Category Archives: Journalism
Ballad of Hunter Pence: Divine intervention for Giants?
As the San Francisco Giants unlikely postseason moved Monday night to the almost surreal — surviving six do-or-die elimination games and moving on to their second World Series in three years — the moment became an occasion once again for … Continue reading
Election season off and running
Once upon a time — oh, maybe four years ago — the general election season began in earnest after Labor Day. The national political conventions were over, families were back from vacation with the kids in school, and state and … Continue reading
Deadly gang violence never far away
Family grieves Thursday over Joey Mendoza. Sentinel photo/Shmuel Thaler Gang violence is a scourge and blight on the community. Sadly, it almost always is out of sight, out of mind for many people.Except when it involves kids. So when a … Continue reading
Streaming of consciousness: Olympics in 140 characters — or more
TMI. Has the ongoing debate about Olympics’ media coverage uncovered a new trend? Could it be that Americans’ incessant desire for near-instant posts, entertainment, tweets and Facebook updates, is suffering from a groaning sense of overload rather than faster download … Continue reading
Let the Olympic hyperbole begin!
Seventeen-year-old Amelia Hempleman-Adams held the Olympic torch aloft as she stood on top of one of the capsules on the iconic London Eye, on Sunday, July 22 The Olympics open Friday after a summerlong buildup that may promise more … Continue reading
Dark night: The loner with the orange hair
By now, we’ve almost become numbed by the report of yet another mass murder. Although the victims and the methods are often different, a couple of things remain the same. The awful senselessness of tragedy and lives, usually young, … Continue reading
The Newsroom: Sanctimony from the media elite
After two episodes of Aaron Sorkin’s much hyped new HBO series, The Newsroom, I was willing to move past the lecturing, silly subplots and obvious bias and see if the show could improve from its deadly early reviews. Didn’t happen. … Continue reading
Hollow leaders failed miserably at Penn State
There have been calls to remove this statue of Joe Paterno outside Penn State’s football stadium/Getty Images “From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all … Continue reading
Print newspapers: Not a picayune matter
Last I looked, the furor over the decision by the Newhouse family to scale back New Orleans’ daily newspaper, the Times-Picayune, to three times a week starting in the fall had not abated. The paper’s website, NOLA.com, reported this week … Continue reading
Flawed law led to tragic mistake
Mistakes happen. As callous as that sounds, this one contributed to the death of Shannon Colllins. And as horrifying as the cold-blooded murder of the 38-year-old local woman by a paroled convict with mental issues was for this community, casting all … Continue reading
