Virginia Satir once said: "We connect through our similarities. We grow through our differences." If we weren't so similar, we wouldn't be able to talk to each other. If we weren't so different, we wouldn't have anything to talk about.
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The Blog, The Press, The Media: Awww: Journalism That Changed America
Gene Patterson, the former editor of the St. Petersburg Times and a sort of patron saint around The Poynter Institute, urged journalists "don't just make a living, make a mark" with their work.
Journalists have "made a mark" already with their life-saving coverage of the hurricanes of 2005. And now, with the streets of some Gulf Coast towns still lined with debris, Americans have an unprecedented opportunity to make at least nine important and overdue changes that will make our nation stronger. Journalists have a vital role in helping the country understand the choices ahead.
• Year of the Storms: Lessons Learned & Stories Yet to be Told [The best Web Tips of the year Save This Tip 2005, Part I ; Imrich, self-appointed conscience of the chic and savvy ;-) As the cult of celebrity reaches higher and higher peaks of absurdity, we continue to be astonished by an readers that seem ready to fly the flags at half-mast for a trash-mouthed comic whose greatest accomplishment was to set himself on fire, while free-basing cocaine Cold River, the only thing that flows faster than the bullets...]
• · Trevor Cook: I continue to hold that change will not come from the centre (the big global businesses that unfortunately dominate the PR industry) but from the fringes; from independents and small agency people who can break free and try new approaches. Group of independent and small agency PR practitioners ; Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady What Makes A "Cronkite Moment"?
• · · If reader venom is a sign of normalcy, we can take comfort that Katrina did not wash it away entirely. Taking Aim At The Critic Times-Pic critic continues tradition of sharing nasty e-mails; The Ghosts of Internet Time
• · · · Maybe they just lost their nerve. Maybe they didn't want to tangle with a fiercely combative White House right before an election ... It’s tempting for Times people to say: no matter what we say, we are going to get slammed by the left and the right. But that’s an excuse for devaluing all criticism What were NYT bosses thinking when they held wiretaps story? ; WP's political blogger is "a newshound to the nth degree"
• · · · · To that end, we're asking for your help: Mail us or drop off your tattered copies of '1984 Oakland Tribune seeks copies of "1984" to send to politicos ; Fisk scolds U.S. journalists For not telling it like it is in war.
• · · · · · The Ten Most 'What the F***?' Moments of 2005 They Did What? ; Behold the power of us. It's the force behind the collective clamor of Weblogs that felled CBS (VIA ) anchorman Dan Rather and rocked the media establishment The Power Of Us