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An odd contradiction on guns from the Times
Courtesy of The New York Times (Steve Ruark). Yesterday, The New York Times reported on a national trend of declining gun ownership: The rate has dropped in cities large and small, in suburbs and rural...
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Are online paywalls too little, too late?
Courtesy of LUMA Partners LLC. Michael Wolff thinks so: Without a dramatic turnaround in advertising income, there are only two strategies – neither mutually exclusive – for the continued existence of...
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“Gun shops were jammed.”
The New York Times is at it again. Last month, I noted an article by The New York Times‘ Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff, in which the two reported a long-term, steady decrease in gun ownership....
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Bill Keller wants to repeat history, which would make him wrong twice.
Last night, New York Times columnist (and former executive editor) Bill Keller’s column, “Syria Is Not Iraq,” appeared online. (It’s seen in the above screenshot at right, juxtaposed against equally...
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Enough with the social media articles
From yesterday’s online New York Times comes a story titled “As Social Media Swirl Around It, Supreme Court Sticks to Its Analog Ways:” The Web is ready, too. On Thursday, after the justices once again...
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Journalistic civil war
David Carr has really hit the nail on the head with his latest: The larger sense I get from the criticism directed at Mr. Assange and Mr. Greenwald is one of distaste — that they aren’t what we think...
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A tale of two platforms
My New York vignette sneaked its way into The New York Times (excerpted below): Like Bill de Blasio’s New York, West Fourth is a tale of two platforms. And although the teeming masses on each level...
View ArticleOn “Planet Hillary,” no one has a name
In tomorrow’s New York Times Magazine, Amy Chozick delves into the political intrigue surrounding Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions. The online hubbub over the article, titled “Planet Hillary,”...
View ArticleMarket failure
Proof that supply and demand are not always in perfect equilibrium, at least in the realm of quality journalism: What a contrast. Silicon Valley: where ideas come to launch. Washington, D.C., where...
View ArticleToday in Data: Basically, I feel like it’s pretty much terrible out there
This morning I was reading New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman’s mostly scathing review of the design of the brand-new 1 World Trade Center, when I came across this passage: Like the...
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