Soon-to-be slivered Jack Shafer of Slate.com on the excesses of Wonkette and Gawker. If you’ve yet to visit these blogs, imagine them as the twin offspring of a date-rape incident between Drudge Report and the original Spy magazine. Ouch. Another…
A coup for Claire
Claire Zulkey interviews Dave Barry. An excerpt: Who are some of your favorite humor writers? Steve Martin, Carl Hiaasen, Roy Blount Jr., Gene Weingarten, the late great Robert Benchley, the Onion people, and a bunch more whose names escape me…
What’s out there, anyway?
Sheila Lennon points to a wonderful slide show of pictures taken by the Hubble telescope. Seeing pictures of galaxies colliding and suns exploding really makes me wonder, what is that stuff, and what’s happening there? What can I say? I…
Covering sports in Spain
Newsdesigner shows the front pages of Spanish sports dailies in response to the train bombings. I hope I never get to the point where I understand what makes people think it’s OK to blow up other people.
Doug, you’re a blogger now
Doug Clifton, head of state in the Plain Dealer newsroom, earns his wings in the Blogosphere with his latest post — a rant on why people are so damn stupid. Until now Doug’s role as representative of the North Ohio…
When news is a conversation…
Sometimes people have to be told to shut the hell up. Here’s why the Spokesman Review stopped putting reader feedback at the bottom of stories: First, it was very labor-intensive to gather that feedback. Once a day on weekdays, an…