Serious Journalism Need Not Be Solemn.

Research Is A Scientific Activity Dedicated To Discovering What Makes Grass Green.

There Is A Growing Literature About The Multitude Of Journalism's Problems, But Most Of It Is Concerned With The Editorial Side Of The Business, Possibly Because Most People Competent To Write About Journalism Are Not Comfortable Writing About Finance.

The Goal Of All Inanimate Objects Is To Resist Man And Ultimately Defeat Him.

It Is Fitting That Yesteryear's Swashbuckling Newspaper Reporter Has Turned Into Today's Solemn Young Sobersides Nursing A Glass Of Watered White Wine After A Day Of Toiling Over Computer Databases In A Smoke-free, Noise-free Newsroom.

Few Expected Very Much Of Franklin Roosevelt On Inauguration Day In 1933. Like Barack Obama Seventy-six Years Later, He Was Succeeding A Failed Republican President, And Americans Had Voted For Change. What That Change Might Be Roosevelt Never Clearly Said, Probably Because He Himself Didn't Know.