Joe L-E LIVE on the radio at 3:30pm!
Dear loyal readers-
Just giving everyone a heads-up that I will be on the air, LIVE on The Joyce Kaufman Show on News Talk 850 WFTL in Ft. Lauderdale, FL at 3:30 pm today. You can listen live HERE (link on the left). I think we’ll be discussing my Gibbs article. Let me know how you think I did!
Joe
Oldies but goodies
This is really just some housecleaning on my part, because I’ve been meaning to post these links for some time. (Back before I realized blogging alone was a terrible idea). I’m transferring links from my old blogs to have some more material for people to review if they choose– and to still use this thing for a little bit of personal promotion. (So if someone wants to hire me as a columnist, consider these my official writing samples!) Feel free to comment, despite the fact that some of this stuff is ancient.
Individualist generation defies stereotyping - The (Bergen) Record; July 23, 2008
Czechs look West for allies - National Security Online Resource Center (NSCORC); written July 2009 (published March 19, 2009)
Why student press needs independent funding - The (Bergen) Record; March 27, 2009
Watchmen Review: Rorschach to the rescue - NSORC; March 30, 2009
Star Ledger: In defense of the ‘Housewives’
My article: In defense of the ‘Housewives’ is featured on The Star Ledger’s online site NJVoices this afternoon. I take on the critics for what they said about the stereotypes of my home state on the Bravo show “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.”
For those of you coming over from NJ.com… WELCOME! This site is just starting to get underway, so I encourage you to bookmark this now (crtl + d) and keep coming back for more news on current events (NJ and national), politics, finance, and culture from regular, young people who know how to appeal to everyone using new media… and happen to be right a lot of the time. (See Bando Bucks’ first two columns here and here).
In praise of whistleblowers, on left and right
This article first appeared in The Record (Hackensack, NJ) on June 17, 2005.
THE CHEERS OF ELATION were deafening when the legendary Deep Throat finally came out and revealed himself to America after living in the shadows for decades.
The media rejoiced at hearing that the great tale had finally come to an end and that they could commemorate their most powerful, highest-impact story. Mark Felt, the No. 2 man at the FBI, gave the media a reason to celebrate investigative journalism and its role in the resignation of a president.
But whistleblowers have been very prominent in a wide range of issues in the last few years. Following the 2002 corporate scandals that tarnished the Bush administration by association, Time magazine named the three whistleblowers - Sherron Watkins of Enron, Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom and Colleen Rowley of the FBI - as Persons of the Year for their courage. Currently, the media are celebrating the anonymous source that alleged that the Bush administration and Tony Blair’s government exaggerated the threat of Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.
However, I am having trouble remembering how most of the media lauded whistleblowers of the 1990s, those who undid the Clinton administration. Forgive me if my copy got lost in the mail, but I never received a Time Person of the Year issue featuring Linda Tripp, who blew the lid off the obstruction of justice by President Clinton and his staff in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. Continue Reading »
