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Our reporter is on the ground

by Bill on March 30, 2010

Expressions are so confusing. Currently, when stories break in places like Haiti, Chile, Afghanistan and others, reporters that go to cover the stories tell us what is happening. When they get to the locations and begin filing their reports, I always hear, “Our reporter is on the ground …” Do they have options? Could they, [...]

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Literacy is a prerequisite for independence

by Bill on September 23, 2009

I’m not sure whether I should thank David Campbell or curse him. A week or so late I came across his post Literacy and have been preoccupied by the topic ever since. Here’s what I put on Twitter and it encapsulates what my thinking has been: If you are not literate, you cede control over [...]

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Readers have responsibilities too

by Bill on July 29, 2009

I saw some tweets to a post, The Trouble With Twitter (Melissa Hart, The Chronicle review), and something occurred to me. The essay is another of the many Twitter critiques that, personally, I’m finding a bit tiresome. After reading it, I thought that what it amounted to was, “I don’t want to change.” That’s fine. [...]

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Telegraph-Journal and credibility

by Bill on July 28, 2009

A few days ago I posted You are what you post. While I had something completely different in mind, that same headline is even more relevant to today with the Telegraph-Journal, the primary newspaper in Saint John, New Brunswick. Today they printed and posted an apology to Canada’s Prime Minister and two of it’s reporters [...]

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Journalism again – how to see it

by Bill on May 21, 2009

Through a tweet (@davewiner) I came across a column on the Christian Science Monitor. It was by Robert G. Picard and was titled Why journalists deserve low pay. I think it says in a much better way (as in clearer) what I’ve been getting at in a few of my posts. His headline, of course, [...]

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Mooer’s Law and online content

by Bill on May 6, 2009

Are you familiar with Mooer’s Law? It goes like this: An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it. Where an information retrieval system tends not to be used, a more capable information retrieval [...]

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