Inner conflicts of a microbusiness journalist
The big challenge for people who are in the business of covering both public policy and the economy is to keep people informed while simultaneously refraining from scaring them to death.
It would be very easy to write endless Articles of Doom right now. All the numbers we normally use to paint a picture of the [...]
The trustworthy media is where???
Seth Godin is getting a headache from the current political season with its endless lies spin, and he observes that there is “a huge opportunity for a trusted media source that takes on spin from all quarters and throws it back in the face of the spinner. Show them video of themselves from last week [...]
Where does America get its news and what’s wrong with this picture?
The NYT asked last week whether Jon Stewart was the most trusted man in America. A sad decent from the days when Walter Cronkite held that distinction but it’s probably just a sign of the times:
Most important, at a time when Fox, MSNBC and CNN routinely mix news and entertainment, larding their 24-hour schedules with [...]



Dawn Rivers Baker, aka The Journal Blogger, is the editor and publisher of The MicroEnterprise Journal, and the self-proclaimed Socrates of the small business blogosphere. See her 

