Thomas Friedman in the New York Times Citigroup is lucky that Muammar el-Qaddafi was killed when he was. The Libyan leader’s death diverted attention from a lethal article involving Citigroup that deserved more attention because it helps to explain why many average Americans have expressed support for the Occupy Wall Street movement. The news was [...]
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The failure of poverty programs
David Brooks in the New York Times. Let’s say you want to reduce poverty. We have two traditional understandings of poverty. The first presumes people are rational. They are pursuing their goals effectively and don’t need much help in changing their behavior. The second presumes that the poor are afflicted by cultural or psychological dysfunctions [...]
What happened to Flight 447?
This isn’t exactly breaking news, PBS covered this last year but it’s amazing that simple $2500 pitot brought down one of the safest airliners on the market. Here is how the New York Time’s magazine explains the crash and disappearance of Flight 447. In the last four minutes before the crash, the airplane sent a [...]
What’s it like to write for the New York Times
Neil Strauss vs. the New York Times copy editor. Editing an article that quotes the Courtney Love lyric, “I’m eating you / I’m overfed” . . . COPYEDITOR: We have to remove that quote. What’s wrong with it? COPYEDITOR: It’s about oral sex. The whole article hinges on that lyric. COPYEDITOR: If you want, I [...]
The New York Times paywall and the future of journalism
Good editorial in the New York Times about why the New York Times has been quiet about their coming paywall. In it there is this interesting tidbit: The stakes for The Times, which like other newspaper companies has seen major declines in print advertising revenues, are enormous. I asked Mr. Morton to rate, on a [...]
The right tool to tell a story
The New York Times on using the iPhone to tell a story in a war zone. “Composing with the iPhone is more casual and less deliberate,” Mr. Winter said. “And the soldiers often take photos of each other with their phones, so they were more comfortable than if I had my regular camera.” Mr. Winter [...]
What it takes to be a New York Times photographer
Great video and story about what it takes to be a New York Times staff photographer. “I think we’re finished now. Thank you. Thank you.” The voice was clipped, the accent British and the tone could not be mistaken as an invitation to debate. Richard Perry, a staff photographer for The New York Times, was [...]
Time Travel as a Scientific Explanation
Let’s keep in mind that this was printed in the New York Times. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the Large Hadron Collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before [...]
