
Journalism is the First Rough Draft of History, framing history being made today
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates published this brief essay yesterday. If I could interview him these are the points I’d like to take up.
The essay begins with a lede paragraph in boldface placed in a box:
The transition to the AI era will...
In the news business August has the reputation of being the silly season. Everyone is away grabbing some holiday time, no one is paying attention, events that would never be brought up for discussion in the morning news conference suddenly...
In May 1765, Patrick Henry rose to speak against the Stamp Act in Virginia’s House of Burgesses. The Stamp Act was a tax on British America’s colonists to help pay off the debts incurred during the French and Indian aka Seven Years’ War....
Standards of institutional journalism in America have slipped dramatically over the last decade as the past week reminded people. It began with hypersalivation over the prospect of yet another DSA member, Francesca Hong, winning the Wiscons...
This is a story from fifty years ago. An almost, what if tale.
The thoughts of an old man in a dry month.
(Well, old, but young at heart)
If they want you, they will find you. The phone rings at my parents’ house in the Philadelphia sub...
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