Gentlemen, start your contrariness! Ten days before this week's swoop-down of 15,000 journalists (including a handful of us from reason) onto Denver for the Democratic National Convention, two media harrumphers I frequently agree with, Jack Shafer and
A couple of months ago I had a poor experience with Delta Air
Lines. Long story short, after Delta canceled a flight out of
Newark Airport to Atlanta (causing me to miss my connection to Sao
Paulo), I was rerouted to JFK, only to be told at the gate
It was 12:52 a.m. Saturday when CNN's John King reached a fourth source and reported that the senator from Illinois had chosen Joe Biden. That capped a week-long wallow in which journalists kept reporting and speculating that Obama might announce a
This weekend, as an estimated 15,000 reporters head to Denver for the Democratic National Convention, Slate’s Jack Shafer asks, why? There hasn’t been a contested nomination since 1976, he argues, and news organizations’ resources would be best put to
The indictment, handed up Tuesday, charges Charles Hermansen II, 46, with eluding police, aggravated assault while eluding police, assault by auto and aggravated assault on a volunteer firefighter.
The charges stem from Hermansen's alleged actions on
Bruce Springsteen
will perform at the Super Bowl next year -- and here's saying (again) that he'll
perform at Invesco Field at Mile High after Barack Obama's speech next
Thursday. Insiders who would know say it's a 95 percent sure thing. The night
will
For four days, the dignitaries met in the lush mountains of Aspen, Colorado, to debate the merits of new media and how to spark civic and global engagement. GroundReport.com produced the live webcast for the second year in a row, but joined the table
Despite my being in this remote region, I wasn't alone: people were travelling with me through the words of my blog The American journalist Jeff Jarvis has come by my house to interview me. Here I am, face to face with one of the most incisive
The Boston Globe reports, "Jill Carroll, the Christian Science Monitor reporter held hostage in Iraq for more than two months in 2006, will start recruit training at the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department in Virginia on Monday, said
The Guardian
As newspapers and other publications pare to the bone and then the marrow, media blogger Jeff Jarvis asks if editors are now a luxury the news media really need.
His premise is that the more original journalism that is done, the higher