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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Is the Times Guilty of Wiki-pediment?
The soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture saga of New York Times reporter David Rohde – who was kidnapped, along with his translator, by the Taliban last November and escaped, along with his translator, last Saturday – has raised some Big J journalism questions about the … Continue reading
Gay Old Times at the New York Times
At least twice in the past month the New York Times has published stories with the basic theme, The American Public Is Way Out in Front of Politicians on Gay Rights. At the end of May there was Matt Bai’s … Continue reading
Anonymess
Confidential sources are the Achilles heel of print media. Part of the reason the general public doesn’t trust/believe/respect newspapers, for instance, is that the general public thinks it’s too easy for them to just make stuff up. See Jayson Blair … Continue reading
Times Report Lacks MySpice
Social networking giant MySpace is hardly going Friendster, but it does have its problems. Facebook is currently kicking its boot-up, reportedly drawing more monthly visitors than MySpace, which also is experiencing losses in page views and revenues. So what looked … Continue reading
Sanford an Easy Mark
I tend to agree with Slate’s John Dickerson’s piece on So. Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, which features this fabulous lede: Mark Sanford is no longer missing, but he’s obviously lost. I also agree with Lee Siegel’s Daily Beast post, in … Continue reading
Hello and Welcome
Despite Dr. Johnson’s excellent advice (see above right), I hereby claim my humble space in the blogosphere. (Big shoutout to blogger extraordinaire Dan Kennedy, whose helpful ministrations got me to the starting line.) Up until now, my blogging experience has … Continue reading
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