Back After Hiatus

TomInReston | March 15, 2008

It’s one of the cardinal rules of blogging… post often.
Circumstances made that impossible.
Sorry.
Will do better.

Bloggers are not journalists.

TomInReston | August 20, 2007

In an op-ed in the LA Times, Michael Skube, a journalism professor at Elon University took a rather inept swipe at bloggers and the blogosphere. Josh Marshall at TPM and Kagro X at DailyKos took Skube to task for his lack of practicing what we was preaching, so I can skip that part.
Instead, I’d like [...]

A letter.

TomInReston | August 19, 2007

Senator James Webb
United States Senate
Washington, DC
About two weeks ago, I asked what you were thinking when you voted for the FISA fixup requested by the White House at the last minute before your current recess. In your statement explaining your vote, you said:
This distinction and the threats to national security were stated clearly by Admiral [...]

It has ever been thus. Just a little better covered now.

TomInReston | August 19, 2007

After the tragic deaths and injuries among the rescue workers at the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah compounded the tragedy of the six miners buried in the original mine collapse, I spent some time this weekend thinking about what I know about the coal mining industry and miners.
As the Sago mine disaster did not so [...]

What corporate America thinks.

TomInReston | August 13, 2007

This what CNBC corporate shill Erin Burnett thinks is good for us. Do you still think there isn’t a class war?

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TomInReston

I'm a former working journalist and now communications director for a small Washington DC trade association. I'm also a political activist and technology enthusiast, two things I once thought were different.