CJR: Why We Love The Political Gabfest
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Though it is (broadly) a political analysis show, the Politcal Gabfest sometimes makes me laugh out loud. There was one evening last summer where I was that strange person on the subway, giggling maniacally, unable to stop as I listened to the show. The conversation had turned to dogs and mimes. You had to be there.
At Work in Syria, Times Correspondent Anthony Shadid Dies
The death of Mr. Shadid, an American of Lebanese descent who had a wife and two children, abruptly ended one of the most storied careers in modern American journalism. Fluent in Arabic, with a gifted eye for detail and contextual writing, Mr. Shadid captured dimensions of life in the Middle East that many others failed to see. Those talents won him a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 2004 for his coverage of the American invasion of Iraq and the occupation that followed, and a second Pulitzer in 2010, also for his Iraq reporting, both of them for The Washington Post. He also was a finalist in 2007 for his coverage of Lebanon, and has been nominated by The Times for his coverage of the Arab Spring uprisings that have transfixed the Middle East for the past year.
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily reside in the middle of the road, and I want leaders who do the right thing, not the centrist thing.
Enough of “the view from nowhere”.
NYU Journalism Professor on Pro-Am Journalism: I’d give us a C-minus
“Pro journalism has never been optimized for high participation. But participatory media hasn’t been optimized for quality journalism, either. That right there is the work we need to do.”
Closely Held Company: Is the Author of 'Too Big to Fail' Too Schmoozy With Wall Street?
“There’s just something distasteful about the book (and by proxy, movie), and the fact that it looks like Hank Paulson wrote it. The book doesn’t consider what happened on the other end of the mortgages. There’s just something about the way Andrew crafted the book, and the movie just makes Wall Street sexy. [It] … isn’t.”
