Category Archives: Joel’s J School

The best journalists? Historians!

Posted on January 8, 2011 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell If you are one of the 1,100 people who received PhD diplomas in history last year, let me express my condolences. You are looking at a pretty bleak future. According to the American Historical Association, there will … Continue reading →

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Right-wing nutcase

Posted on January 6, 2011 by hro50ta1

To: JOTR staff From: Jimmy Sellbydate, JOTR Marketing Director We recently passed the three-year anniversary of JOTR, and time has come to take note of opportunities now being missed by a blog that tends all too often to lean all too … Continue reading →

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Blowin’ smoke in the ‘burbs

Posted on December 30, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Luke Warm Professor of Mendacity University of Munchausen In my lecture today, I’m going to outline how an adroit dissembler can plant a new way of thinking in the public mind with the expert use of deceit injected into … Continue reading →

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Five-percenters

Posted on December 22, 2010 by hro50ta1

WARNING: The following commentary has been REPURPOSED. It contains no original SOURCING. It was sparked by a magazine report of an absurd program aimed at re-training (i.e., CONTROLLING) writers like me. This column is NOT news, but an essay REPURPOSED on the … Continue reading →

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Journalism: theory and practice

Posted on December 18, 2010 by adamthurtell

. Wannabe reporter meets jaded journalist.

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WikiLeaks matters

Posted on December 16, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell I’m not completely comfortable with the mass dispersion of documents undertaken by WikiLeaks and the site’s creator, Julian Assange. How would I react if someone hacked into my blog or e-mail, ripped off my private ruminations and … Continue reading →

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Containing those ‘containables’

Posted on December 14, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Luke Warm Professor of Mendacity University of Munchausen My lecture today was inspired by a brilliant memo circulated within the Detroit Free Press, a publication with a well-honed sense of what a newspaper’s duty is, and is not. Now, … Continue reading →

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Age of the robo-writers

Posted on November 17, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Back in the day when I was paid for writing, we used to joke about our jobs being threatened by offshore journalists. I had this perverse fantasy: What if the newspaper canned me and assigned my coverage … Continue reading →

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Olbermann, MSNBC and Red Squads

Posted on November 11, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Keith Olbermann got it right when he said in his “apology” that MSNBC’s ban on political donations by network employees like Olbermann was “probably not legal.” But why did Keith Olbermann feel the  need to apologize for … Continue reading →

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MSNBC’s invisible hand

Posted on November 9, 2010 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Did you wonder, maybe, why I’ve been beating on New York Times writers for letting the invisible hand of Times company policy guide their printed musings about Keith Olbermann’s suspension by MSNBC? So what? For the Times … Continue reading →

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