Friday, November 05, 2010
Not Saving The World Through Journalism
Journalism Cannot Cure The World's Ills; It Can Only Provide Directions To The Emergency Room.
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(And sometimes the patient is still DOA at the hospital.)
Constantly Red-Faced in a Red State
The Old Prof is a 175-year-old (sic) retired journalism professor and semi-retired free-lance writer and editor. He likes long moonlit walks (but not too long -- the arthritis), long drinks of 30W motor oil, Zen Buddhism, and Coen Brothers movies. The only things he hates are hatefulness, hypocrisy, self-importance (definitely not Zen), enforced conformity (he now lives in a condo community, yes?) and censorship. He would rather ridicule than analyze, humiliate rather than debate reasonably (too much research involved). His role models are Gandhi and Mark Twain, his arch-enemies all those people on Fox News and the unholy religious right. To learn more about the Old Prof, visit http://pwp.franklincollege.edu/JMiller/ (All material on this blog are copyrighted by Jerry Miller)