tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37659192012-02-16T07:31:31.519-05:00Former newspaper editor, now psychology graduate student. What to expect? Thoughts on the news and events covered elsewhere with a heaping helping of my own feelings, thanks to this newfound career path.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107058458747030063noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3765919.post-31187379172343969442010-11-08T00:33:00.000-05:002010-11-08T00:33:56.095-05:00

A and E, IOU Yes, therapy is all about touchy feely. It's obvious, I know, but I've noticed it in more ways than one recently with all of the endless reading I'm in the middle of. I used to go crazy as an editor correcting reporters on "effect" and "affect" - effect being a noun and extremely common in news writing and affect being almost solely verb in news and extremely rare. But these days, "

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From the Outside, This Time So I must say, I'm glad to be sitting out this election cycle, from the media standpoint. The 24-hour news cycle has helped to ruin politics, of that I'm sure, but so have the players. It was plenty bad before the Supreme Court ruled that corporations could have free reign in the election cycle. Last I heard more than $200 million had been pumped into the election

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Starting over It's the last quarter of 2010 and after a hiatus of more than a year, this blog is happening again. When I started blogging in 2002, "blogging" wasn't a verb, there wasn't even MySpace and I was expecting a long career in the media. There were plenty of mishaps along the way - personal and professional, some which were directly responsible for the many endings and restarts of this

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