Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Monday, May 29, 2023

Watergate

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 In the process of reading Garrett Graff's Watergate.  It's a reminder of how we simplify our history--many reporters involved other...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

The Last Mile Problem

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 I've used this term before, writing about government.  A slightly different focus this time: local government, schools, libraries, etc....
Thursday, March 31, 2022

What We've Lost--LWV and Local Papers

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 My cousin, Marjorie Harshaw Robie, is recalling her days on the Ipswich School Committee by a series of posts Facebook page.  Her initial r...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

The Role of Intermediaries

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 Started reading Sarah Chayes, " Thieves of State, Why Corruption Threatens Global Security ". Early on she generalizes between Ea...
Friday, September 03, 2021

The Olden Days--Tramps and Newsreels

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 Remembering our childhoods with a relative this morning.  Two things I thought of later: after the war there was, for a while, discussion o...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

The Competition for Attention

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 Ezra Klein in his "Why We're Polarized" points out there's been a big increase in the competition for attention (my term)...
Thursday, August 01, 2019

The End of City Newspapers?

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Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution has a post showing the decline in circulation of big city newspapers over the last 17 years.  Some pape...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Slow on the Uptake

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Megan McArdle  is just one of the commentators who are using the Justsie Smollett  "fake racist attack" episode to caution people ...
Monday, July 09, 2018

One of the Mysteries of the Economy Is Solved

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Economists are moaning about how the U.S. economy isn't increasing in productivity as fast as it used to. There's an observation, ...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

It Was a Different Century: 1998

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" ” It took three weeks of lobbying the top editors of the  Washington Post  to get me access to the internet." Susan Glasser re...
Friday, December 22, 2017

The Decline of a Completist

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"Completist" is a term used by the new publisher of the NYTimes in his interview with the editor of the New Yorker.  It means some...
Sunday, August 14, 2016

WSJ Is Unfair to Dairy

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Disregard the article (which is about attempts to regulate methane from cattle) and focus on the picture.(Article may be behind a pay wall...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Unbelievable Fact in the Times

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The NYTimes has a piece on who supports Trump, including this table: "correlations are shown in red . Variable ...
Friday, February 19, 2016

The No-Good Thieving Daily Mail

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I'm taking Nathan Yau's account at face value, but it seems convincing--in short, The Daily Mail has stolen his visualizations twice...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Tipping, An Old Tradition

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My newspaper delivery person(s) send Christmas cards with envelopes with their return address, as a gentle plea for a tip.  ("Person(s)...
Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Good Movies: The Spotlight

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Just saw Spotlight, an account of the Boston Globe's investigation into pedophile priests and the cover-up. It's very good, so far a...
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Erroneous Payments: Two Views

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"If I were to tell you that the Social Security disability program was 99.88 percent accurate in issuing benefit amounts to recipients...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Nice Paragraph: Fargo II

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" Maybe the FX series Fargo is so good because blood looks so beautiful on snow. Red splashes against white, soaking into it, markin...
Friday, October 09, 2015

Al Kamen and the Post

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Al Kamen was the Federal Page man for the Washington Post.  He's retiring today , but presumably the page continues.  Before him the Po...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Monarchs in Hawaii--Who Knew?

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A reminder that it's all too easy for the media and its audience to become focused on certain undeniable truths, so narrowly focused tha...