Columnist David Brooks writes about the difference between the “engaged writer” and the “detached writer” in today’s world. Judging just by the labels, one might be tempted to gravitate to the more energetic and personal sounding “engaged writer.”
The Dallas Morning News posted an exceptionally nice showing at the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors conference this year. We won best newspaper in the state overall, and a lot of hard working reporters and editors won recognition for their outstanding individual work.
What a shame that Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson’s office seems hell-bent on spreading – and perpetuating – misinformation to her constituents. With a “truth teller” friend like this, her constituents hardly need enemies.
When Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings called Dallas Morning News CEO Jim Moroney to ask that the newspaper partner with KERA to host a symposium to spur discussion of mental illness, the publisher didn’t hesitate to commit. I know. I happened to run into him at lunch in the Cedars a short time later, and Jim was bubbling over with enthusiasm about the idea.
Each Friday about this time, I wrap up one of the most difficult — and fun — parts of my job for the week: Selecting five days worth of op/eds for our print Viewpoints page. Just as we have too many good editorial ideas to write each week, as I noted here yesterday, I always have a few columns that I really wanted to publish, but simply ran out of space before “finding them a home.”
Late last week, a reader from Dallas emailed us to ask: Do the paper's editors have an opinion on the two votes against confirmation of John Kerry as Secretary of State? Silence seems eloquent on this exhibit of Texas exceptionalism.
Attentive readers of this blog know that we keep tallies each month of the number of conservative columnists we publish on our op-ed pages (Viewpoints and Points) and the number of liberal columnists we publish there.
So I’m looking over the Editorial department’s digital traffic figures for the month – compiled helpfully by a dedicated Assistant Editorial Page Editor Nicole Stockdale while on maternity leave! – and several interesting/unexpected numbers jump out, appropos of nothing….
I was in Arizona during the S&L scandals of the 1980s and 90s. Can you say Charlie Keating? Anybody remember Gov. Fife Symington?
Our formula for picking the newspaper’s annual recipient has plenty of things that can trip us up.
One of the great challenges of our “Bridging Dallas' North-South Gap” effort is to balance the daunting challenges that face southern Dallas with its exceptional quality-of-life/work factors.
Selecting the 2010 Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year was extremely difficult – on a number of levels.
One of the issues our Editorial Department regularly advocated for as we headed into the 2010 elections has been increased civility in our debates, particularly in our political debates. A couple of weeks ago I blogged on the topic, under the headline, "Is it possible to have a civil debate about civil debate?" and drew more than 70 comments.
In many ways, the Internet represents the best of times and the worst of times. With so much information at our fingertips, it's the age of wisdom – as Charles Dickens might write – but also the age of foolishness.
Last week, we on the Editorial Board had to make a tough call. We revoked a recommendation we'd made of a particular candidate in next week's election. And because we didn't feel confident of either of the other two candidates on the ballot, we decided to simply issue a "no recommendation" in the U.S. House District 30 race.
We often get letters from readers with copy-editing questions. Here are a few recent examples:
Here are some of the questions that have landed in my inbox in recent weeks. I bet other readers have wondered some of the same things about our daily opinion page, so read on for the answers:
Here are a couple of questions I’ve received lately dealing with two issues that have kept me busy: elections and letters.
