Month: February 2010

I have imposed a moratorium on the word “Fuck” from my language. The first few days the F-ers still crept out as prefaces to random sentences. I relied on them for an emphasis, like an accent mark. It was like I had my keyboard on PERMANENT CAPS LOCK. After a while F-ing this and F-ing that wasn’t doing anything for the sentence, the issue I thought it was emphasizing and certainly not my image. It was a default setting and it’s become acceptable in every circle of my life so there were not boundaries – work, home, even the yoga studio!

People need reliable information. They need to be empowered to be active participants in our society. Effective dissemination of accurate, in-depth and timely information is vital. Let’s all be a part of Rethinking the News- its forms, its delivery and its importance.

Now more than ever, standards of excellence for news gathering must be upheld. That means not just “good enough.” You can’t send your reporting out on the social media-digital express train if it’s crap – full of holes, misquotes, inaccurate, imbalanced … crap.