Gary Goldhammer –author and storyteller.
Content strategist, PR practitioner and marketer | digital and social media innovator | writer and author
Category: News Media
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The big news yesterday (or so I thought) was the surprise victory of the militant Hamas Party in the Palestinian elections. This has wide-ranging implications for the region and the world – and since last I checked the United States was still part of the world, I figured this might be something the American media…
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The new McDonald’s corporate blog, Open for Discussion, has prompted a fair share of discussion over at Naked Conversations, a blog about a book about blogs (I’ll let you figure that one out.) Author Shel Israel says McDonald’s is offering slow service in a fast-food environment, since the blog had only one post after a…
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A woman sits in jail, accused of no crime. She does not have an attorney or a trial date. She is not allowed visitors, except for the soulless guards who watch her and the nameless interrogators who taunt her. This woman is not unique or alone. There are hundreds, possibly thousands more women and men…
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A woman sits in jail, accused of no crime. She does not have an attorney or a trial date. She is not allowed visitors, except for the soulless guards who watch her and the nameless interrogators who taunt her. This woman is not unique or alone. There are hundreds, possibly thousands more women and men…
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I like to think that my colleagues and peers are smarter than me, work harder than me, and with the exception of Craig Newmark and any L.A. Weekly reporter, are infinitely better looking than me (I tried to post my photo but TypePad kept replacing it with a picture of an engorged Ferret, which bore…
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I like to think that my colleagues and peers are smarter than me, work harder than me, and with the exception of Craig Newmark and any L.A. Weekly reporter, are infinitely better looking than me (I tried to post my photo but TypePad kept replacing it with a picture of an engorged Ferret, which bore…
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I live my life with few absolutes – making time to read with my daughter, watching every second of American Idol, and picking up The New Yorker when in airports to make myself look smart on business trips, even though I’d much rather read People. In the world of blogs, I have two “absolutes.” Tim…
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Nosir Zokirov, a reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Uzbek Service in Uzbekistan, is serving a six-month prison term for allegedly insulting a security officer. According to Radio Free Europe, Zokirov was tried without defense counsel or examination of witnesses. Ching Cheong, chief correspondent for China at Singapore daily newspaper The Straits Times, was arrested…