Yes, the time has come for each of you ink-stained wretches to park your Prius and go drive a tractor. (Oh, bring your vodka with you.) Stumbling through the internet...
Yes, the time has come for each of you ink-stained wretches to park your Prius and go drive a tractor. (Oh, bring your vodka with you.) Stumbling through the internet...
From Salmagundi, a series of satirical pamphlets written by Washington Irving, his brothers and friends in New York City from January 1807 to January 1808. The...
Ooops. It seems I was mistaken yesterday when I wrote that short item on Facebook about the brains behind F64’s successful PR stunt a few days ago - the one that...
Allow me to revisit my short comment from the other day about Romania Libera’s interview with President Basescu. It seems that based on some questions and comments I...
A Simple Conclusion Feel free to dismiss all of this. After all, I’m from the US. What do I know? Things are different here. That’s what some people tell me. Perhaps...
“A Line That Moves Is No Line At All” I hope we all agree that theoretically, somewhere, there exists a line between what editorial does and what advertising should be...
“No matter what you think, your publication is not your product.” (An introduction to journalism that even the owners can understand – I hope.) The previous blog...
“If their ideas are so good, let advertising write the stories.” When I was a journalist (and I hope it’s still this way in the US) if an advertising executive walked...
“So what’s the problem? We didn’t tell them what to write.” Why did I pick this one example, the automated insertion of an advertising link into the editorial product,...
“Why I Stopped Writing for Dilema Veche” I didn’t think journalistic standards could get much lower in Romania. I was wrong. Thanks to a combination of the mindless...
I am against child abuse. You should be, too. But I’m not sure you are. Not enough anyway. And I want you to care. So to get you to care, I will soon publish photos....
[Originally published March 5, 2013, in Dilema Veche.] “I don’t know. But let me tell you.” I met my Romanian friend Remus for a drink the other night. When he invited...
[Originally broadcast on Sept. 28, 2009, on The Frank Show, here.] Some years back, I read a quote from a famous British editor who was asked what it takes to be a...