Just Jake

Jake Highton is a journalism professor at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno. He teaches media law, history of journalism and advanced reporting. Highton is the author of numerous books, including "Nevada Newspaper Days." He writes a weekly column for the Daily Sparks Tribune.

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Declaration of media independence

A journalism professor has issued a manifesto to turn the media upside down. He declares that the media and journalism schools must “jettiso...

Friday, October 30, 2009

Danish cartoons spawn gutlessness

The Yale University Press has carried political correctness to amazing depths: it has published a book about the 12 controversial Danish car...

Friday, October 23, 2009

Obama all hat, no cattle

An absurd world got more absurd recently when President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Republicans, right for the first time since...

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Wall Street and money rule

We are capable of shutting off the sun and the stars because they do not pay a dividend. ...

Sunday, October 04, 2009

Tracy Moore: reggae DJ

Tracy Moore is an ebullient, passionate, personable, aimable, smiling, upbeat, joyous and happy apostle of reggae in the Truckee Meadows. Ye...

Monday, September 28, 2009

Thunder from the Left

G.W. Bush did get a third term after all. The sellouts of President Obama have been monumental. His presidency was supposed to be transforma...

Monday, September 21, 2009

Chappaquiddick stains Kennedy legacy

President Obama called Sen. Ted Kennedy “the soul of the Democratic Party.” But the Democratic Party hasn’t had a soul since the halcyon day...

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