The Silver City Daily Press is working with High Lonesome Radio to bring area listeners local news. Stating this morning, Stina Sieg, a Daily Press photographer and columnist, will appear on Nick Seibel’s Morning Show to give a quick note on what’s happening in the Silver City area. The news will run at 9 a.m. [...]

Take a look at this story from On The Media (a production of New York Public Radio) concerning the recently announced postal rate hikes: ROBERT McCHESNEY: They are the only game in town. So when the post office decides to give the best rates to the biggest firms, it’s basically protecting their market power and [...]

In a post that reminded me of my recent rant on “Old Media” vs. bloggers and other “amateurs,” Glenn Greenwald shows the incredible turnaround of the Washington Post editorial board: Even more than most national journalists, The Washington Post‘s Fred Hiatt has been a stalwart defender of the Bush administration with regard to the U.S. [...]

David Fryxell, publisher of the Desert Exposure, has an editor’s note in this month’s issue that caught my eye. Fryxell writes about bloggers and other “amateurs” and their responsibilities to readers. Fryxell also talks about things he’s learned as a journalist during the past 30 years. Now, I’ll be honest: I’ve only been a journalist [...]

Heath Haussamen, that enterprising independent reporter/blogger down in Las Cruces, has been online for one year: This site made its debut on March 20, 2006, with an article about former state Rep. William “Ed” Boykin’s plan to drop out of the race before the November election. [...] At the time, I was still a reporter [...]

I was a guest this weekend on the Insight New Mexico radio show, hosted by Eric Griego and produced by Suzanne Prescott. Unfortunately, the Albuquerque broadcast doesn’t quite make it to our neck of the woods. You’re lucky, however, because they’re podcasting the show too! You can download a copy of the show here (guests, [...]

I’ve seen a few bits and pieces on this, but I turn, as usual, to Kung Fu Monkey for the real

to be outraged about: The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter. Yet there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a [...]

Meant to link to this last week, but Heath Haussaman has a wonderful post online on opening conference committees: The truth is that public scrutiny of conference committees would make the job of lawmakers much more difficult. Their decisions would be questioned. They would be challenged to act in a more ethical manner. A wise [...]

I mentioned KFM yesterday, but I feel like copy and pasting this entire post: That’s the problem, as always – the peasants are revolting. Now that blogs have given them a publishing voice, why the national discourse is destroyed. When Judith Miller corrupted the New York Times in order to print lies about WMD’s and [...]

One of progressives’ favorite voices was silenced today: Best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, the sharp-witted liberal who skewered the political establishment and referred to President Bush as “Shrub,” died Wednesday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 62. David Pasztor, managing editor of the Texas Observer, confirmed her death. The writer, who [...]

As a reporter, I’m not infallible. I know this, and I know I make mistakes (and I readily admit them when they’re pointed out to me). That’s why this kind of thing makes me sad: Another, perhaps even more disturbing, press deception revolved around Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and the announcement he made from the [...]