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One of the ways we can contribute to the discussion of public policy comes with the chance to comment to federal regulatory agencies.
Unfortunately, most of us do not. And part of the problem is that unless you pay close attention to the alphabet soup of agency acronyms and their business, it’s hard to know they want your opinion. Most of us don’t spend a lot of time reading the Federal Register.
I got an e-mail last week from a reporter who worked with me a few years back. Someone she works with showed her a picture of me and a friend taken in September at a journalism conference social event featuring an election theme.
In the photo, my friend and I held table centerpieces, donkeys. My former reporter’s colleague surmised that the photo represented a perfect example of liberal journalists displaying media bias.
I have worked as a journalist and journalism educator for 28 years. I still report and edit, and consume all kinds of news each day — TV, newspapers, magazines, the Web and in whatever form it gets delivered.
I have been a news consumer since childhood. I grew up in a family and with parents who believed that people need to know what’s going on in the world — the world defined very loosely: our neighborhoods, our cities, our states, the U.S. and all other places.
