Category: journalism
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An information campaign that’s transmitted into Russia is needed.
Yes, this is an environmental web page, but today I’m writing about the war in Ukraine and about the need to conduct an information campaign directed toward Russians—because a prolonged Ukraine War could cause us to lose the Climate War. Information Campaign Needed to Change Russian Minds A public relations campaign directed at the everyday…
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Collapse of the Local Free Press: Stopgap Legislation Urgently Needed
Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen writes that our democracy has become fragile, and that “the major fault lines are evidenced by significant inequity in education, health care, public safety, wealth, and age.” He alerts us to an even more serious threat—a threat to the means by which we know about, respond to, and deal with…
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“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
— Said by the gun-runner character Jackie Brown in the book by George Higgins, The Friends of Eddy Coyle (1970). For us to stay smart, our communities need a vigorous, healthy, local free press. See my synopsis of the 2021 year-end message from the publisher of The Seattle Times, about saving the country’s local free…
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Candidates endorsed by The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times endorsements were published in the 17 July 2022 (Sunday) issue on p. D3 and can be accessed at https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/seattle-times-editorial-board-endorsements-aug-2-2022-primary/ (e-published 8 July 2022 and updated 21 July 2022). My Comments:I’m glad I live where a free and healthy press still exists and where newspapers publish their recommendations on which candidates to vote…
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