At some point, editorial omission stops being incidental. It becomes patterned, predictable, and eventually, it becomes policy. The modern debate […]
Terry Tracy: You can’t save a free press by putting it on the public payroll
The press is the “chief democratic instrument of freedom,” Alexis de Tocqueville once observed. The United States Constitution goes further: […]
Thom Nickels: The Associated Press gone fully Orwellian
There was no AP Style book when I was in journalism school, but there was an AP satellite office next […]
Tom Sofield: Taxpayers are paying a “Legacy Tax” for public notices
Whether it’s a school board deciding on a several-hundred million dollar budget with a tax hike or the supervisors or […]
Jeff Cole: Reporting on death and guns
The call came on a Friday evening around 11 into the emergency room at Saint Francis Hospital in Connecticut’s capital, […]
John Rossi: Four Quarters and me
One of the pleasures of my fifty plus years teaching at La Salle College, then University, was the school’s literary […]
Thom Nickels: The new journalism? Two can play at that game.
There aren’t that many daring “street activist” conservatives in Philadelphia who’ve adopted an in-your-face style that’s decidedly leftist in its […]
Jeff Cole: Covering Shapiro
Josh Shapiro bounds across the stage at a Philadelphia community center sporting the costume of a careful, calculating politician on […]
