Unca Darrell

DECEMBER 20 / Time thumbs nose at Third Commandment

"Roberts was finally called to meet . . .

DECEMBER 4 / UPDATED: Big Journalism embraces Big Brother

"THE RECONSTRUCTION of American Journalism" in the most recent Columbia Journalism Review offers a good diagnosis of what's going wrong, financially, with the journalism industry. But the prescriptions offered by authors Leonard Downie, Jr., and Michael Schudsom are less likely to preserve an independent press than to corrupt it.

DECEMBER 3 / Thanksgiving at the Chronicle, continued

YESTERDAY I gave the Chronicle a sincere toast of approval for having run a positive editorial about Thanksgiving -- a 21st-century first, so far as I can recall.

Would it be wrong of me now to engage in light mockery?

NOVEMBER 25 / How can you explain a four-column banner headline for a column about Mayor Bill?

IT CAN'T BE EXPLAINED, except as further evidence -- if further evidence were needed -- that . . .

NOVEMBER 23 / The emperor does too have new clothes

The Catlin Arctic Survey estimates that based on the dwindling expanse and thickness of ice coverage, the Arctic Ocean will become ice free in summer within two decades.

NOVEMBER 23 / The arrogance of a journalist

"SHE THOUGHT it was okay to write a story without giving equal voice to the person who was lying."

NOVEMBER 9 / Rememberin' Miss Molly

THE CURRENT ISSUE of Texas Monthly -- the one with the Aggie bonfire on the cover -- tells the story of Molly Ivins's tenure as an intern at the Chronicle in the late 1960s.

NOVEMBER 5 / Unca reads CJR so you don't have to

THE SEPTEMBER/October issue of Columbia Journalism Review ("Strong Press, Strong Democracy") includes a twelve-page supplement, "How Will Comprehensive Reform Improve Health Care for Americans?"

NOVEMBER 3 / More California-bashing for the Chronicle to ignore

WHY ARE Americans fleeing California and other high-tax states for Texas and other low-tax states?

Conservative researchers' technical explanation for this phenomenon is: . . .

OCTOBER 26 / Chronicle circulation tanks again

THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE has lost another 64,000 in daily circulation.