Floyd J. McKay, professor of journalism emeritus at Western Washington University, was a print and broadcast journalist in Oregon for three decades. He is also a historian and his new book, "Reporting
Controversy this week over the current New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/] cover, showing Barack and Michelle Obama in all the worst ways the paranoid right could imagine, proves two basic lessons from the history of journalism. The first is that a medium that is in the process of being overrun
The man who created Huxley College of the Environment [http://www.wwu.edu/depts/huxley/] at Western Washington University, the nation's first such college, hasn't followed the controversies surrounding a similar college at the University of Washington, but he has some succinct advice: "Devote yourse
