Archive for the ‘Journalism’ Category
Pregnant and embedded: Not your usual Afghanistan story
I just finished reading this remarkable piece by Elizabeth Rubin, a foreign correspondent who’s been coming and going from Afghanistan for quite awhile. Her work in the New York Times Magazine is a reporting tour de force, and she goes to lengths that push the description of her work as “immersion” journalism. No wonder, then, [...]
Will Steve Jobs’ #iPad kill free speech?
I would have seen that headline and rolled my eyes, except for this: The man who just won the Pulitzer Prize for cartoons can’t sell his cartoons on Apple because the company thinks his work is “defamatory.”
Apparently they’ve never heard of satire (which may explain why they, possibly, got so cranky about the Fake [...]
Watch for it
This book, I mean. This discovery saved what would otherwise have been a wasted hour screwing around on the Internet, link to link to link, but bam, suddenly, I can’t even remember how, I somehow found out about an upcoming book called Day of Honey. It looks so good it should have a [...]
Meaning and myth through the photographer’s lens
Much ado about pictures lately. Not long after I asked last week whether portraits of Rwandan survivors that got a nod from the NYT really told us much, the Lens Blog followed up with portraits of Holocaust survivors. Here’s what duckrabbit had to say (thanks, Scarlettlion):
Do the photos really tell us anything about [...]
Creepiest Google searcher ever, and a confidentiality conundrum
Like a lot of bloggers, weird Google search terms will send people my way. I used the word “thighs” in a blog headline once, and now every week I get a few people who I’m pretty sure are just looking for porn. Awesome.
But here’s a Google search term that’s also a reminder of how important [...]
‘How we know waterboarding works,’ by the CIA
Remember that guy who went on ABC and said, “Waterboarding works. One douse, and this al Qaeda guy totally opened up.” (Okay, maybe it went more like this: “From that day [we waterboarded him] on, he answered every question. The threat information he provided disrupted a number of attacks, maybe dozens of attacks.”)
His [...]
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