Politics, storytelling … and TV ad spots
Columnist and Board Secretary Richard Campbell writes that storytelling, true or false, is at the center of political advertising in every election cycle.
Richard Campbell
It’s the story, stupid!
Storytelling is our common ground in society, columnist Richard Campbell writes. Stories can help us bond with one another and shape our beliefs.
Bias and the news: A primer
Political bias gets a lot of attention in discussions about media, but Board Secretary Richard Campbell writes that other types of bias should get more attention.
TV is changing. Can we keep up, and do we want to?
When columnist Richard Campbell finds a TV show he doesn't like nowadays, he has a simple way to describe it: too network-y. For Campbell, the changes streaming have brought to television are welcome ones.
Delivering the news: A community project
My brothers and I (Tom, Dick, and Harry … seriously) started our working lives delivering the afternoon Dayton Daily News in our modest suburban neighborhood in the 1960s. Our mother (the woman who named us) won a contest in 2019 as the oldest continuous reader of the Dayton Daily News. Starting