December 14, 2011 |
Sometimes, I don’t want to be reminded of the past. Social networks don’t help.
This “bubbling up” of the past seems to be happening more often these days, and we have sites like Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter to blame. Conversations are meant to end at some point. But social sites want to keep a “conversation” going, long after it should have stopped.
October 25, 2011 |
Get Alerted When Each Show’s Out! Want to get an email as soon as each episode is released? Just sign up here — it’s 100% spam-free and your information will never be shared with anyone else. It’ll only be used to alert you to new episodes, once a week. Taking Crazy Back: Episode 2 “Bi-Polar [...]
October 11, 2011 |
For the next five weeks, I’m producing and hosting a radio series about mental health and addictions. It airs Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. on Great Talk AM 1110 KWDB. This is episode one. Click the yellow play button on the right to play. Show runs 55 minutes. Taking Crazy Back – Episode 1 by todmaffin Links [...]
August 31, 2011 |
My first job in radio was for a small radio network in the B.C. interior. Within weeks of starting, the local newspaper reporter told me that a death we’d reported on a few days previous was, in fact, a suicide. I called my News Editor. “We don’t report suicides,” he sternly told me. “No media [...]
July 28, 2011 |
It was a slow, summer news week, so Amy Winehouse’s death was covered non-stop, with cable news pundits lining up to ask incessantly “Why didn’t she just quit?” I used to wonder that about addicts and alcoholics too. And then, I became one. A lot of heartache and destruction occurred as a direct result of [...]
