Newspapers don’t own journalism

9/11, bloggers, digital journalism, First Amendment, journalism, news business, online news business, Uncategorized23 Comments

I always thought it was odd to hear flat out declarations that there can be no life on other planets in the absence of water. How egocentric! So you’re saying that life can only exist if it’s precisely like us? Really? That’s the feeling I’m getting right now in the woe-is-us, hand-wringing sob-fest about whether…

9/11 again

9/11, true stories2 Comments

Thanks to my dear friend, colleague and adopted sister, Holly Hegeman, who saved and republished on her blog today the words I wrote when I was an editor at TheStreet.com to describe that awful September morning: At 8:26 a.m. I sent an Instant Message to our market columnist, Bill Meehan, asking if he’d be sending…