A writer is a professional spinner of lies. His job: to lay out the truth on a bed of magnificent lies so it is visible… »
Reports on Research
Why do research?
Thirty-two research staff crowded around a conference table late one afternoon to apply their combined intellectual might to a foundational question: why do we undertake research? Do we do it for others? Or do we do it for… »
Ask not…
One question you must NOT ask someone writing up a thesis, “So when do you think you will finish?” That is only slightly better than… »
Dog bites news
Man bites dog. It is news. How about dog bites cat? Is big news, I just learnt by way of Daily Echo, the leading – and only – newspaper in my little town in south… »
Sex, Church & Siebert
Besides Messrs Frederick Siebert, Theodore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm, there’s another group responsible for the popularity of the Social Responsibility Theory, did you… »
Re-search? Pardon my French
I have been a full-time researcher for nearly three years now, but for the life of me, I still can’t figure out why we call research research. I mean, why research Why not… »