I bought a copy of the not-strictly literary magazine, The Baffler, last weekend at a Davis-Kidd sale. I had not seen a copy in a long time and apparently it has been on a sort of sabbatical. I am glad to see it back in the magazine racks.
As best i can describe it, The Baffler [...]
The News Business —
Category Archives: The News Business
The Baffler returns
Grab the current news stand issue of the Atlantic [Monthly] & read …
the article by Mark Bowden, “Behind the story,” starting on Page 47. The cutbacks in staffs of journalists and the demise of newspapers and the demand for 24/7 news by cable, networks, Internet has left the public vulnerable to operatives on the Left and Right pushing their take on things.
After tracking down the sources of [...]
advocacy-oriented think tank studies have better odds of making the news
From an email I received Monday from the folks at the Education and the Public Interest Center (EPIC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Education Policy Research Unit (EPRU) at Arizona State University:
BOULDER, Colo., and TEMPE, Ariz. (July 27, 2009) — University and government research gets the most play in two of [...]
Who’s around after 26 years? Ads from 1983 Newsweek
There were 59 ads in the Spring 1983 50th anniversary issue of Newsweek. The content of the issue tracked the story of five families of Springfield, Ohio from 1933 to 1983. But I thought, in this post, I would just list the ads.
Car, electronics, financial services, alcohol and cigarettes made up most of the ad [...]
Bernie Sanders’ take on the middle class and Finland
Last night on his Journal, Bill Moyer mentioned the booklet of emails Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders received when he asked his constituents to tell him “what was going on in their lives economically.” He said he received over 600 replies. He has entitled his booklet, Collapse of the Middle Class: Letters from Vermont and America. [...]
Yet winning basketball games pales…
With the recent natural disasters here and abroad and the magnitude of death and destruction I pause and wonder how appropriate it is to celebrate a basketball win. I’ve worked and we’ve traveled in those areas in the Midwest and have friends in Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma. Did I miss any? I don’t [...]
The forgotten rewards of reading a physical, hardcopy of a newspaper
I’ve been meaning to comment on this for a while since we started our home delivery subscription to The New York Times at the beginning of the month. In reading the paper in its original ink and newsprint version, I’ve come across articles and read that I never would have with the on-line version. The [...]