Empty Nast Syndrome: Condé Nast Cutting Five Percent of All Magazine Staffs
According to the article, The New Yorker will not be spared in this.
The New Yorker, easily one of the top five most important journalist institutions in the US.
I think it’s time to stop putting off renewing my subscription.
via gary
There’s this thing called The Google, and if you’re going to write a boasting column saying “I told you so” about some cunning prediction you made that eventually turned out to be true, it’s not hard for us to go back through archives and find out that you predicted just the opposite.
Yes, that’s sarcasm:
Not a single conservative has explained on what basis the LA Times should break the journalist/source privilege by releasing a video they agreed they wouldn’t release. A journalist is supposed to be willing to go to jail in order to protect a confidential source and meet the pre-interview agreements.
So if a journalist isn’t supposed to break that privilege at risk of going to jail, how have conservatives somehow convinced themselves that the LA Times should cave under the weight of their shrieking demands?
They’ve put up rewards for the video as high as $200,000. If the person who shot it wants to come forward with it, then let him or her. I wouldn’t mind seeing the video myself, not that I think it would change my mind on who I’m voting for. But to spend your time beating down on the Times as somehow suppressing the video — when in fact they were the ones that reported on its contents — indicates that said shriekers have no respect or understanding for what journalism is.
My article this week at PBS discusses econ bloggers and how their coverage compares to the mainstream financial press: Econ Bloggers Gain Clout in Financial Crisis
Why McCain is getting hosed in the press:
“As it happens, McCain’s campaign is going quite poorly and Obama’s is going well. Imposing artificial balance on this reality would be a bias of its own.”
You know the so-called “mullet blogs” I’m always yabbering about? I’ve noticed this on Salon for the past few days:
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