Jim Slusher
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Making sure rhetoric is not 'out of whack'Jul 21, 2016 1:00 am - I was casting about vainly for a powerful and appropriate lead to a column about perspective and police-community relations, when what should fall out of cyberspace but,...
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Anatomy of a front page designed as news events unfoldJul 14, 2016 1:00 am - When editors were mapping out last Friday's print editions in our Thursday afternoon news meeting, we faced an option regarding the issue of police shootings. Wire news ...
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Slusher: About Wednesday's front-page editorialJun 27, 2016 11:00 pm - On Wednesday, the Daily Herald is doing something we haven't done in more than three decades, if ever. We're publishing our editorial opinion on the front-page of the ne...
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Information is power; use it responsiblyJun 23, 2016 1:00 am - Following the terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport in March, news organizations, including the Daily Herald, faced an achingly familiar quandary. What pictures shou...
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Slusher: The role of eloquence in nudging the worldJun 16, 2016 1:00 am - One gropes, one claws, one prays for eloquence. For some of us, words are all we know, our only tool for taking the measure of an often beautiful, often miserable world....
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Slusher: Candy, meat and the art of making newsMay 26, 2016 1:00 am - There is making the news and then there is making the news. The two aren't always the same. Lake County Board Chairman Aaron Lawlor made news last week when he withdrew ...
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Slusher: Awards or no awards, our goal is making life a little betterMay 12, 2016 1:00 am - Today, some random thoughts journalistic: • The Daily Herald works hard to help better the suburbs and the communities we serve. Projects big and small with that purpose...
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The gift of an Opinion page without You Know WhoMay 05, 2016 1:00 am - Today's Opinion Page is a gift of sorts. Consider it a little cleansing breath before the halitosis that now appears certain to come this summer. With the fallout from T...
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A word to letter writers, keep off the AstroTurfApr 28, 2016 1:00 am - For many people, the term "AstroTurf" brings to mind images of professional football players, autumn afternoons and damaged knees. For those of us who deal with letters ...
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Slusher: Simple mantra of news judgment worth repeating in complicated timesApr 20, 2016 11:00 pm - Useful. Different. Relevant. Time was, those were the three most important words in the Daily Herald newsroom, as close to a collective mantra as a body of committed ske...