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Currently ReadingRecently Read | For a number of weeks, I’ve been observing the coverage of a news story in which I was somewhat involved. While I’m proud of the years I spent as a journalist, my view of the profession — already damaged when I left it — wasn’t bolstered by what I saw. I don’t think I’m breaking [...]            Tim February 27th, 2009 | Tags: local media, South Dakota Supreme Court | Category: Media, Personal/Family | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) |  Print This Post |  Email This PostThis weekend marked the end of two eras in South Dakota, one in the press and one in music. Although public knowledge for a while, Terry Woster officially said good bye Sunday with a front page column in the local daily. After 40 years in the news business, Terry took an early retirement package as [...] Tim December 22nd, 2008 | Tags: local media, Music, South Dakota miscellany | Category: Media, Music, State and local matters | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostThe hectic nature of the last couple weeks combined with the frigid temperatures to turn my ambition to molasses. PP eliminated any doubt of that with a post last night that echoed exactly what I thought but was too lazy to research and write a post about. Simply summarized, it seems Argus Exec Editor Randell [...] Tim February 21st, 2008 | Tags: blogs, local media, Media | Category: Blog/Internet, Media | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostThat’s my name for it but Regret The Error has announced its annual awards in media errors and corrections, which it calls Crunks 2007. The scope and variety of awards makes the entirety worth reading. Yet the following correction from The Sentinel-Review in Woodstock, Ontario, probably ranks as my favorite: In an article in Monday’s [...] Tim December 12th, 2007 | Tags: journalism, Media | Category: Media | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostIt’s one of those things that leaves a horrible feeling in your gut. This afternoon, my RSS reader popped up a South Dakota media blog post that Ron Bender of Rapid City was killed Monday in a hit-and-run accident in Gaithersburg, Md. Ron and his wife, Muriel Shepard, were at the Rapid City Journal [...] Tim November 27th, 2007 | Tags: local media, Media | Category: Media, Personal/Family | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostCalling it a magazine is unfair because it is so much more than that. Early last week I saw an internet reference to a new publication called Lapham’s Quarterly . It was referred to as a history related journal and treated as if it might be good for insomnia. Out of curiosity, though, I [...] Tim November 27th, 2007 | Tags: Media | Category: A Reading Life, Media | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostFor a guy who claimed Monday he was too busy to blog, Todd Epp had a couple excellent posts this week dealing with political labels. One is a nice post on the Socialist Club at Roosevelt High School. I was thinking about doing something on it because my youngest daughter is a junior at Roosevelt. [...] Tim October 5th, 2007 | Tags: local matters | Category: Media, State and local matters | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostThis was initially simply an item amidst some forthcoming marginalia but the more I read, the more exasperated and offended I became. David Newquist expresses the reaction I had on picking up the paper this morning and then catching up the whining, dismay and concern in the SD blogosphere (where the number of posts indicates [...] Tim August 25th, 2007 | Tags: Media, Politics, Tim Johnson | Category: Media, Politics | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostThe chance, however small, that our law firm might somehow become involved in the defamation lawsuit Dan Scott started this week against the Argus Leader and its editor, Randell Beck, demands circumspection. Thus, I won’t discuss or assess the merits of any allegations, the personalities or my personal views. Still, informed public discussion requires some [...] Tim August 17th, 2007 | Tags: First Amendment, journalism, Law, libel, local media, Media | Category: Law, Media | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostI was paging through the latest issue of the ABA Journal last night. As is my wont, I tend to at least scan the “Tech Audit” columns that appear in the back of the magazine. This time I did a bit of a double take. After reading a piece by the regular columnist headlined “The [...] Tim August 15th, 2007 | Tags: Media | Category: Media | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |         The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for my law partners, our associates, staff and clients or my family and friends. Not only should any opinions here not be attributed to them, chances are they probably don't agree with me.  | ||
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