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This is a message from an Angel. Can you relate? Is it yours?____Golden light shining in the darkness. That is how the universe sees you... [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/

Archive for August, 2008.. [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/category/journalism/

Archive for \'journalism\'.. [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/14/media-training-interview-prep-in-an-era-of-no-privacy-4-steps-to-avoid-becoming-media-roadkill/

“Privacy?There is no privacy. Get over it!” That comment just a few years ago by Scott McNeely, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, stated a condition that most people did not want to hear. A truth they did not want to believe. And a situation most people refused to deal with... [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/16/is-there-bias-in-mainstream-media/

In an independent survey in 2005, 70% of the Main Stream Media (MSM) admitted to being Liberal in their leanings. MSM is comprised of the so-called Big-3 Networks: CBS, ABC, and NBC... [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/15/propaganda-and-american-journalism-born-joined-at-birth/

Passion was the main stuff of journalism long before the Civil War, the birthplace of modern American journalism. The Press of the American Revolution during the War and before it, was borne of it. Newspapers then were not as we know them today. Weekly advertising mediums they were, but they were primarily opinion pieces designed to protect interests or to provoke the readership. They were propaganda organs in the truest sense. They were virtual flagpoles of ideology from which the editor could wave his political flag. As tools of political activism they often published articles of principles treating of various freedoms or governmental responsibilities, as the editors saw them to be, mostly by pseudonymous authors sometimes using names taken from the Greek or Roman classics like Cato or Ovid... [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/17/new-york-code-orange-jaisini-new-art-series/

The creativity of Jaisini is not designed to be preaching or too critical. Paul Jaisini reached his level of mastership to know exactly that life is worth living to look in the future having no regrets about the past... [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/18/passive-voice-avoiding-responsibility-or-putting-focus-where-it-belongs/

Many writers regard passive voice as something invented by the Devil himself. Evil, evil, evil. And, when used by writers to avoid placing responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the rightful subject of the sentence, passive voice is a pretty heinous thing. For example:.. [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/19/journalism-101-an-introduction-to-writing-for-publication/

1. Hemingway’s Rules__When Ernest Hemingway was a cadet journalist at the Kansas City Star he was given a style guide that included four basic rules he committed to memory. Apparently they served him well for the rest of his life... [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/20/franklin-method-ben-franklin-on-persuasion-and-writing/

Want to win an argument with your wife? Sell an idea to your boss? Write a persuasive editorial? Represent your nation in a foreign capitol?.. [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/21/language-of-the-lens/

Paris the most beautiful city in the world, was captured and frozen in time by the great master of photojournalism, Henri Cartier-Bresson, who brought beauty and a new dimension to an ordinary street scene. Photography, he once wrote is a spontaneous impulse which comes from perpetually looking, and which seizes the instant and its eternity... [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/22/a-tribute-to-katharine-graham/

Katharine Graham, chairman of the executive committee of The Washington Post Company and the author of Personal History, a memoir for which she received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, died July 17 at age 84... [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/23/the-outsourcing-rush/

Is it just me, or is the heat starting to go to everyone’s head south of the equator?.. [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/24/finding-freelance-journalism-work/

Writers today have so many choices should I work full time, should I be in print or broadcast media, how about freelance work? The path you choose to tread is “your own.” Never select a career based on the needs of family/friends/or popular opinion. The choice must stem from withinwhat is it you seek from your workmoney, a sense of fulfilment, and above all the freedom to choose?.. [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/25/how-i-became-a-syndicated-columnist-and-you-can-too/

Real Estate has “Location, location, location,” and writing has “Clips, clips, clips.”____When people ask me how I became a syndicated columnist, I usually say, “it just snowballed.” And basically that’s what happened: one publication led to another, which led to another, and so forth... [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/26/posting-rates-or-not/

There has been an ongoing debate amongst some of us who provide paid writing services for clientele. The debate revolves around a very important topic: should we post our rates onlineor not?.. [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/27/is-unrehearsed-photography-dead/

Gordon Parks, the famed photographer of the last century, died this year. He learned his trade here in the Midwest and perfected it in New York. Other photographers of fame of that era, Joe Schilling, James Whitmore, Hy Perkins, Bob Gomel, Ralph Morse, Paul Schutzer, Art Shay, and George Silk to name a few, were of the “Unrehearsed Photography School.”.. [Read more]

http://journalism-blog.wittybuzz.com/

Gordon Parks, the famed photographer of the last century, died this year. He learned his trade here in the Midwest and perfected it in New York. Other photographers of fame of that era, Joe Schilling, James Whitmore, Hy Perkins, Bob Gomel, Ralph Morse, Paul Schutzer, Art Shay, and George Silk to name a few, were of the “Unrehearsed Photography School.”.. [Read more]

http://motivation-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/

I’m a 26-year-old flight attendant engaged to be married in 10 weeks. Our wedding reception was to be held in a marquee in my in-laws’ garden. On Saturday night my future mother-in-law flipped out at my fianc.. [Read more]

http://motivation-blog.wittybuzz.com/category/motivation/

I’m a 26-year-old flight attendant engaged to be married in 10 weeks. Our wedding reception was to be held in a marquee in my in-laws’ garden. On Saturday night my future mother-in-law flipped out at my fianc.. [Read more]