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I was in Russia when a tourist from New York turned to me and said, “Whatever happened to Chicago?” To this mysterious question he added, “I kept thinking it was going to break through, but it never did.” Nonplussed, I tried to think of a Chicago breakthrough. Eventually I must have sputtered something about Nobel [...]
Archive for the ‘Journalism (Online and Otherwise)’ Category
March 31st, 2013
Some thoughts appear below the fold on the apology:
January 9th, 2013
Category: 2013 Democratic Agenda, Debt ceiling, Journalism (Online and Otherwise), Policy Analysis, Republican Party, Uncategorized
Although I sometimes disagree with Jonathan Chait (as in this RBC post), I’ve been a big fan since his days at The New Republic. He now writes for New York Magazine, which published his remarkably prescient mid-October essay about the fiscal cliff. Directly or indirectly, that essay shaped much of the subsequent public debate on [...]
October 18th, 2012
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Economics, Handbasket, world going to hell in, Journalism (Online and Otherwise), Policy briefs, Wayward press
Two significant pieces of news today: Google’s earnings (and stock price) are down, and Newsweek has given up on a paper edition.The Newsweek story is only the latest step down a path to oblivion, as the digital edition cannot survive financially either and will close down in turn. This is happening because the business models [...]
October 14th, 2012
Category: Health and Medicine, Intellectual disability, Journalism (Online and Otherwise), Personal moment, Sports
Most reports of Alex Karras’s death noted that he had dementia, but not that he attributed his dementia to his years playing in the NFL. Nor did they mention that he was one of the players suing the League for concealing what it knew about the long-term effects of concussion. These omissions do a disservice [...]
August 16th, 2012
Category: Journalism (Online and Otherwise), Mitt Romney, Politics and Leadership, Taxation, Wayward press
If you treat everything described in ordinary conversational English by an airline ticket as the same, you can get some decisions right, but for many, you need to discriminate within the broad category. Same with taxes: Mitt Romney pays sales taxes, property taxes, automobile and gasoline excise taxes on at least a pair of Cadillacs, [...]
June 26th, 2012
Category: Blogging, Journalism (Online and Otherwise)
Ezra Klein offers an extraordinarily perceptive analysis of how lobbyists influence Congress, Minjae Park cuts through the simplified rhetoric about how admitting international students necessarily promotes cultural interchange at U.S. universities, Kevin Drum worries about a coming inter-generational struggle among Americans, Kathleen Geier illuminates the work of film critic Andrew Saris and journalist Gitta Serenyi, [...]
February 8th, 2012
Category: Journalism (Online and Otherwise)
channeling the RBC (ht: Mark Delucchi) . If only we could draw…
September 12th, 2011
Requiem for the past subjunctive.