Providing news and information while helping aspiring writers and journalists, http://thesop.org/index.php?bio=marbrook http://thesop.org/index.php?bio=marbrook 118 67 http://thesop.org/images/thesop_118x67.jpg Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:12:00 GMT Let us now praise famous men, James Agee said famously. Journalism certainly does that. Probably too much, especially in a public relations age when you can become famous for being famous. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/12/30/journalism-is-about-listening.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2007/12/30/journalism-is-about-listening.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:55:00 GMT There is nothing like reading something you have written aloud for finding and its infelicities. An article, maybe just a headline, may be perfectly http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/07/25/hot-copy-44-editing-means-listening-as-well-as-reading.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/07/25/hot-copy-44-editing-means-listening-as-well-as-reading.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:54:00 GMT Once you think you"ve got the story, think again. Always think again. First, because you may have the story your sources want you to have. Second, http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2007/01/13/the-real-story-and-the-cover-story-hot-copy-14.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2007/01/13/the-real-story-and-the-cover-story-hot-copy-14.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:52:00 GMT "Adeline Compton," a moving poem set to music, is prize-winning poet Djelloul Marbrook's homage to a memorable English girl who used to serve him air tea in painted tin cups in a gazebo in their boarding school many years ago while war raged across the world. http://thesop.org/story/20101123/a-moving-poem-set-to-music-captures-the-most-important-moment-in-a-young-girls-life.html http://thesop.org/story/20101123/a-moving-poem-set-to-music-captures-the-most-important-moment-in-a-young-girls-life.html dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 6 Aug 2010 22:55:00 GMT Any time you run into an expert who can"t tell you what he knows in plain, understandable language, he"s probably not as expert as he should be. http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2006/10/25/so-you-think-youre-a-journalist-is-your-story-the-next-hot-copy.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2006/10/25/so-you-think-youre-a-journalist-is-your-story-the-next-hot-copy.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:56:00 GMT You could say that as far as the White House is concerned the war in Iraq has already been won, because the moneybags who supported Dick Cheney and George W. Bush have been stuffing the spoils of war into their carpetbags since Day One. http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2007/02/28/journalism-not-a-turn-key-business-hot-copy-18.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2007/02/28/journalism-not-a-turn-key-business-hot-copy-18.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:38:00 GMT Problems of attribution, plagiarism and fraud are directly related to the state of the news business, indeed the state of publishing in general. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2006/12/17/attribution-plagiarism-and-lies-part-2-hot-copy-12b.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2006/12/17/attribution-plagiarism-and-lies-part-2-hot-copy-12b.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:38:00 GMT Theres a crucial difference between balanced reporting and insightful reporting. You can listen to this difference by tuning into the Yes Network and listening to color commentator David Cone http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/06/13/news-for-laughs-vs-news-for-vision.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/06/13/news-for-laughs-vs-news-for-vision.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:19:00 GMT But journalism also enjoys special First Amendment privileges, because the Founding Fathers believed the republic would founder without an honest and protected Fourth Estate. http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2008/01/25/circus-journalism-distracting-the-masses.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2008/01/25/circus-journalism-distracting-the-masses.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:24:00 GMT When you search the web using the key words forensic accounting and forensic economics you get the impression that it's all about litigation. http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2009/03/30/needed-forensic-business-journalists.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2009/03/30/needed-forensic-business-journalists.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:30:00 GMT Whenever you read the lead or off-lead story in a newspaper, whenever a TV anchor interrupts newscast to bring you breaking news, you can be pretty sure the real story is living its secret life unnoticed. http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2009/03/25/big-moneys-grab-for-the-internet.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2009/03/25/big-moneys-grab-for-the-internet.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:22:00 GMT I dont like trying to take in a whole museum in a single gulp. I invariably get intellectual reflux. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/09/23/and-now-the-do-it-yourself-newspaper.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/09/23/and-now-the-do-it-yourself-newspaper.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:25:00 GMT Nobody foresaw a postindustrial age in which industry would subside or go overseas and a service economy would emerge. http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2008/09/18/business-journalism-on-the-wrong-track.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2008/09/18/business-journalism-on-the-wrong-track.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:25:00 GMT McClellan says the press didnt do its job. He says that no matter how he sliced it the press readily swallowed his daily servings of baloney. http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/06/06/when-the-press-waffles-democracy-falters.php http://thesop.org/story/hot/2008/06/06/when-the-press-waffles-democracy-falters.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 16 May 2008 15:38:00 GMT One of the reasons I cherish The New York Times is its institutional eye for the easy-to-overlook and profound. http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2008/05/16/hot-copy-the-socialization-of-news-and-imagery.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2008/05/16/hot-copy-the-socialization-of-news-and-imagery.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor))