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Terror and the template of disaster journalism
Natural disasters, airline crashes — and yes, terrorist bombs — undercut the normalcy of everyday life by bringing death’s whammy to an unexpected place at an unforeseen time. In the hours and days...
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Shameless paper in mindless fog
If our culture allowed diseased newspapers to be quarantined, I’d have the New York Post kenneled right now. I express that sentiment after reading the Post‘s Boston Marathon bombing coverage, in...
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In defense of journalistic error
Hilary Sargent, who does business on the Web as Chart Girl, compiled the best early guide to the journalistic mistakes made on the afternoon of April 17, as broadcasters and wire services moved their...
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ChartGirl boxes the news
If you’re the nautical sort, you probably interpret the news as a flow. If you hunt and peck on the typewriter, your news feed might resemble a pointillistic painting. But if you love to break ideas...
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