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journalism
Vox Goes Funny on Us
In an otherwise serious piece of journalism about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Sarah Kliff punned it up with one familiar ACA term among a list of explanatory entries. What’s an individual man date? That’s when two dudes hang out together in a non-romantic way, although it really …
Glenn Greenwald Coming Back to America
The journalist who released Edward Snowden’s leaked information through The Guardian is coming back to the U.S. to receive the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting. Glenn Greenwald returns despite the fact that he may be detained and charged as a criminal by the government (his partner was recently detained …
Famously Headlined: The Washington Bullsh*t Report
Andrew Sullivan speaks highly of Mark Halperin in his latest blog post: No one does it better than Mark Halperin. Every single thing he cites in his latest brain-dead critique is, I believe, tangibly false, and the moronic attempt to grab some pageviews by a counter-intuitive and utterly dumb analogy …
Government Intervention: We Need More Serious Journalism
If this is true, it’s depressingly humorous: The newspaper industry is suffering "market failure" and the government will need to help preserve serious journalism essential to democracy, an influential US congressman said Wednesday. [what the hell is serious journalism?] It gets even more depressing… "Eventually, government is going to have …