Category Archives: Media
Giants scandal: Cheaters rob fans, teammates, honest athletes
Melky Cabrera/Getty Images The Olympics are over and for the most part, were clean. “Clean” as in only a few athletes were found to be using performance enhancing drugs. Good thing, because cheating takes all the joy from the competition, … 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
El Perfecto: The mark of Cain
“Not that I have already become perfect, but I press on …” — New Testament, Philippians 3:12 Perfection is maddening, confounding, confusing. We seem programmed to reach for elusive goals, always to be undone, unraveled by our manifold shortcomings and … Continue reading
Google Maps soon won’t know the way to iPhones
Apple may finally get its revenge against Google. The Wall Street Journal, citing interviews with Apple executives, reported this week that Apple will soon announce its own iPhone/iPad mapping service and thus boot Google Maps back to the Android world so … Continue reading
