Resources For Communicators

A little innocent, unconscious hypocrisy in the long-ago past?

A radio ad this morning clarified a web-site address: “Beers, yes, like my favorite drink,” or something like that is what I recall having heard.

Suddenly, I was back in the early 1960s. The national offices of the American Baptist Churches in the USA, where I worked, was in a dither over an article in a [...]

Impalas I have known

The other day I followed a Chevy Impala a couple of years old, regretting the loss of the graceful badge that model had sported for years — General Motors had decided to plaster the historic Chevrolet “bow tie” insignia on everything with the Chevy name, cutting out anything confusing about the auto’s parentage.

Every time I [...]

Malia keeps the President on his toes

Media made a fuss, that still hasn’t ended, over her question to Daddy Barack Obama: “Have you plugged that hole yet?”

That’s Malia.

Richard Wolffe, in his book, “Renegade,” tells how, between election and inauguration of her Dad, in a visit to the Lincoln Memorial, at dusk, to read the Gettysbury Address, Malia showed her stuff.

Lincoln’s focus [...]

Legal services under the radar need to be better known

The New York Times lauds law school clinics for providing challenge to “powerful interests” while public may be unaware of their value; likewise, public may not be aware of the powerful effect of ultra-conservative law schools providing pro-bono services to local authorities all over the U.S.

The New York Times on April 12 warned the U.S. [...]

With an ubiquitous news peg, maybe my reflections on “another” Copenhagen can be indulged

Copenhagen this, Copenhagen that: news stories don’t even need to add “Denmark” to their datelines. “Everyone” knows where Copenhagen is.

It’s where my sibs and I graduated from high school. It’s where our mail was sorted, dispatched and delivered. It’s how we identified ourselves, even though our farm was closer to Tylerville (our church, our grange, [...]