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Articles Written by: JACK SHAFER
Who is This?
Jack Shafer's writes the Press Box column for online magazine Slate. Before joining Slate, he was editor for two city weeklies, Washington City Paper and SF Weekly. Much of Shafer's writing focuses on what he sees as a lack of precision and rigor in reporting by the mainstream media. One frequent topic is media coverage of the War on Drugs.
In the annals of stupid drug reporting, a special commendation must be reserved for NBC's Today show, which on Nov. 19 aired (video) one the stupidest drug stories in broadcast news. The program, which specializes in terrorizing mothers with ...
From JACK SHAFER,
Slate,
20 Nov 2009
Rupert Murdoch knows two modes: doing things and talking about doing things.
When he's doing things, nobody does so more decisively and with greater impact than Murdoch. Take, for example, his destruction of U.K. union power at Wapping, his purchase ...
From JACK SHAFER,
Slate,
10 Nov 2009
Who doesn't adore Jim Brady, the former executive editor of the Washingtonpost.com? Even I like him, and I don't like anybody. He's proved himself as a reporter, a manager, and an executive, and unlike most people in the business, he's not especially ...
From JACK SHAFER,
Slate,
29 Oct 2009
How touchy can you get?
The White House fires a few pop-guns in the direction of Fox News Channel, and suddenly everybody from Louis Menand in The New Yorker to Michael Scherer in Time to Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post is heralding the ...
From JACK SHAFER,
Slate,
26 Oct 2009
Reporters fancy themselves wicked cynics who automatically assume the worst of people until proved otherwise. But there's a soft spot in the medulla oblongata of even the most hard-boiled reporter where if you tickle it just so, he'll fall into a ...
From JACK SHAFER,
Slate,
22 Oct 2009
For 20 years or longer, author-illustrator Maurice Sendak has claimed that child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim mercilessly attacked his 1963 book Where the Wild Things Are when it was first published, causing him and the book great damage.
"Wild ...
From JACK SHAFER,
Slate,
15 Oct 2009
Ramparts stands with a handful of 20th-century American magazines — Playboy, the Harold Hayes-era Esquire, Rolling Stone, Spy and Wired — whose glory days continue to influence editors. Each of these magazines not only grabbed the zeitgeist but shaped ...
The canonization of TV newsman Tim Russert, which began a year ago when he died from a heart attack at 58, will be completed next month when the Newseum, in Washington, D.C., finishes making a shrine of his NBC News office.
According to an Associated ...
From JACK SHAFER,
Slate,
8 Oct 2009
If you're a blogger and you write about goods or services—and what blogger doesn't write about books, movies, music, theater, restaurants, home theaters, laptops, manicures, clothing, tutoring, bicycles, cars, boats, cameras, strollers, watches, lawn ...
From JACK SHAFER,
Slate,
7 Oct 2009
The recession didn't become real for the foodies at Slate until this morning, when Condé Nast shoved the 69-year-old magazine Gourmet into the whirling jaws of an InSinkErator. Don't even talk to Gourmet fans about switching to a different food ...
From JACK SHAFER,
Slate,
5 Oct 2009
