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Category Archives: Journalism
The David Horovitz Hero System
In September 2025 David Horovitz (b. 1962) flies into Damascus. He travels with a group of rabbis and American Jews whom the new Syrian foreign ministry has invited, in the weeks after the Assad regime fell. He is among the … Continue reading
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Successful Journalists on Substack Don’t do Much Journalism
Look at who earns the money. The biggest news Substack is Heather Cox Richardson, about a million dollars a month from close to three million subscribers, and she writes no original reporting. She explains the day’s news through a historian’s … Continue reading
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Journalist Amy Wallace Consistently Chooses Sides
Read Amy Wallace the usual way and she has a value. Truth over comfort, sympathy for the one the world has flattened, the witness who cannot be bought. David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory says there is no such value, in her … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘Why Virginia Roberts Giuffre Would Not Stop Talking About Jeffrey Epstein’
Amy Wallace writes for The New York Times Oct. 19, 2025: Since 2011, when Ms. Giuffre publicly accused Mr. Epstein (she was the first of his victims to forgo anonymity), she repeatedly revealed — in depositions, lawsuits and interviews — … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘Life as a Female Journalist: Hot or Not?’
Amy Wallace wrote Jan. 19, 2014 for The New York Times: LOS ANGELES — IN 2009, I wrote a cover story for Wired magazine about the anti-vaccine movement and profiled Paul Offit, a leading proponent of vaccines for children. Dr. … Continue reading
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The Hero System of Journalist Amy Wallace
Amy Wallace wrote the killer 2001 Peter Bart takedown for Los Angeles magazine. She keeps finding the same man. Baz Luhrmann (b. 1962) sits up in bed after noon dreading the universe leaving him behind. Garry Shandling (1949-2016) molts and … Continue reading
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Maggie Haberman’s Hero System
The man who calls her a third-rate reporter calls her, and the two facts are one fact. Maggie Haberman (b. 1973) builds the most consequential franchise in modern political journalism on a single transaction. She takes the call. She pulls … Continue reading
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Jonathan Swan’s Hero System
In the Australian party room a prime minister can be finished by Thursday. The numbers move in a corridor, a faction shifts, the caucus votes, and the man who led the country at breakfast clears his desk by dark. Jonathan … Continue reading
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The Columbia Journalism Review’s Hero System
The Columbia Journalism Review became the conscience of the journalism profession through the consistent publishing of analysis that served the guild better than any competitor. Founded in 1961 at Columbia’s journalism school, it calls itself the watchdog and friend of … Continue reading
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Philosopher Michael Huemer: ‘Don’t Trust the Media’
Huemer writes June 14, 2026: Here is why I don’t trust the media, and you shouldn’t either. As near as I can tell, this is how the system works: Step 1: Something happens in the non-media world. Step 2: A … Continue reading
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