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  • Salutary reminder

    ''Golden Age'' is just the right description and antidote to pessimism: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5236208.ece Change is permanent and continuous: http://www.charliebeckett.org/?p=963
    Posted to Press Box by George Brock on July 2, 2009

  • Re: Pathetic.

    Yes, it's so wrong to deprecate your Sunday morning entertainment with a critical examination of the hero of the hour, a loss felt by 3.8 million viewers bonding over the depth of character and integrity that epitomize both television and politics in our age. Morons have no place in civil discoure. Go away, morons. Some of us are in mourning. ...
    Posted to Press Box by bluespapa on June 21, 2008

  • Re: Saint Tim

    I absolutely respect his family's private mourning, and his colleagues' and professional acquaintances' public tribute, but the quote from Rutten from the L.A. Times points to how insular and, as Rutten says, ''incestuous . . . the Washington-based nexus of politics and journalism has become.'' The cover was pulled back a bit when Russert ...
    Posted to Press Box by bluespapa on June 17, 2008

  • Slate Running to the Defense of Murdoch's Rep

    Rupert Murdoch is a major, worldwide corporatized Media Baron who is wealthy beyond comprehension of most Americans and certainly most people worldwide. Rupert Murdoch owns a media empire that just keeps expanding, and which now includes the Wall Street Journal, and apparently now, New York City's Newsday. I would like to see a complete list of ...
    Posted to Press Box by MichaelBernard1 on April 24, 2008

  • The Best Political Team on Television

    I don't watch much news on television, but I often watch ''Late Edition'' on Sunday, featuring Wolf Blitzer and the best.... I think he sometimes cites some award or other, but I thought it was for that particular show on CNN, not all of CNN. It is rather grating to hear his chant over and over. True, Blitzer is an upbeat fellow, no matter how ...
    Posted to Press Box by gmath309 on January 10, 2008

  • Smartest story? Hardly.

    Come on Jack. Is there an anti-drug war story you don't like? I bought RS on your recommendation and the story is very good...for getting me to sleep at night. It's almost as long as the drug war itself. I like reading things that tell me things I don't already know. This story doesn't. It's just grist for those 40- and 50-year-olds who still ...
    Posted to Press Box by mindbomber on December 10, 2007

  • Should Nina Totenberg Be Banned, Too?

    Questions for Jack Shafer:* Given the transgressions you note in your first paragraph, Should Nina Totenberg, Michael Kramer, Edwin Chen, and Fox Butterfield be banned from journalism as well?* Did you read Finkel's National Geographic piece? What did you think? Or do you feel that simply isn't relevant to the piece you wrote? * Has Slate ever ...
    Posted to Press Box by lsmithnet on July 29, 2007

  • Bravo to Jack Shafer!

    Thanks to Jack Shafer for pointing out the folly of the Slate Treehugger series and the laziness and misguidedness that underlies much of of green journalism. As someone who cares deeply about the environment and has gotten involved in many initiatives to reduce waste and energy use in my community, I am sad to see so many articles that make ...
    Posted to Press Box by jialanw on July 7, 2007