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Oh! Ach! Oh! It’s Supersnoop!

‘When I would hear of some anomaly that fit the mold, my skin would crawl. This, I feared, will make the Times.’

Book excerpt:

‘Newsgames: Journalism at Play’ by Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer

The CJR clearly thinks that watching Seinfeld is instruction enough in how to erect a Festivus Pole…

Thuggish is the reputation Nick Denton wants…

Silence or Death in Mexico’s Press

Tarzan of the Boudoir!

‘Filipino basketball fans expect and tolerate some hanky-panky.’

‘I never suspected that in little more than a decade after helping to launch such a promising variant of American conservatism, Commentary would do so much to kill it off.’

Hey hipsters – this is Sarah Palin’s America!

‘Many editors say they use a pool of reviewers they know, but also like to bring in new names to mix things up. There a conflict can result.’

Retrospective hunt for the dodgy can be misguided

‘With a circulation of more than 25 million, The Watchtower is the most widely distributed magazine in the world’

“I’m sorry,” Peggy says indignantly, “but Playboy is not irrelevant.”

Eric Hobsbawn: My Years as a Jazz Reporter

Orwell – first resort for people who don’t know what they’re talking about

, Reporter

‘Luce in his prime was a giant, venerated and despised with a passion accorded to few of his contemporaries…’

‘No sooner had a genre called verbatim drama been identified than sceptics appeared arguing that it was somehow unacceptable to copy dialogue down, rather than to make it up’

Why Glen Beck comforts liberals