studying the media ecosystem
Collage by Doug Millison of NonHuman Communications
My name is Tom Abate and I’ve been a daily newspaper reporter since 1992. I was 37 when I got my first daily job after I reinvented myself out of the typesetting industry, a craft that was then disappearing. Now part of me feels like it’s deja vu all [...]
Some folks have rocks in their head; big rocks
(I’m camping out at Joshua Tree National Park on a soul-searching expedition in preparation for some future writings. This previously-published blog entry is indicative of my line of thought.)
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Bumper sticks were handed out in the newsroom yesterday: Democracy Depends on Journalism. This lovely and largely true slogan was [...]
To Eric Brazil who told me of the beauty of the desert bloom
(I’m still at Joshua Tree National Park pondering the future of the Fourth Estate and my role in it. This prior posting is suggestive of my line of thought.)
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The great hope of hard-pressed newspapers has been that their online traffic and revenues would rise soon enough and fast enough to replace their evaporating print [...]
To start my mind a-wandering
(I’m at Joshua Tree National Park dreaming up some future blog postings. This is a rerunn of a previously-written post that is suggestive of my thinking.)
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Tsk, tsk on Paid Content today for taking a snarky potshot at Yahoo’s Hot Zone, the series in which ( dangerously handsome) roving reporter Kevin Sites serves up pathos [...]
Nothing like nothing to clear the mind
(I’m doing some thinking in preparation for some future blog postings. This is a rerunn of a previously-written post that is suggestive of my thinking. FYI the person shown is Lindsay Fincher who I don’t know but I liked the picture.)
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Let me briefly introduce two items today and invite you to click through this cover [...]
Myrna Loy, Fredric March & Teresa Wright
They sure don’t make ‘em like they used to, movies, marriages, jobs. Take the 1946 film classic, “The Best Years of our Lives,” the story of three returning World War II veterans who meet by chance on the way home and whose lives become entangled. At one point, Teresa Wright, who has fallen in [...]
Edwin R. Newman says: use your words (carefully) journalists
In his 1974 book, Strictly Speaking, former NBC newscaster Edwin R. Newman warned that mass media were polluting public discourse with “banalities, cliches, pomposities, redundancies and catchphrases.” Alas his warnings fall on deaf ears. Fast forward three decades and journalists have become so accustomed to accepting mealy-mouth [...]
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