Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Monday, April 22, 2013

Note to journalists -- you don't have to believe everything they tell you (business model edition)

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File this one with the flack-to-hack series, that part of the decline in journalism that can be attributed to increased willingness to prin...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Did Dickens meet Dostoevsky? -- Opinions differ

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Ross MacDonald books often start with a family that seems perfect except for one element out of place (like an angry, disturbed child) but w...
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Friday, January 18, 2013

Just another (incredibly bizarre) data point

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I dislike posts and op-eds that use the latest big news story as an excuse to mount a favorite hobby horse, but I can't pass this one up...
Friday, March 16, 2012

How our inability to distinguish between independence and contrarianism encourages Steve Landsburg to be, let's just say, a less effective pundit

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[I decided that the tone was getting a bit sharp in this debate so I'm dialing things down a bit. This entailed some very slight rewriti...
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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Is consistency too much to ask?

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Paul Krugman points out a nasty trick : In legal terms, the program is funded not just by today’s payroll taxes, but by accumulated past sur...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

A different point of view on Michael Lewis

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See here . My favorite part: Yet, Germany is a prosperous and pleasant nation to live in; one of the best in the world. Germany mana...
Friday, April 9, 2010

Chait on careers in journalism

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I had some posts up earlier (see here and here ) on how economic changes had affected the career options for writers of fiction. Over at Th...