Jim Slusher
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Are bad words related to success of newspapers?Sep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Today's challenge: To talk about language we don't use in the Daily Herald without using the language. This could be interesting. I recently engaged in a polite but test...
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Variety of tools let you direct political coverageAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Say what you will about the individual candidates, it is going to be an interesting election campaign season. The two key presidential candidates are smart and articulat...
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Personal life again becomes political newsAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - It should be understood at the outset that the John Edwards scandal is not something the Daily Herald would normally investigate, even if we were regular readers of the ...
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Even simple apostrophe can be complicatedAug 06, 2008 11:00 pm - A thoughtful reader recently wondered in an e-mail correspondence how our writers distinguish the punctuation in such phrases as Cubs' season and Cubs GM Jim Hendry or W...
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Casino series gives advantage of informationJul 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Whether you are a gambler or a staunch casino opponent, Joseph Ryan's series "House Advantage" shone a light this week on an aspect of the casino industry that you need ...
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On adversaries and protection of libertyJul 09, 2008 11:00 pm - First allow me to point out that Rod Blagojevich and Todd Stroger are both Democrats. For those of you who are convinced that the mainstream press is a tool of the Democ...
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'Rewizardry' just a natural part of paper's evolutionJul 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Here's a sentence they didn't prepare me for in journalism school: "Your column modules need to be rewizarded." Even the woman passing along this intriguing diagnosis - ...
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New Sunday section takes new look at TV, travel, things to doJun 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Change, we know, is inevitable. Change for the better is imperative. "Not only is everything changing, but everything exists in relationship to something else that is ch...
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How the pop star got top billing over the journalistJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - On this hand, a respected journalist; on that, a world-renowned music star. To me, the choice of which one people would most want to read about was a virtual no-brainer...
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Nuances of passion sometimes are key to deciding story playJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Prominent trials are followed passionately by some people -- but not all. It was a reasonable enough question for a wife to ask her husband three days before a high scho...