Providing news and information while helping aspiring writers and journalists, http://thesop.org/categories/hot-1.php http://thesop.org/categories/hot-1.php http://thesop.org 118 67 http://thesop.org/images/thesop_118x67.jpg Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:56:00 GMT You could say that as far as the White House is concerned the war in Iraq has already been won, because the moneybags who supported Dick Cheney and George W. Bush have been stuffing the spoils of war into their carpetbags since Day One. http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2007/02/28/journalism-not-a-turn-key-business-hot-copy-18.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2007/02/28/journalism-not-a-turn-key-business-hot-copy-18.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:38:00 GMT Problems of attribution, plagiarism and fraud are directly related to the state of the news business, indeed the state of publishing in general. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2006/12/17/attribution-plagiarism-and-lies-part-2-hot-copy-12b.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2006/12/17/attribution-plagiarism-and-lies-part-2-hot-copy-12b.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:38:00 GMT Theres a crucial difference between balanced reporting and insightful reporting. You can listen to this difference by tuning into the Yes Network and listening to color commentator David Cone http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/06/13/news-for-laughs-vs-news-for-vision.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/06/13/news-for-laughs-vs-news-for-vision.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:19:00 GMT But journalism also enjoys special First Amendment privileges, because the Founding Fathers believed the republic would founder without an honest and protected Fourth Estate. http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2008/01/25/circus-journalism-distracting-the-masses.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2008/01/25/circus-journalism-distracting-the-masses.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:22:00 GMT I dont like trying to take in a whole museum in a single gulp. I invariably get intellectual reflux. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/09/23/and-now-the-do-it-yourself-newspaper.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/09/23/and-now-the-do-it-yourself-newspaper.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:30:00 GMT There is nothing like reading something you have written aloud for finding and http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/07/25/hot-copy-44-editing-means-listening-as-well-as-reading.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/07/25/hot-copy-44-editing-means-listening-as-well-as-reading.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:25:00 GMT McClellan says the press didnt do its job. He says that no matter how he sliced it the press readily swallowed his daily servings of baloney. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/06/06/when-the-press-waffles-democracy-falters.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/06/06/when-the-press-waffles-democracy-falters.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:00:00 GMT Sometimes it?s hard to say just when the heyday of a great institution was. I had the great privilege of working briefly for The Baltimore Sun in the mid-1960s. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/03/24/the-wire-a-bleak-picture.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/03/24/the-wire-a-bleak-picture.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:53:00 GMT The book industry has suffered a similar fate. And it shows. And as for television, those quasi-literate crawls are enough to give you the creeps, provided of course you notice. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/02/25/editing-is-not-about-you.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/02/25/editing-is-not-about-you.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:03:00 GMT Let us now praise famous men, James Agee said famously. Journalism certainly does that. Probably too much, especially in a public relations age when you can become famous for being famous. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/12/30/journalism-is-about-listening.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/12/30/journalism-is-about-listening.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:58:00 GMT We?re in a strange place in American journalism. The great print http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/09/21/are-we-getting-the-news-we-want-hot-copy-32.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/09/21/are-we-getting-the-news-we-want-hot-copy-32.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:11:00 GMT Strange as it might seem, silence is an important element in good journalism, and in these days of Botox journalism it?s in short supply. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/08/27/the-high-cost-of-juicing-up-journalism-hot-copy-31.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/08/27/the-high-cost-of-juicing-up-journalism-hot-copy-31.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:42:00 GMT United States foreign policy is predicated on promoting democratic institutions. When you consider such institutions, the right to vote and a free press are paramount among them. http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2007/06/29/a-free-or-a-free-er-press-hot-copy-27.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2007/06/29/a-free-or-a-free-er-press-hot-copy-27.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:27:00 GMT I?ve been working with the student collaborators of The Student Operated Press long enough now to discern a pattern of behavior among them that surprises and disquiets me. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/04/16/do-we-need-editors-hot-copy-22.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/04/16/do-we-need-editors-hot-copy-22.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2) Fri, 6 Apr 2007 17:59:00 GMT If you?ve been listening to Hot Copy you?ve probably gotten the idea that I think the big stories are often lost in the fog of everyday stories. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/04/06/the-whir-of-the-great-spin-machine-hot-copy-21.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/04/06/the-whir-of-the-great-spin-machine-hot-copy-21.php contribute@thesop.org (SOP newswire2)