Jim Slusher
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A day to remember there are newsworthy blessings every dayNov 23, 2023 8:33 am - "The world is so full of a number of things," begins the famous Robert Louis Stevenson line from "A Child's Garden of Verses" that I'm sure you can finish without my hel...
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When a political cartoon, or any idea, strikes a nerveNov 15, 2023 5:18 am - For nearly the past week, a torrent of complaint messages have inundated my email along with that of other Daily Herald editors and executives and of our fencepost@daily...
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Where skinny dipping meets the skinny on news decisionsNov 15, 2023 4:34 pm - I have a pretty good feeling that if I told you this column were about the best places to go skinny dipping in Illinois, you'd be more inclined to read it, even if that ...
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Covering an increasingly vast news, entertainment, sports landscapeNov 02, 2023 10:44 am - Maybe you noticed. There's a World Series going on. Well, maybe it's over now. As I write on Wednesday afternoon, the Texas Rangers have a 3-1 advantage over the Arizona...
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Beware the propaganda lurking within the fog of warOct 20, 2023 2:44 pm - In his 19th century treatise "On War," military strategist and historian Carl von Clausewitz offers this observation that followers of news about war in the 21st century...
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Dealing with false equivalencies in the coverage of a foreign warOct 11, 2023 3:46 pm - As we began discussions Monday afternoon about how we would present the front-page description of the Israel-Gaza war, Daily Herald editors scrolled through picture afte...
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Banned books, newspapers, some personal history and the value of opennessOct 11, 2023 3:46 pm - Here in the midst of National Banned Books Week - not irrelevantly also National Newspaper Week -, I come in praise of my high school English teacher. I have had many oc...
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Anatomy of a front page: Photos, stories, shifting news valuesSep 28, 2023 1:00 am - What we at the Daily Herald and many other newspapers call the "centerpiece" has been a mainstay of our front-page design for at least four decades. The concept is a der...
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A social media era twist on a familiar adage about trustSep 21, 2023 1:00 am - This editorial is a consensus opinion of the Daily Herald Editorial Board. Newspapers have a variable relationship with social media. Speaking for the Daily Herald,...
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In and out of the news, diverse interests defy stereotypesSep 14, 2023 1:00 am - Sometimes we think of it as cosmic injustice, that some people should be unusually gifted not in one arena of life alone but in many. Questions of divinity and fairness ...