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The crisis in print journalism seems to be worsening, or at least ripening. It’s not just the incredible shrinking daily paper, but monthly magazines (including Wired, so it’s not outdated content) and it’s not just periodicals but books, and not just print media but music and video. Us shadetree mechanics always look for one specific [...]
Archive for the ‘Journalism (Online and Otherwise)’ Category
August 9th, 2008
Category: Journalism (Online and Otherwise)
Why are you even thinking about the election, or global warming, or Georgia, or the Olympics, when this complete-in-every-way story has broken? What more could you possibly want? Perhaps the entire future of journalism has been upstaged once and for all: Unrequited love Maybe requited love Cold case Cloning Sex slavery Role reversal (he’s the [...]
July 11th, 2008
Category: Blogging, Evolutionary psychology, History, Humour, Journalism (Online and Otherwise), Literature, MSM (mainstream media), Woolgathering
Addison and Steele as proto-bloggers.
April 1st, 2008
Press TV (Iran’s Russia Today/Fox News official 24-hour propaganda channel) profiles John McCain. They’re not impressed: Iowa Senator Charles Grassley who was subject to McCain’s “I’m calling you a f****** jerk!” said in an interview that he was so upset by the tirade that he did not speak to him for two years. Many say [...]
March 27th, 2008
NPR stokes the liberal-bias canard.
February 22nd, 2008
Left, Right, and Lunar all agree on Kosovo.
January 16th, 2008
There’s a good reason why so few foreign-policy realists get high-profile commentator gigs-but they’re not an empty set.
January 23rd, 2006
Category: Journalism (Online and Otherwise)
It is with great sadness that I report that the magazine Legal Affairs is suspending its print edition, having failed to attract sufficient funding to keep it afloat. This is a genuine loss to American journalism, for two reasons. First, LA is a publication of exceptional quality, filling a real void between the law journals, [...]
