Category Archives: Journalism

A Mesmerizing Car Chase

I can’t look away when the TV plays a car chase. For the past 20 minutes, since getting home from therapy, I’ve been getting things done while also glancing regularly at the TV screen. A beautiful blonde is driving a … Continue reading

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Does Judaism Sanction Journalism?

Orthodox rabbi Gil Student writes: R. Eliezer Melamed is active with Arutz Sheva and is the rabbi of the weekly newspaper Be-Sheva (link). In one of his columns (13 Tammuz, 5765/ July 20, 2005), he responded to a question about … Continue reading

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Getting The Full Story

From page 230 of the book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain: The Harvard Kennedy School’s Joseph Nye has suggested a site like urban legend debunker snopes.com be instituted for reputation, a place … Continue reading

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How Come So Few Print Journalists Are Hot?

I don’t get it. About a quarter of young female lawyers are hot. About a quarter of young female professionals are hot. Yet print journalism attracts 99% dogs. Why? I love journalism and I love women and I’d really love … Continue reading

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Behind Caroline Kennedy

From New York magazine: Today the Observer has some suggestions of why the New York Post may have endorsed the inexperienced Caroline Kennedy so quickly and giddily for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. Was it because: • She helped get News … Continue reading

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