A post on how the public views the craft of reportage, this time in response to the venerable Jack Cahill. He was saying how he's never had to wipe spit off his face after telling someone he was a journalist (OK, my words, not his). My point was that people like journos. What they don't like is The Media.

Here is an exchange I had on CAJ-L with Ryerson j-prof John Miller, an extension of my earlier post, On timidity and being a team player.

U.S. broadcast journalism legend Bill Moyers says goodbye tonight from his Public TV pulpit. He's going down swinging!

An excerpt from an NYT story:

The NYT's Frank Rich holds forth on the bleatings of the Christian right, how their influence is magnified in TV news, and why some minority Christian views get ignored altogether.

Some excerpts:

I became acquainted with Don McGillivray when I served on the CAJ board from 1989 to 1994. On several occasions, I stayed at his home.

He was a gracious, generous host. For someone who cut ...   more »

Frank -- the gossip rag that brought such important new terms as "fartcatcher" to the Canadian lexicon -- has died. I'm glad someone told me. How else would I have known?