Is anonymity one big excuse?

By Angelo Fernando on September 21st, 2009 In Media, Writing

‘UnclePat’ got it right. He was responding to a question E.J. Montini  raised in his blog recently.
Explain to me some of the reasons you believe that is is necessary for those who post responses to blogs or add their opinion to comment threads should to be anonymous. Or, rather, why you choose to do so, [...]

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Did Bobby Jindal need a speechwriter?

By Angelo Fernando on February 26th, 2009 In Best Practices, Writing

I thought I was being a bit harsh when watching the Republican rebuttal the other day. I thought his speech was a badly packaged naive response. My main point was (you could see the full post here) from the basic: teleprompter training, to choice of anecdote, to simply weak speech.
I now see that others [...]

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So much for being a ‘blogmonkey’

By Len Gutman on January 1st, 2009 In Writing

Lake Superior State University (that grand bastion of higher learning) has come out with its 34th annual “List of Words to be Banished From the Queen’s English for Misuse, Over-use and General Uselessness.” There are some funny ones that I too hope we never see again — most especially “first dude” as used to describe [...]

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Waste Management Woman

By Charlotte Shaff on July 29th, 2008 In Writing

I was going through my Facebook friends and saw that a local writer, Christia Gibbons has a new blog!
I fear that while the Internet has opened up the world, the massive amount of unscrutinized information in poorly written form is dumbing us down. I’m a lifelong journalist from reporter to city editor, from freelancer [...]

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To AP or not to AP

By Charlotte Shaff on July 28th, 2008 In Writing

When I started out in PR, I had no clue what AP Style was or meant. I went to school for Broadcasting and Cinematic Arts and the majority of my classes were in production, ad copywriting and critique at Central Michigan University. I never took a Journalism class because I was planning on being a TV [...]

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Women’s writing group looks for members

By Angelo Fernando on July 25th, 2008 In Professional Development, Writing

Want to join a women’s group in Tempe?

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