Bob CollinsThe story of the day today seems to be NPR’s firing of Juan Williams, who exercised the poor judgment to go on Bill O’Reilly’s show last night to admit to being concerned when he sees Muslims on an airplane, but cautioned O’Reilly not to brand Muslims as terrorists.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Should a hockey fan sue over being grabbed by a player, little change likely in Minnesota congressional races, dispatches from the Department of Life’s Not Fair, mail on Mt. Everest, and Juan Williams has been fired from NPR.
The last recording?
There’s a lot more to the ethics of journalism than rules designed to protect the image of a news organization. There’s also the very real — and much difficult — question of when a journalist should “get involved.”
So you planted a tree or two in a fit of ‘green?’ Now you went and did it. You might be messing up the potential of wind energy, some scientists say.
A phone call from the ’90s, cookie-cutter politics, an absence of hope, a marathon a day for dead soldiers, and the number-one sign you’re too connected.
Freddy Schuman was the only person who could make people outside of New York want to root for the Yankees.
Was Christine O’Donnell merely ignorant of the Constitution or simply disagreeing with it?
Two stories in the news today reveal the extent to which we’ve become a fearful society, just as the terrorists intended.
The BBC reports today that a violinist has broken the record for the fastest playing of Flight of the Bumblebee.