Archive for the 'journal' Category

Roger Simon: on why the media should apologize

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13143.html
Roger Simon hits the nail on the head, here.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.
On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.
We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.
We have asked pathetic questions like: [...]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: There’s “no better job” than journalism.

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

‘There’s no better job’ than journalism: Garcia Marquez
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez hailed journalism as the best profession, in rare public comments in northern Mexico.
“There’s no better job” than journalism, said the 81-year-old author of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude,’ who started out as a journalist and often [...]

All this week…

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

I’m road-tripping out to the Democratic convention in Denver, blogging and shooting pictures along the way. Our updates are at http://www.billiondollarpresident.org/

I hate losing things, but I love finding them.

Friday, August 8th, 2008

As a kid, I spent a lot of years in constant motion between my divorced parents’ houses. I was never particularly good at keeping track of belongings — maybe because I had twice as many places any single object could be? — and for whatever reason, a recurring bad-dream theme was losing small, personal [...]

Returning, triumphant

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Two weeks away: one week in San Francisco, one in Hawai’i. Left New York City during a horrendous heat wave, which made the whole trip feel like we were pleasurably on the lam. In every respect I can think of, the trip was a phenomenal success, although sprinting back from Hawai’i (GMT -11:00) [...]