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April 2018

April 13, 2018

Double Exposure: Notes on “Weiner”

This is a documentary about Anthony Weiner's 2013 campaign for mayor of New York City....

January 2018

January 28, 2018

Newsman, All Too Newsman: “The Imperfectionists”

The Imperfectionists is a 2010 novel, or necklace of short stories, about an English-language newspaper...

November 2016

November 08, 2016

“Net Worth of White Households in DC Region is 81 Times That of Black Households”: Washington Post

basically runs a press release from the Urban Institute, but since I wanted to read...

July 2016

July 18, 2016

The Cathedral-Builders: Movie notes

In chronological order of when I saw them. The cathedrals are toward the end. Vic...

November 2015

November 03, 2015

Black and White and Red All Over: Short movie reviews, mostly noir

So while everybody else was celebrating Scary Movie Season, I was mostly at AFI's Noir...

October 2015

October 10, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

I'm gonna do this so it gets progressively cheerier as it goes on. The last...

July 2015

July 15, 2015

“Love Is a Losing Game”: I review an Amy Winehouse documentary

for AmCon: It’s impossible to describe Amy Winehouse’s voice. Crackly, crimson, fractured and sultry: That’s...

February 2015

February 13, 2015

David Carr, RIP

I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

A Well-Done Chart of Journalists Killed Since 1992

Easy to navigate. Here you go.

November 2014

November 03, 2014

No-Fly Zone Around Ferguson Was Totally Just to Keep Out the Press

I'm sure you're shocked: The U.S. government agreed to a police request to restrict more...

October 2014

October 02, 2014

“Mass Shooting Hysteria and the Death of John Crawford”: I’ll stop linking Radley Balko’s articles

when the nation stops needing them... ...There are some obvious questions here about police training,...

September 2014

September 06, 2014

“Mom Arrested for (Maybe) Hanging Up on Cop While Her Missing Daughter Plays at Church”: Reason

gives this story a much different headline from many mainstream media outlets. Let's find out...

September 02, 2014

“Hard Questions We’re Not Asking Pope Francis”: John L. Allen, Jr

item #2: Sex abuse is another front. An exception came with an Aug. 24 piece...

August 2014

August 14, 2014

“Journalists, Radio Hosts, Addicts, The Imprisoned, And the Pro-Life Movement”

an incomplete list of people St Maximilian Kolbe is the patron of. Whoa. His feast...

August 06, 2014

“The New York Times’s Coverage of Other Drugs Still Doesn’t Cut It”: Maia Szalavitz

at Substance.com: ...Schwarz goes on to describe how deputy/pharmacist Logan sometimes actually jumps over the...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

I Write About the Rise of Cracked.com as an Actual Journalism Behemoth Thing

for AmSpec: Gallows humor is one of the most traditional and least savory elements of...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

From Erich Kastner, “Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist”

tr. Cyrus Brooks: Rather against his will, Fabian was allowing Malmy to enlighten him on...

May 19, 2014

“Every Day Is Like Sunday: Rediscovering Wilfrid Sheed’s ‘The Hack'”

Me at AmCon: Don’t call Wilfrid Sheed’s 1963 The Hack a forgotten Catholic classic. I...

February 2014

February 06, 2014

Five Things for Thursday

What I've been reading. "Why Young Sexual Assault Victims Tell Incoherent Stories." When my alarmed...

January 2014

January 09, 2014

Radley Balko Helms New Washington Post Criminal Justice Blog

This is the John L. Allen, Jr. of criminal justice old-media coups. He starts out...

December 2013

December 10, 2013

“18th Century Fox”: Helen Rittelmeyer Is Hilarious

in AmSpec, on Burke-era popular conservatism: TWO THINGS ALL conservatives love are narratives of decline...

December 03, 2013

“Serious Christians Should Abstain From”… Thing I Totally Did

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry makes a very good point: Remember when Pope Francis gave that interview? And...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

“Hounding Whistleblowers Is Wrong”: David Cay Johnston

in Newsweek: ...I think Keller, my former boss, missed the underlying issue: Why assume that...

October 01, 2013

Evelyn Waugh’s Celebrity Ascesis

What on earth is going on in this "interview"? It is 20% actual interview, 50%...

September 2013

September 17, 2013

Christianity in Three Books?

Rod Dreher asks which three books we'd use to introduce Christianity--in at least a few...

August 2013

August 23, 2013

“Telling Africa’s Story” and more from John L. Allen Jr

in the Nat Cath Reporter: Any Western journalist who's spent time in Africa knows the...

August 08, 2013

How To Improve Mainstream Media Coverage of Abortion?

LiveAction asks the right questions, as does GetReligion.

June 2013

June 30, 2013

UPDATE to Mexican Drug-War Journalism Story: Plagiarism, Self-Promotion?

At least some part of this story may be false. See here and here. THANKS...

June 27, 2013

“Mexico Relies on Social Media for Drug War News”: The Fix–UPDATED

reports: With most mainstream media sources silenced by fear of the drug cartels, social media...

June 26, 2013

I Suppose Character Assassination Is Still Better Than the Other Kind

but this little tale of the hunt for dirt on Glenn Greenwald should make you...