Used to be his blogwatch, now you’re not the only one…

Telford Work: “Every literary genre comes with conventions and expectations: documentary, reporting, commentary, preaching, etc. Journalistic conviction and practice are increasingly incompatible with the conventions and expectations of its traditional genres.

“The problem is that editors and reporters are letting go of their old (false) notions of objectivity and balance without properly embracing the virtues of trust, fairness, honesty, and humility that are proper to [the] genre of news reporting, and which keep subjectivity and conviction from metastasizing into dominance and arrogance.”

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Young and married? Why not take this survey about marital advice and premarital counseling? (Via After Abortion.)

“The Day Before”: Good Washington Post piece on the last day of the 1990s: Sept. 10, 2001. Starts out cliched, last para. returns to well-trodden ground, but in between there’s a lot of fascinating stuff.