Month: March 2009

  • Unrequired Reading {2.3.09 to 3.3.09}

    These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:

  • Post-accountability govt: way down in the hole

    How many times have you read democracy will suffer without journalism to keep it honest? I gave up counting a long time ago. But the most powerful anecdotal (of course!) reformulation of this hoary nostrum comes from David Simon in the Washington Post. In the course of railing against a ‘cover-up’ in the Baltimore Police…