Jim Slusher
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Words and the difference between influence, informationOct 10, 2013 5:00 am - Which approach to national health care do you prefer, Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act? It’s an important question that underpins the Daily Herald’s policy regarding...
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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...