At the SPJ conference today (well, technically yesterday now), Al Siegal, of the Siegal Commission that investigated Jayson Blair, made an interesting comment at the ethics panel presentation. I’m going to be completely unethical now and reconstruct his quote, but he was talking about reporters who objected to having corrections run on their stories. “I […]

The occasion of doing a first of anything makes one prone to ponder infinity. But pondering infinity makes me physically naseous, so I won’t. I’m more inclined to say a little something about my own writing and how I think this might help it, and to do a little bit of explanation of what I […]