Thirteen and a half hours of broadcasts on looting leave a day of impressions without a trace.
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A journalist’s moment of truth in a Nairobi slum
Debra Pickett writes a novel about a reporter who abandons her story
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Chicago man launches crusade to demote Tom Skilling from meteorologist to “weather guesser”
Cesar Ruelase thinks we shouldn’t believe everything the WGN broadcaster says.
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TV news didn’t bring down the mainstream media
Back when the wretched state of TV news vexed thoughtful minds.
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Why I like Anna Davlantes
I don’t really watch local news unless I happen upon it, so I can’t speak much to Anna Davlantes’s departure from NBC. But I found this endearing: researching something or other, I was reading old Straight Dopes and came across an inquiry from “Anna Davlantes, Evanston,” whom I can only presume was the Northwestern-educated anchor […]
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No news would have been better news than this
The annual media survey by the Pew Research Center reports chilling numbers from an industry in crisis.