As much as it grieves me to say it, while “the good old days” and “blame it on the media” are simplistic cliches, in the space of two weeks, they have combined as a succinct summation of the state of the news business.… Read the rest
Re-immersing in news after a week off for travel, I stumbled into a story that could have come straight from “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!”, the now more than 100 year-old cartoon that specialises in things so strange, readers doubt their veracity. Hence this open letter to the new CBS News Editor-in-Chief.… Read the rest