In my mind, words and language have always been important. (No surprise.) I delighted in the increased attention to inclusive language in communication over the years because it reflected a growing awareness that language does not merely reflect the way we think: it also shapes our thinking. Today we know that if words and expressions [...]
Recent events combined to make me decide it was time to shake up my daily media habits. Here's why media literacy is not just for you and your family.
So your business story made the newspaper but it’s wrong. At least that’s how you may see it when something you’ve said has come back to haunt you. Or, perhaps there was a fact, date or name that was incorrect. Clients sometimes ask if we would request that a news editor retract a story in [...]
If you’re a word person with stories to share, have you ever wondered what your options are for (occasionally and easily) adding video shorts to your blog posts? A video blogger creates a video blog by using primarily video— and you have no desire to go there — but that doesn’t mean you cannot see [...]
Some things never change — for example, my aversion to our home phone ringing at any time of day. It's true, I cringe and sigh in total exasperation every single time the phone rings. I don’t mind the blinking on the answering machine at all (because “YES! I MISSED a call! Great!) But when the phone rings, [...]
The changing media landscape has brought both good news and bad news. Futurist and author Dan Gillmor highlighted both sides of the changing media environment in a recent talk — and there are many implications for writers and consumers of media in any format.
Recent events in Boston and to some extent in Newtown have brought to light a lot of misreporting in the media regarding crises. We are all human and do make mistakes, however some of this misreporting goes beyond that. News today is competitive and journalists want to be the ones to break the story, but [...]
