The sad aspect of downsized newsrooms means that news quality and breadth of coverage suffers. Along with this, as traditional news grapples with how to handle the social aspect of online media, the distortions of information occur to rampant degrees. Anonymous commenting appears to have become the sustaining mechanism of online advertising for many news [...]
September 1, 2009
I’ve been thinking recently about the generational gap, real or perceived, in social media use. I’m not sure it’s generational. I think it’s more accurate to say that being savvy with social media falls better into paradigm of literacy, such as public relations literacy, computer literacy and now, social media literacy. Age isn’t the gap-maker, [...]
July 18, 2009
I’ve heard PR people take issue with organizational objectives simply because it violated a personal belief. When that is the case, the PR person should find another job; conversely, if I were the CEO of an organization where a PR person had difficulty with the organization’s mission and suggested policy changes, I would be tempted [...]
June 19, 2009
Palin necessarily stood up for herself and her family in order to get to a resolution with Letterman.
June 15, 2009
AAUP censure likely to be lifted It was reported today that Tulane University is likely to have its censure lifted as it negotiates with its faculty and the American Association of University Professors. I wrote two years ago about the debacle faced by Katrina-affected universities who were hit with censure by the AAUP for alleged violations of [...]
September 18, 2009
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