You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.