journalism, Media, News, Politics, Writing
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Are you willing to pay for the news you read online?
The New York Times So, I saw this post on the Freshly Pressed page. The New York Times has decreased its 20 free articles per month to 10. That’s not good news for people with no money, like myself....
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Weekly Roundup #2
Aside from it being Christmas and all, lots of stuff happened this week. Here’s what was most interesting to me… Inside Germany’s campaign to free Khodorkovsky Bookstores are not dead. Strand Book...
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Challenging Bias & Recognizing When We’re Being Fooled
As someone who (admittedly) used to be 100% convinced of my rightness on most issues on which I had an opinion, the past few years put me in many positions in which I found myself to be either only...
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You’re Doing It Wrong & Everyone Else Is A Hero
. Have you noticed that there are suddenly (apparently) new and improved ways to do absolutely everything? . Go on your Facebook feed at any given moment and you’ll become privy to a whole new world...
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“This is how progress is made”
Some words to live by from a recent Irish Times article, The way we argue now: Combating motivated reasoning is exceptionally difficult, as it is often an evolved mechanism of “protecting” ourselves...
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Russophobia, bought journalists and willful ignorance
It’s Sunday — and that generally only means one thing: I’m sitting on the couch reading through all the stuff I didn’t get time to read earlier in the week. This week, as is usually the case lately,...
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RT UK, the NATO spin machine and ‘American exceptionalism’
With a fairly massive amount of lies being peddled in western media about Russia and the Ukraine crisis, it’s always nice to find things that are a.) logical and make sense, and b.) not full of...
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RT threatened with fines or revocation of license for lack of “impartiality”
So, the British communications regulator Ofcom, is threatening RT with fines, or in the worst case, a revocation of its license, for its supposed lack of “impartiality”. Be right back, have to go...
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