Michael O. Allen

Tag: Journalism

  • End of an Era, Indeed!

    The New York Times published the note below at the end of a strange story about the reburial of Richard III. I revered to Times journalists as a young journalist. Unlike many in my generation who came into journalism because of Woodward and Bernstein, Harrison Salisbury was my initial inspiration. Then, John F. Burns became…

  • Howell Raines is Neither a ‘Liar’ Nor is He Crazy

    In this Sunday’s Washington Post Op-Ed, he asks questions that have long needed to be asked. Take this one, his first: Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration — a campaign without precedent…

  • Check This Out!

    Write It Long, But Well By Michael O. Allen It’s about newspapers and news writing: By all means, get rid of slipshod, encrusted and encumbered conventional political writing (even as I needlessly encumber my sentence). Does doing this necessarily lead to shorter news stories? Shorn of the “conventions that don’t add to your understanding of…