At heart, objective journalism sets out to establish the facts about a situation, report fairly the range of opinion around it and take a first cut at what arguments are the most reasonable.
Booking travel and restaurant reservations, rearranging meeting schedules or even taking a first cut at reading e-mail are among the mundane tasks that have remained beyond the reach of our PCs for decades.
In this article, I take a first cut at a taxonomy of "value propositions for the purchase of digital goods" – that is, reasons you should spend money on digital files that you can get for free – and of the market strategies that enhance or undermine each strategy.
Yet size alone is no guarantee of success, which is why we have taken a second cut at the Forbes 2000 to find big companies that are absolutely great at what they do.
And it was Washington who took a second-quarter kickoff, cut back through the middle of the field, bounced to the left sideline and streaked up field, untouched, into the end zone.
Take a second to cut them up before you biff them and you might just save a life.
"A commission can act quickly and take a solid first cut, but it's not likely to get into as much detail as Congressional committees with big staffs".
