Media, particularly that which is meant to attract the indifference of youth, has to be more informed by the end user. Riding the El in Philadelphia, I see this truancy ad with Bill Cosby pretty often. Maybe I’m just cynical, but this seems so clearly to be an ad that completely ignores its audience. This [...]

You just aren’t doing everything you can. It’s the seemingly unintentional, passive-aggressive jab that I sometimes get from older or otherwise more established journalists, writers and editors. Most often and in many ways, I’m sure the sentiment is pristine in its accuracy, often abutted by the never-to-be-defended-against “it takes time,” which, of course is always [...]

Editors have been cut. I assume there are more young journalists freelancing and those with staff jobs can’t be getting the same attention. College journalism professors are almost all naturally inclined to a generation no longer here. Who the hell is teaching the next generation of journalists? Number of Views:63

Oh, they matter. If you don’t think they do, you missed it. Last week, I shook the hand of another young journalist. I suppose he felt eye-contact was uncomfortable, so he looked down, offered me an awkwardly limp, motionless form of his hand for a second and pulled away. It was a train wreck of [...]