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The world has become a fractured place, as philosopher Louis Hodges has written. This fractured state can be confusing and, at times, paralyzing for media professionals, particularly managers, on both professional and personal levels. This article takes an unusual approach by offering hope via one person and one book and one idea: philosopher/theologian Paul Tillich and The Courage to Be. It merges Tillich's abstract concepts of religion, existentialism, anxiety, and the symbolic nature of God with the concrete dimensions of today's media world and offers a useful philosophical realm for media managers, academics, and the common person. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The "hows" and "whys" of Janet Cooke's fabricated "Jimmy's World" have rumbled through the professional and scholarly realms since its publication on September 28, 1980. This rhetorical criticism of Cooke's article sheds light - through gestalt comparing and contrasting - on how Cooke skillfully paired legitimate characters with fictitious characters in order to create a sense of realism throughout the article which resulted in the story being accepted as authentic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]