Journalism, Media, and other important topics
Like so many Americans, my phone is seldom more than a few feet away from my outstretch hands. It haas become an extension of my body. Among my first actions upon waking up is to check Twitter, see my absurd amalgamation of various topics. If you’ve ever wanted to see an absurd yet hilarious inappropriate …
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We are living within a brand new world, a world with new frontiers. A brand new digital work. It is hard for people to get accustomed to this new world. We grew accustomed to life before technology, and as such we did not know all the pits and landmines that would accompany this shift. …
People are losing trust. Each year, Gallup tracks the American Publics trust in various institution. Trust in everything from Churches to public schools haas fallen to the wayside in recent years. This has been even worse for media, government and corporations, three business models that rely on good publicity and public relations. This has made …
Our Modern Media landscape is in a crisis. That is at least what John Oliver, and Nicco Mele preached in their respective media forms. Although I am a huge fan of John Oliver, and found the Mele podcast very interesting, I do not believe the landscape to be as dire as they projected. Yes, newspapers …
We messed up. This should never have happened and we will take strides to make sure it never happens again. During The Facebook Dilemma, Mark Zuckerberg never said that and he probably never will. It was the one comment that none of the executives of Facebook will ever made. This is what stuck with me …
A little over a year ago, I packed my bags, said goodbye to family, friends and neighbors, then set flight to Australia. If I had gone to Australia a couple decades ago, it would have been very hard for me to keep in contact. I would have paid ridiculous amounts of money in order to …
Today, I took a walk. That is nothing new for me. I like to take walks. I’ve walked all around my home town in North Carolina, and I’ve walked all over Omaha. But something was different today. Normally, I’ll check my phone, load my headphones, and listen to music and ignore the world. Today …
Over this past weekend, I engaged in a retreat in the Black Hills of South Dakota. For the majority of the weekend, I had no access to my phone or other technology (the one exception being checking my phone to find out the score of the Nebraska game). By disconnecting from my phone and …
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,” — George Orwell, “1984”. Hello… Is anyone there? I don’t want to just be talking to myself this whole time. Oh, hello there. Welcome to my objectively blog-like blog. Please keep reading; I promise to not always be weirdly meta in the blog. I’m not sure …
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