03/03/09
Newspapers as 'social glue'
Floyd McKay, a Bellingham resident and a retired journalism professor at Western Washington University, has a column today at Cross.cut, the online news site for, mainly, Western Washington.
In his piece, McKay cites studies showing that people’s views become more rigid when they are amongst like-minded people.
A similar tendency, it’s feared, occurs when people get more and more of their news from narrow-audience online sources, rather than more general media like newspapers and network television.
To read McKay’s article, click here.
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Dean Kahn's blog focuses on Whatcom County history, local neighborhoods, and other topics related to his weekly columns and his rambling interests.
Kahn joined The Bellingham Herald in 1986. Before becoming a columnist and Neighbors editor, he was a police and courts reporter, local government reporter and a news editor.
Born in Bremerton, he is a graduate of Western Washington University and of the University of Missouri-Columbia. He covered the legislatures in Missouri and Washington for United Press International before joining the Herald.
Kahn lives in Bellingham with his wife, Laurie. They have two children, one cat and two dogs (a sequence the dogs find hard to accept).
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