Journalists fight for access against the all-consuming control of the Ford government
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Who Are “we” Writing For?
A Nieman Lab 2019 prediction calls for journalists to take more consideration into word-choice.
PMJT is hot. Get over it.
Politics is about perception (and always has been). Official messages are carefully constructed to paint a specific type of picture. It’s the journalist’s job, theoretically at least, to find the flaws and the hidden distortions in that image. But what if the picture is perfect and makes everyone happy? A hot prime minister meets a… Continue reading PMJT is hot. Get over it.
Sketches of Obe
Don Obe 1936-2014 No better magazine editor ever put pencil to paper than Don Obe. And that’s when he would have stopped me. “Awkward sentence, Paul,” he would have said. “And what kind of pencil? Short? Stubby? 2B? HB? Eraser? Details, Paul, details.” I met Don at this time of year in 1961… Continue reading Sketches of Obe