The news about Jason Collins revealing his homosexuality, thus becoming the first veteran player in a major American male team sport to go public, was a social and media event. The front page story in “Sports Illustrated” elicited praise for Collins and his courage from every corner of America, from [...]
The downfall of former Congressman Anthony Weiner is well document, so there’s no need to roll over it again here. But just because his emailed and texted pictures cost him his job, Weiner is seeking a comeback considering a run for Mayor of New York City. One problem. Weiner admits [...]
There is no denying the force social media has become in covering the news. More than ever, journalists and news organizations are relying on Facebook, You Tube, Twitter, Reddit and a host of others to get information and first hand accounts that often took days and even weeks to gather [...]
So perhaps this is something of an exaggeration in your case, but it’s a mantra worth carrying with you every say, every second. Recording devices used to be bulky and easily discovered items, more often used in law enforcement than anything else. But now, recording devices of every kind are [...]
The “Like” button on Facebook, at first, seems harmless enough. You can click on it, share your fondness for a person or product, and don’t have to comment. Many believe it’s not a big deal and won’t affect their image much, if at all. Oh, how wrong they are. The [...]
Mark Saxenmeyer was a reporter at KTSP-TV in Minneapolis. I say “was” because he was fired fro his position after using the word “homo” as a joke in a story about a local gay couple being invited to the White House Easter Egg Roll with their sons. Saxenmeyer is gay, [...]
Here’s one I really had to sit down and read thru several times before commenting. As always, let’s try to keep the politics out of this. For the discussion of image, it makes no difference what political stripe Rep. Joseph Mitchell is. This is about how he torched whatever image [...]
Plenty of employers and employees will rail against this one claiming it’s just not true or doesn’t apply to them because they know all about the social media traps. In my experience, those who protest the loudest are those at the bottom of the social media totem pole. It’s easy [...]
The soap opera that is the NBC “Today” show is one that no matter how the network has or will handle it, there is no way for anyone to come out winner. Such is the nature of high-level broadcast programs, their talent and the incessant gossip machine. In a rather [...]
The mass murder in Newtown CT. remains and will for some time be a large part of the National conversation about gun control, gun sales, and Constitutional rights. Actor Jim Carrey has decided to take his opinions to the front lines about gun owners, and leaves little doubt how he [...]
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