Providing news and information while helping aspiring writers and journalists, http://thesop.org/index.php?bio=marbrook http://thesop.org 118 67 http://thesop.org/images/thesop_118x67.jpg Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:24:00 GMT When you search the web using the key words forensic accounting and forensic economics you get the impression that it's all about litigation. http://thesop.org/journalism/2009/03/30/needed-forensic-business-journalists http://thesop.org/journalism/2009/03/30/needed-forensic-business-journalists dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:30:00 GMT Whenever you read the lead or off-lead story in a newspaper, whenever a TV anchor interrupts newscast to bring you breaking news, you can be pretty sure the real story is living its secret life unnoticed. http://thesop.org/journalism/2009/03/25/big-moneys-grab-for-the-internet http://thesop.org/journalism/2009/03/25/big-moneys-grab-for-the-internet dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) 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/hot/2008/09/23/and-now-the-do-it-yourself-newspaper http://thesop.org/hot/2008/09/23/and-now-the-do-it-yourself-newspaper dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:25:00 GMT Nobody foresaw a postindustrial age in which industry would subside or go overseas and a service economy would emerge. http://thesop.org/journalism/2008/09/18/business-journalism-on-the-wrong-track http://thesop.org/journalism/2008/09/18/business-journalism-on-the-wrong-track dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:30:00 GMT There is nothing like reading something you have written aloud for finding and http://thesop.org/hot/2008/07/25/hot-copy-44-editing-means-listening-as-well-as-reading http://thesop.org/hot/2008/07/25/hot-copy-44-editing-means-listening-as-well-as-reading dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:38:00 GMT Theres a crucial difference between balanced reporting and insightful reporting. http://thesop.org/hot/2008/06/13/news-for-laughs-vs-news-for-vision http://thesop.org/hot/2008/06/13/news-for-laughs-vs-news-for-vision dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) 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/hot/2008/06/06/when-the-press-waffles-democracy-falters http://thesop.org/hot/2008/06/06/when-the-press-waffles-democracy-falters dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 16 May 2008 15:38:00 GMT One of the reasons I cherish The New York Times is its institutional eye for the easy-to-overlook and profound. http://thesop.org/journalism/2008/05/16/hot-copy-the-socialization-of-news-and-imagery http://thesop.org/journalism/2008/05/16/hot-copy-the-socialization-of-news-and-imagery dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:44:00 GMT There is never any reportage about whether there should be any more obligation in American society to limit profit margins in order to share more with workers. http://thesop.org/journalism/2008/04/15/the-press-as-a-red-herring-fishery http://thesop.org/journalism/2008/04/15/the-press-as-a-red-herring-fishery dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) 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/hot/2008/03/24/the-wire-a-bleak-picture http://thesop.org/hot/2008/03/24/the-wire-a-bleak-picture dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) 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/hot/2008/02/25/editing-is-not-about-you http://thesop.org/hot/2008/02/25/editing-is-not-about-you dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:53:00 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/journalism/2008/01/25/circus-journalism-distracting-the-masses http://thesop.org/journalism/2008/01/25/circus-journalism-distracting-the-masses dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) 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/hot/2007/12/30/journalism-is-about-listening http://thesop.org/hot/2007/12/30/journalism-is-about-listening dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 7 Dec 2007 21:12:00 GMT Driven by pressure to perform for profit-takers, the print and electronic press seem to be moving away from the very direction they should be going towards. http://thesop.org/journalism/2007/12/07/welcome-to-steady-stream-journalism http://thesop.org/journalism/2007/12/07/welcome-to-steady-stream-journalism dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:24:00 GMT If you imagine any subject as a puzzle with a thousand pieces you can begin to visualize how the press covers the news. http://thesop.org/journalism/2007/11/12/the-story-behind-those-fires http://thesop.org/journalism/2007/11/12/the-story-behind-those-fires dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor))