After a few months off, I’m back to blogging on “News notes.”
There was no mystery to my absence. I wasn’t searching for the Holy Grail or rediscovering myself. I wasn’t tired of blogging or looking for a new direction.
I just took the summer off. Now I’m back at school – teaching journalism at Monroe County Community College – and ready to get back into the habit of writing regularly about media issues, both local and national.
It’s not that there haven’t been plenty of hot media topics over the summer. It’s been hard to resist at times. There has been plenty to say about media coverage of national issues like health care reform, the death of Michael Jackson and the changing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And, of couse, there is the continuing saga of the transformation/death of newspapers, with Michigan at the forefront of the national story – thanks to grand experiments in Ann Arbor and Detroit.
And there’s always plenty to talk about right here in Monroe County.
I can’t wait to begin adding my voice again.
Dan – here’s an interesting headline of the day: Boston Globe stops the presses for Kennedy’s death.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004006401
Thanks, Paula. I noticed that, too. It brought back some memories.
Long ago, something like 30 years back, I was working the night desk when the Pope died, right after the presses had started with the morning paper.
It was my first chance to run into the pressroom, yelling, “Stop the presses.”