Jim Slusher
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Openness in an hour of pain is a gift to rest of usAug 23, 2012 6:27 am - This column is my expression of thanks to all those people who, in the midst of the deepest suffering, take some time out to describe the source of their grief with a lo...
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In fiction as in fact, credibility is king for papersAug 16, 2012 9:05 am - The tweet from longtime newspaper blogger Jim Romenesko was not to be resisted. “Netflix says ‘State of Play’ is the most popular newspaper film. (“Zodiac” is #2 and ‘Ci...
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The worthwhile risk of taking a discomforting callAug 02, 2012 5:00 am - You never know in this job who you’re going to be talking to when you pick up the telephone, caller ID or no caller ID. It may be a cantankerous old curmudgeon, angry be...
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Amid campaign heat, be vigilant to keep your coolJul 26, 2012 5:00 am - Today I want to pick up on a theme the Daily Herald raised a little more than two weeks ago with an editorial titled “Duckworth, Walsh and the politics of gotcha.” In th...
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In ‘rough draft,’ we err on the side of inclusionJul 12, 2012 10:10 am - The newspaper is sometimes called a rough draft of history. In that sense, the Letters to the Editor column, or Fence Post in the Daily Herald, can be very much like a r...
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Watergate and watchdogs — the duty remainsJun 14, 2012 5:00 am - It would be less than accurate to suggest that The Washington Post’s reporting on the Watergate scandal initiated modern-day investigative journalism, but it certainly g...
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Newspapers and the role of listening in public debateJun 07, 2012 5:00 am - And listen to others. Even the dull and ignorant. They too have their stories. --”Desiderata,” Max Ehrmann What is so bad about listening, especially about listening to ...
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The delicate art of keeping letters lively, civilizedMay 24, 2012 5:00 am - Letters, we get letters. And most of them need the close attention of an editor. And sometimes they don’t get as much as they should. In the first case: The mission of F...
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Sometimes, ‘the funnies’ aren’t just about funMay 17, 2012 1:09 pm - My grandmother used to call them “the funnies.” The diminutive term suggested both that everyone agreed on the mission of the comics and that that mission was more frivo...
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It’s not we who do the comforting and the afflictingMay 10, 2012 5:00 am - It may be true, as some suggest, that one function of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, but it’s probably more true that our job is to...