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 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 dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) 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 dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) 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 dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) 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 dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) 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/story/journalism/2009/03/30/needed-forensic-business-journalists.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2009/03/30/needed-forensic-business-journalists.php 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/story/journalism/2009/03/25/big-moneys-grab-for-the-internet.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2009/03/25/big-moneys-grab-for-the-internet.php 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/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 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/story/journalism/2008/09/18/business-journalism-on-the-wrong-track.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2008/09/18/business-journalism-on-the-wrong-track.php 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/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 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/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 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/story/journalism/2008/05/16/hot-copy-the-socialization-of-news-and-imagery.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2008/05/16/hot-copy-the-socialization-of-news-and-imagery.php 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/story/journalism/2008/04/15/the-press-as-a-red-herring-fishery.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2008/04/15/the-press-as-a-red-herring-fishery.php 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/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 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/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 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/story/hot/2007/12/30/journalism-is-about-listening.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/12/30/journalism-is-about-listening.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor))