DailyNewsGems is my personal blog in which I comment, every now and again, on topics of particular interest to me, namely, newspaper history, baseball, American politics, and a selection of other burning issues of the day.
But Martin's tweet also reveals a broader issue in reporting, which I've commented on before, I think (no time to search): the unhealthy cult of the inside scoop.
It's a tale expertly told in the book An Epidemic of Absence, about which I have commented before -- and which I recommend highly.
So I invite your feedback to anything I post – whether you agree, disagree, or wish to elaborate or enrich a thought or experience on which I've commented.
"Regardless of the particulars of this case, about which I cannot comment except to say that when we were seeking the truth about the Disappeared in the period 2006 to 2007, Gerry Adams was co-operating with me and with the Police Service of Northern Ireland to try and establish the truth about these cases," he told Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show.
Perhaps I could group the questions around six groups of amendments on which I can comment one by one.
For some time now, health policy makers around the world and the analysts who advise them have been exploring reforms of the methods by which the providers of health care are paid or, as the latter prefer to call it, are "reimbursed" – an unfortunate, mind-altering expression on which I have already commented in an earlier post.
This decision was not to be unexpected in light of the similar decision that came out of Massachusetts, which struck down those portions of The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), about which I have already commented.
The Church's founder and his wife, with the inscription (which I will not comment on): "All I have to give to the poor, I shall give to this Society.
Leaving aside matters of funding, about which I can't comment, as far as the arts are concerned, I don't think separation from England would make much difference to the Scots.
