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“I have always felt most at home as a journalist, for I believe that the practice of journalism isn’t worth much unless one believes in its power to do good. So, I have often sought stories where some good was needed, where with luck, my journalism could bring change to someone’s hard life.”
Lynne Duke - Article: "Lynne Duke, Washington Post editor and writer, dies at 56."
Thank you Ms. Duke for the advice you gave to me a few years ago via email. My condolences to Mr. Dixon, former Journalism Dept. Chair at Howard Univ.
Alexa in the bag for Harris
Does anyone else find it strange that every time Big Tech gets caught trying to interfere in our elections, it's just an "Error?"
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (Dir: Alan J Pakula, 1976).
Sometimes you forget how powerful a storytelling medium film can be until you watch a truly great movie. Such is the case with Alan J Pakula’s masterpiece All the President’s Men. Goodness knows why it has taken me 45 years to finally watch it.
Recent events in US politics, and indeed the years leading up to them, may have de-sensitised some to political corruption or at least ruined their appetite for movies about political corruption. Fret thee not as All the President’s Men is less a film about politics, rather the investigative journalists who uncovered the Watergate scandal which eventually led to the impeachment of 37th US president Richard Nixon.
Read the full review on my blog JINGLE BONES MOVIE TIME! Link below:
An alternative definition for the word, submitted by Tom Witte to The Washington Post's neologism contest:
Sarchasm [sahr-kaz-uhm] n: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
