Monthly Archives: July 2018

All Politics Is Local? That’s News to Me!

Posted on July 27, 2018 by Bill Schmitt

I grew up reading the New York Daily News and other local papers available on Long Island. Perhaps the biggest take-away message from my newspaper habit–and the most influential message, since I wound up becoming a journalist–was that local news is fun. … Continue reading →

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Society’s High Stakes, High Tensions, High Hopes

Posted on July 22, 2018 by Bill Schmitt

A Reflection from C-Span’s BookTV “We’re at a point in the course of social evolution when the demands of survival converge with the higher ideals of humanity and the well-being of human society.” That’s an observation at the close of A … Continue reading →

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Reap with Those Who Reap?

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Bill Schmitt

I had not heard about the game show, “Paid Off,” until I read a poignant new piece in The Huffington Post. It  It describes a case of replacing news with entertainment–a case I think has relevance to Pope Francis’ 2018 World Day … Continue reading →

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No Civil War, but a “Civility” War?

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Bill Schmitt

“Civility, whatever that is….” That’s a phrase used in a recent post I found at the Columbia Journalism Review online. The June 27 piece by Matthew Ingram is an important, carefully considered collection of news and commentary where the use of the word … Continue reading →

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A News Media-tor for a “Peace Movement”

Posted on July 8, 2018 by Bill Schmitt

Riffing on the recent news that Jerry Springer is ceasing his violence-prone TV show after some 4,000 episodes, Greg Gutfeld of the Fox News Channel joked that, nowadays in our contentious political culture, “every day is the Jerry Springer Show.” … Continue reading →

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