A balancing act in an unbalanced world
A reader posted a blog comment the other day, saying, “How about more balanced coverage of the invasion of Lebanon? The US media heavily promotes the Israeli viewpoint of the situation; the rest of the...
View ArticleThe pen remains the mightiest weapon
When age-old enemies are locked in mortal combat, sorting out the information about the situation becomes very tricky. We’ve received a few phone calls here at the Times Union asking how we go about...
View ArticleLending a hand
The late comic Sam Kinison used to do a standup riff on journalists covering victims of famine in Africa. “Instead of just taking pictures of starving people, why don’t they share a sandwich with...
View ArticleHaute couture, Iranian style
Every so often, I get a call from a reader questioning the modesty, or lack thereof, of an ad we’ve published. Being a denizen of the newsroom, that literally is not my department, but it is something...
View ArticleDigging out the truth inside Cuba
Reporting on what’s happening behind closed government doors is tough enough in a so-called open society such as ours. Even if we occasionally have to go to court to force some openness, as we did...
View ArticleJournalists who braved it all
COLORADO / CEESAY / BAHJAT / AMER You probably don’t know who Jesús Abad Colorado, Jamal Amer, Madi Ceesay and Atwar Bahjat are. Sad to say, most American journalists don’t, either. The Committee to...
View ArticleJournalists’ oral history of Iraq war
The Columbia Journalism Review is marking its 45th anniversary by interviewing nearly 50 journalists who have covered the war in Iraq, and creating an oral history from their anecdotes and insights....
View ArticleChina vs. a free press
“How will China, hardly a bastion of press freedom, cope with an invasion of 20,000 foreign journalists for the 2008 Olympics?” That’s the question posed by the University of Maryland’s American...
View ArticleSugar coated horror
Every so often, I get a call or an e-mail from a reader who complains that “the press” in general provides coverage of the Iraq war that is too negative. I resist the impulse to respond that providing...
View Article2011, a ‘clickable’ year
By Paul Grondahl, Staff writer We’ve crunched the numbers and online readers of timesunion.com have voted with their mouses to determine the most clicked-on stories and slideshows of 2011. The...
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