Jim Slusher
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: Making room for a broader letters forumMar 24, 2022 1:00 am - "Letters, we get letters. We get stacks and stacks of letters," went a jingle for a comedy bit on the old "Late Show with David Letterman." We get them here at the Daily...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: A crisis for newspapers has produced benefits for readersMar 17, 2022 1:00 am - Political opponents have enjoyed taking Rahm Emanuel to task for his famous call to never let a crisis "go to waste," but the former Chicago mayor and current U.S. ambas...
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Even history's 'first draft' needs to include contextMar 10, 2022 12:00 am - When people refer to newspapers as, in the words of a famous phrase, "the first draft of history," they probably are thinking most about the history part. They should no...
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From the Editor: Our experts entering a new phase of COVID-19 coverageMar 07, 2022 12:00 am - Marni Pyke covered her first coronavirus press conference on Jan. 24, 2020. Chicago Health Commissioner Allison Arwady said officials were taking the disease "very serio...
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Cynicism and skepticism in the run-up to global conflictFeb 24, 2022 12:00 am - We talk often around the Daily Herald about the importance of distinguishing between cynicism and skepticism. The distinction seems especially timely in these dangerous ...
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The goal of portraying diversity in the suburbsJan 20, 2022 12:00 am - There was a time not so long ago in newspapering when about the only way readers would see the face of a Black person or other minority in the paper, and especially on t...
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Searching for truth in the vocabulary of democracyJan 06, 2022 12:00 am - By Jim Slusher Long before lyricist Don Raye put words to the music of Al Jacobs in 1940 to create the anthem "This Is My Country," we already were arguing over what Ame...
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Sometimes, knowing where to look can't find all the details you need for a storyDec 09, 2021 12:00 am - Oh, the things we do in the name of accuracy. Whether on Zoom or, as in those old days seemingly hundreds of years ago, in person, the afternoon news meeting of Daily He...
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Dec 06, 2021 12:00 am - Connecting to readers, and helping readers to connect to each other, through social media has become an integral part of the Daily Herald's mission as a community newspa...
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A Thanksgiving reminder of the abundance of good in the newsNov 25, 2021 12:00 am - A common contemporary cliché describes Thanksgiving Dinner as a homespun Rockwellian tableau trembling to mask the promise of political eruptions over events in the news...