Jim Slusher
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Daily Herald editorial page strives to foster debateOct 08, 2013 6:59 am - Editor’s note: This article is part of a special series celebrating National Newspaper Week Oct. 6-12. The Week was designated in 1940 as a way to recognize the importan...
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Numbers don’t tell whole story in news decisionsSep 26, 2013 5:00 am - In the complex practice of employing news judgment, the role of numbers is not always as obvious as you might expect. Twenty-six shooting victims in a Chicago weekend ma...
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Letters a window on ideas that move communitySep 19, 2013 5:00 am - A colleague once quipped that while we often refer to the newspaper as a window to the community it serves, the real window is the letters to the editor column. And he h...
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Syria, sports and a haunting case of life imitating artSep 12, 2013 5:00 am - This week’s front pages put me hauntingly in mind of a play that opened in Washington, D.C., this spring and is running in New York this month. “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electr...
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The ‘More or Less Diet’ and the online news cycleSep 05, 2013 5:00 am - Yes, that headline is deliberately gratuitous. Here’s why: Ron Fournier, a national political commentator and former Associated Press executive, tweeted the following on...
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A timely perspective on what happens in schoolsAug 22, 2013 5:00 am - It’s hard to believe that whole weeks have passed since we’ve written or said anything about teacher pensions, even as the state’s debt to them accumulates at that now-m...
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Editorial sought to challenge a tired phraseAug 15, 2013 5:00 am - I got my first personal introduction to what has come to be known as NIMBY syndrome in Clinton, Iowa, back in the 1970s. As a cub reporter, I attended meeting after emot...
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Editorial voice and the question of judgmentsAug 01, 2013 5:00 am - A common refrain from people who disagree with a Daily Herald editorial factors down to something like, “Who died and made the Daily Herald the judge?” There is a simple...
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Facts, interpretations and matters of entitlementJul 25, 2013 5:00 am - A common expression asserts that we are all entitled to our own opinions but we are not entitled to our own facts. How about our interpretations regarding a fact? Or our...
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No hidden agenda in our approach to controversyJul 18, 2013 5:00 am - Controversy finds its way into the print and electronic pages of the Daily Herald primarily in two ways. It's incorrect to say we go out looking to start fights, but if,...