Author: tom

Where were the copy editors?

Jack Shafer of Slate eviscerates the New York Times Sunday Magazine cover story on sex slaves in America. (More at the Radosh Blog). Without rehashing everything, suffice to say that every question Shafer and Radosh pose sound exactly like the…

Still going

An interesting look at staying in shape and extending the body’s expiration date. Interesting to me because I’m doing the same thing. On topic, sort of, because I found it at Ken Stone’s Master’s Track page.

Earth to Mr. Clifton:

Nobody’s buying that “trust us, we’re unbiased” line anymore. For more on this, see everything Jay Rosen has written in the past few months.

Adding comments to news stories

Here’s a story about the advantages of digital cameras from the BBC (thanks JD for the link). One thing I noted was that it allows reader comments at the end. Why isn’t every newspaper on earth doing this?

On getting serious

Well, I’ve found fresh font of fury, which is always welcome in the blogosphere, from this Seattle PI story about how people under 30 tune out the news. See, I read it about 15 minutes after reading Part 5 in…

A few more editors’ blogs

Design prodigy Tim Ball has a nifty blog. He’s design honcho at a newspaper in Wisconsin. Lately he’s been tracking an awesome concert coming his way. Remember the story about my co-worker who had a new digital camera the same…

For all you campaign junkies

The pundits over at Daily Kos have all sorts of interesting stuff to say about where the Democratic primary goes next. Click ‘n’ read the whole thing — lots of juicy tidbits.