Giving thanks for, yes, journalism

W splendid holiday, but also a use of our lives to others and fool ourselves

our families since they are ( if we are should also be aware of our debt to -

Since you are reading this in a newspaper or online at a media site, you might

confront has encouraged a great many who are neither scribes nor broadcasters to consider why journalism matters to -

circulation of newspapers in a given country, the higher the level of cor an essential restraint on abuses by the powers- that- be, and all the more so

Since journalists are human beings, we the interest of offering a model of what journalism is supposed to be (and, in the - me to introduce you to Shelly Binn, one

Shelly, who died 11 years ago at the age metropol a sense of his devotion to service—and

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Shelly believed passionately that an - his colleagues pondered an article for the next day’s paper about a proposed new master plan for development of Manhat

It was not the most exciting account, decide on it?”

hell are we, Pravda?”

came when I shared information with him about alleged corruption by a poli

Shelly said something more editors should be willing to say in this age of

He was not trying to quell my competi he didn’t want us to be wrong, especially

Shelly had a delightful way of signaling that a seemingly harebrained idea had to deal with the idea somehow, but -

It might surprise regular readers that one of my very favorite editors was rather conservative in his politics as he became disillusioned with what he saw

But his personal politics never shaped his view of what constituted a valuable Shelly fan, noted that he “was so utterly straight that his judgment was never clouded by ideology” or, more miracu