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What’s Wrong With Our Candidates?

by John March 22, 2012

The answer: no one is calling people to serve their country — by creating jobs for themselves.  Think about it.  Each candidate says they have a jobs plan. Instead, they offer incentives — mainly to corporations and some small business owners — to hire people.  The Informed truth is this.  The jobs of the 1990s […]

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Health Care Perspective

by John March 21, 2012

This is a great piece in Atlantic Monthly on what conservatives and liberals can learn from Singapore and Switzerland about health care reform.  It is Informed Not Inflamed — and worth your time.

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Follow Election Sacredness

by John March 18, 2012

This is another good article by Jonathan Haidt, mentioned in a previous post.

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Determining A True Tweet

by John March 16, 2012

This is a great piece on how to determine if you should re-tweet something.

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Turning Down the Flames of Being Inflamed

by John March 16, 2012

One personal rule I have: never lose a friend over politics. As a result, I am blessed with friends on all side of the political spectrum. I don’t know if I inherited this from my father or I learned it as a journalist. As a result, I don’t recall any candidates thinking I did a hatchet-job […]

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Congratulations On Your New Career

by John March 16, 2012

You’re a journalist now. What? You don’t want to be a newsperson? Well, I never wanted to be a travel agent, but guess who books my airline flights now? You’re a journalist — whether you like it or not. You have all the mechanical tools you need: a smart-phone with camera; a computer with editing […]

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Why “Informed Not Inflamed”

by John March 14, 2012

The title actually comes from John Ray, a good friend, who kindly read the manuscript of my first book seven years ago.  He suggested that Informed Not Inflamed should be the book’s title.  However, the publisher chose “Truth: The No BS Guide To Navigating A Media-Biased World”.  Hey, I was just happy to have a […]

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Welcome to Informed Not Inflamed

by John March 13, 2012

Thanks for joining me at Informed Not Inflamed.  We’ll discuss the ever-changing issues in the news media – both the old and new media. Some of you know me as a news anchor; others remember me as the host of Real TV.  Some of you read my book, “Truth: The No BS Guide To Navigating […]

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