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Newspapers and the role of listening in public debate
By Jim Slusher - 06/07/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: What is so bad about listening, especially about listening to "the other side?" FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 06/07/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: What is so bad about listening, especially about listening to "the other side?" FULL STORY
The delicate art of keeping letters lively, civilized
By Jim Slusher - 05/24/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: The mission the Daily Herald's letters to the editor column is to host a forum on topics of public concern entirely determined by the public and presented in the singular voice of each individual who writes. But that mission... FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 05/24/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: The mission the Daily Herald's letters to the editor column is to host a forum on topics of public concern entirely determined by the public and presented in the singular voice of each individual who writes. But that mission... FULL STORY
Sometimes, 'the funnies' aren't just about fun
By Jim Slusher - 05/17/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: The fact is, as I learned reading the classic panel Pogo, many funnies aim for something more than a... FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 05/17/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: The fact is, as I learned reading the classic panel Pogo, many funnies aim for something more than a... FULL STORY
It's not we who do the comforting and the afflicting
By Jim Slusher - 05/10/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: It may be true, as some suggest, that one function of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, but its probably more true that our job is to show you the comfortable... FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 05/10/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: It may be true, as some suggest, that one function of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, but its probably more true that our job is to show you the comfortable... FULL STORY
Whatever's behind it, transparency push is welcome
By Jim Slusher - 05/03/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: Do we take all this sudden new candidness as a sign that government officials have abandoned the smoke-filled rooms, or that theyre at least willing now to let us see what goes on in there? You... FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 05/03/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: Do we take all this sudden new candidness as a sign that government officials have abandoned the smoke-filled rooms, or that theyre at least willing now to let us see what goes on in there? You... FULL STORY
Requiem for one of life's true storytellers
By Jim Slusher - 04/26/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: Then there was Bill Granger. Copy boy. Television reviewer. Newsman. Columnist. Author of 28 -- count em, 28! -- novels. Here was a man who could tell a story. FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 04/26/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: Then there was Bill Granger. Copy boy. Television reviewer. Newsman. Columnist. Author of 28 -- count em, 28! -- novels. Here was a man who could tell a story. FULL STORY
A public storm, reassurance all on one front page
By Jim Slusher - 04/12/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: Is it possible that an emotional uproar can reinforce confidence in the stability of our democracy? I think so. FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 04/12/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: Is it possible that an emotional uproar can reinforce confidence in the stability of our democracy? I think so. FULL STORY
Is this evidence of political agenda?
By Jim Slusher - 04/05/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: What I really want to focus on is the way that people, of all political or social viewpoints actually, superimpose their own prejudices on what they see and read in the paper. FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 04/05/12
Scent of a buzzword: Keeping objectivity in the mainstream
By Jim Slusher - 03/28/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: We all know very well the injunction that a rose by any other name should smell as sweet. But in popular political practice today, it seems more common to find critics stretching for synonyms -- say, Rosa sulphurea? Or Rosa... FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 03/28/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: We all know very well the injunction that a rose by any other name should smell as sweet. But in popular political practice today, it seems more common to find critics stretching for synonyms -- say, Rosa sulphurea? Or Rosa... FULL STORY
Voting is 'Plan Only,' and we have duty to help
By Jim Slusher - 03/15/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: To concede that any citizen's participation is dispensable or not valuable is to ignore a fundamental tenet both of our mission as a newspaper and of our country FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 03/15/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: To concede that any citizen's participation is dispensable or not valuable is to ignore a fundamental tenet both of our mission as a newspaper and of our country FULL STORY
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