Tag: New York Times
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The Journalism of Artificial Panic
Last year featured a large sample of breathless reporting and bad takes regarding the economy, crime, and the mid-term elections. I’m calling this, the journalism of artificial panic. For most of the summer and early fall, mainstream media concern trolled all three topics relentlessly. That’s not to say these weren’t real, and important stories. In…
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That time the New York Times asked me a question
Sometimes organizations ask you to participate in a survey. Sometimes I feel like really giiving them a piece of my mind. This was one of those times.
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The Commercial Appeal and the Newsroom of the Future
The Commercial Appeal laid off 16 staffers yesterday, 12 from the newsroom. Gannett says this is the newsroom of the future. That’s not what it looks like.
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Just another election post-mortem
The Donald, the deplorables, and the decades long fight that brought us America’s first Reality-TV show President.
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The Plight of the Masters of the Universe
So the financial crisis has been raging really since early 2007, even though the real fallout didn’t start appearing until 2008. In this global crisis there have been millions of Americans impacted. Unemployment nationwide began rising in March of 2007, eventually peaking at 10.1% near the end of 2009, and has been largely stuck near…