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Currently ReadingRecently Read | I missed it when it was published last Friday but the NYT gave Jon Stewart some well-deserved love in a lengthy article asking, Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?. He is in my book and the article makes clear I’m not alone. It notes that in a 2007 poll by the Pew [...]            Tim August 20th, 2008 | Tags: Daily Show, Media, Politics | Category: Politics | 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 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 PostI saw at the end of my daily e-mail from the NYT that this is the 34th anniversary of Richard Nixon announcing his resignation. I remember exactly where I was when watching his speech and that the owner of the place bought beers for the house at its conclusion. Nixon was an essential player in [...] Tim August 8th, 2007 | Tags: Media, Politics | Category: Politics | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostPrudence would dictate staying out of this but it’s kind of like when the big kid is beating up the little kid. Even though you know you’ll probably get thrashed too, something compels you to open your mouth or intervene. Okay, so this is really blogger v. blogger but one is your typical personal blog [...] Tim January 17th, 2007 | Tags: blogs, local media, Media | Category: Media, State and local matters | 4 comments - (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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