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This story is bananas: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/25/alito-flag-martha-ann-washington-post/ It’s hard to know where to start with this, but starting with how this story demonstrates the failure of local news seems like a good place to jump in. OK, fine, don’t click the link. This is about Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s house that had an upside-down U.S. flag … Read more
The B Section: The creators of “The Office” announced plans for a reboot, and instead of a paper company, it will be a newspaper. A struggling one, and the editor will be trying to keep it alive with volunteer reporters. Honestly, my first thought was, “Yeah, that is basically what is happening now.” Not for … Read more
A longtime editor for NPR recently published an essay about his assertion that NPR had gone astray. If you’re someone who thinks as obsessively about good journalism as I do, you should read it. Unfortunately, it did require me to visit the Free Press website for the first time, led by Bari Weiss, and I … Read more
Right around this time in 2022, I was wandering around the University of North Carolina campus finally putting two and two together. I’d been invited to participate in a roundtable about journalism and noticed that the ride from the airport to the university was congested. The Lyft driver said something people being there for the … Read more