July 2012
5 posts
How to cover the latest Penn State report →
I damn near have to look away every time I see something in the news on Sandusky. The level of depravity, particularly by those who protected the guy, defies comprehension.
Former FBI Chief Louis Freeh released a report this week condemning Penn State’s handling of the abuse. Poynter’s ethicist Kelly McBride urges journalists to pay particular attention to how they cover the report....
Is the Web making us crazy? →
I’ll just say it: I do believe the Web can make you crazy, especially in that holy-shit-where-did-those-13-hours-go? kind of way. And I say that at the risk of eliciting sneers from the cheerleaders out there. The Web is not utopia, and any argument that downplays its seductive, addictive power is misguided.
But I get where some of those arguments are coming from. I’ve probably made them while in...
