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The Annals of Radical Juxtaposition: Special Journalism Edition…
From Jim Fallows’ always-illuminating Atlantic blog, “Many Mental Patients Simply Walk Out“: I mentioned yesterday that I was “sure” it was an “accident” that the NYT juxtaposed two stories on its home...
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Freudian Slips…
From Fox News, announcing the big news story of May 1: BREAKING NEWS Obama Bin Laden Dead Still, Happy World Press Freedom Day! As we remember that, to paraphrase Craig Newmark, a free press is the...
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R.I.P., copy-editors and fact-checkers…
To begin this morning, a blast from the past, by way of saying Happy Mother’s Day! Now to more serious matters… source source It’s only natural that, as traditional news organizations shutter bureaus...
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In praise of punctiliousness…
On August 10 the website of the Athens [Georgia] Banner-Herald ran the headline “Man asked to clean up after dog pulls gun.” It has subsequently been changed. Via World Wide Words, where editor...
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Click bait…
From the ever-exquisite xkcd. ### As we linger over listicles, we might send almost-but-not-quite existential birthday greetings to Albert Camus; he was born on this date in 1913. A Nobel Prize...
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