The author

I personally believe I was born two decades too late.

Although I’m still fairly young, I have had my share of experiences while stumbling through the now-tarnished field sometimes referred to as ‘journalism.’ Spent too much time on the university’s newspaper staff. Traveled to Littleton, Colo. with nothing but a tape recorder and a high school senior’s starry-eyed enthusiasm to write a feature for the local newspaper on the Columbine High School shootings. Took a crack at Bill O’Reilly (with debateable success) as a guest on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ as a college senior when ‘Outdoor Sex Week’ on campus raised some ire nationally. Covered my fair share of county fairs, school lockdowns and violent car accidents for local newspapers and radio stations. Almost broke the Internet when I updated the homepage of a popular Internet portal with breaking news of Britney’s divorce and Anna Nicole’s death.

My name is Paul Nicholas and I do NOT watch the news to be informed (that’s what reading is for). I’m intrigue by WHAT the media decides is news, HOW it reports the aforementioned (and alleged) ‘news’ and WHERE usually more relevant stories are buried.

But most of all, I’m drawn to the ‘WHY’ that explains some of the so-called editorial decision making that’s going on in newsrooms across the U.S.