Jim Lehrer, the old school journalist who helped invent a sane and sober television news program on public television that he co-hosted...

The journalist and social critic H.L. Mencken was made for the Trump era. Unfortunately Mencken, a guy given to using words such as...

“By the way, newspapers are the first of over 50 companies that I started where my employees tell me how to run my business.” Sheldon...

“Get ready for the “Bush Rebounds” stories. You heard it hear first.” One of my less-than-perfect predictions from 2015 ——— In the spirit...

“The CDO – collateralized debt obligation – was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America....

Tom Wicker was a southern liberal, born and educated in North Carolina and passionate about civil rights and civil liberties. He also...

So, no George on the trip to Varenna and Bellagio – the one on the big lake in Italy, not on The Strip in Nevada. I remember lovely...

On Tuesday morning June, 23 1942 the Portland Oregonian newspaper reported on the details of a Japanese naval attack on the United States...

By now, unless you don’t follow what passes for serious news these days, you know that Woodward, the more famous half of Woodward and...

The Longest Day – about the D-Day invasion of France in 1944 and was, in turn, telling his own father about the film. The old man listens...

This may be the most famous photo of the many famous photos of the famous CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite. The grainy, black and white...

I’m old enough to remember when the mailman brought LIFE magazine to our house. It was a big event every week. The magazine was a coffee...

I’m a news junkie. I consume newspapers, radio, television, the Internet, blogs and more like some folks consume cans of Coke or bags of...

I didn’t know Pat Murphy well. I wish I had known him better. What I did know and observe firsthand about the former Arizona Republic...

Loyal readers at this spot know that I occasionally rage against the dying of the light of local journalism. The days of independent,...

I’m thinking as I read about each new revelation in the widening Rupert Murdoch/tabloid/police/political scandal in Britain that we...

You could not look at a website or pick up a paper over the weekend without seeing the nearly minute-by-minute coverage of the latest...

Good Columnist, Good Guy The Idaho Statesman in Boise and the paper’s readers said so long this weekend to long-time columnist/reporter...

Fascinating piece by the Public Editor of The New York Times this past weekend taking the gray lady to task for not preserving “its...

In the last few years it became “inside the beltway” sport for some to denigrate the kind of journalism that Dave Broder practiced for so...