BackboneAmerica

In recent years several major metropolitan newspapers have gone out of business and more have cut back considerably on their coverage. (more…)

These are the times that try journalists’ souls, to paraphrase Thomas Paine, as newspapers try mightily to survive in an exponentially (more…)

(Denver Post, Jan. 18) You, a captive of the media? No way. Nobody mediates for you. You think independently. You gather your own information and decide for yourself. Me too. We don’t need no media mediating for us, no sir. Yeah, right. In our dreams, maybe, but not in America today. The world is so interconnected, changes so fast, and presents each person with so many choices, that reliance on others for much of our knowledge is inescapable. But which media can we trust, (more…)

(From PoliticsWest.com) Realization: I’ve been posting less here lately, and more on Facebook and Twitter. The quick shots and impulsive (more…)

I’ve been learning Facebook and Twitter in recent weeks, finding them worth the investment of time. Twitter is essentially a chatroom (more…)