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The British National Party – a mash-up challenge
The British National Party once posted my email address on their website. I got 400 emails of varying degrees of unpleasantness – my favourite being the one that described me as a “nigger-loving, Jew.” Yes, it takes a lot of imagination to work racism against black people and anti-semitism into one easy epithet. Now the…
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Good journalism’s demand ‘problem’
The Columbia Journalism Review takes on a familiar trope – the scarcity of attention – and riffs on it in relation to journalism. Attention—our most precious resource—is in increasingly short supply. To win the war for our attention, news organizations must make themselves indispensable by producing journalism that helps make sense of the flood of…
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The Magnificent Folly of Great American News Reporting
I don’t know John Crewdson, but I’m sorry he’s out of a job. He’s the subject of this post at the Chicago Reader: The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded last month to Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi of the Pasteur Institute in Paris for discovering the HIV virus in 1983 – but not to…