A Summary of the Undercover Food Lion Story The University of Nevada’s “J-week,” a series of cutting-edge journalism events running this week, is just about over. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend two lectures yesterday. Lynne Dale, former reporter and producer from ABC’s Primetime Live, gave a tell-all account of going undercover [...]
July 17, 2008
I’ve never been a fan. People who are quick to thrust themselves into the limelight at moment’s notice tend to, after awhile, raise suspicion as to true motives. Like most who publicly introduce others’ faults to the world with a high-level of shame, Jesse Jackson’s legacy of moralistic preaching is coming back to slap him [...]
May 2, 2008
I’m no Buddha*. And likely, neither are you. The amount of perfection expected for people is unrealistic and often contradictory. The world’s noted scandals are often the results of character flaws of familial, biological and sociocultural origins, of which most of us possess. Yet the bar is raised particularly high for public figures. It’s at [...]
March 13, 2008
Contrast how New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has handled his demise with Geraldine Ferraro, who also recently resigned from working on the Hillary Clinton campaign. Ferraro recently said of Barack Obama: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in [...]
August 13, 2007
Knowing when you’re under attack may seem obvious at first thought. The truth, however, is that any business or organization can come under attack for even innocuous reasons. The Information Age has made damning allegations that much more convenient to make, and these attacks most often have an online component–the Internet being the main medium of criticism. Individuals, [...]
March 6, 2009
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