Archive for category: Journalism

Journalism faculty unable to publish commencement address as HTML    (2011.05.23)

Columbia J-school couldn’t figure out how to publish Nate Silver’s commencement remarks as HTML. So I did it

Another article to remind you how famous General Idea was    (2011.05.22)

Instead of actually dissecting A.A. Bronson’s baseless “copyright” claims, the Toronto press runs yet another profile of the art supergroup that was always fabulous

Opposing the war/Supporting the troops    (2011.05.05)

The Ryerson Review of Journalism release party is just the peevish and niggardly kind of venue at which Toronto excels. Also: Levi Nicholson’s temper

How to pronounce Fukushima    (2011.03.14)

It isn’t fuu kuu SHEEE ma

The amorality of anonymous comments    (2011.03.10)

At some point, you’re going to have to snap out of your denial. Comments are a proven failure on news sites and are a minefield of personal harm everywhere

What happens when you try to interview a former reality-show contestant    (2011.03.08)

Some network apparatchik stops the subject from answering questions

Just how many ways are there to describe Rammstein?    (2011.03.06)

Claire Berlinski’s Times article on Rammstein was a warm-up act for her later book chapter on that topic. Also! She knows she’s a knockout

What keeps gay athletes in the closet? Journalists, for a start    (2011.03.04)

Straight reporters will do anything to keep us in the closet. They’re also the last to realize that, as a topic for journalists, “gays in sports” is over

This Week in Fagonomics (I)    (2011.03.02)

A recap of stories lazily reiterating the claim that gays are rich, which we aren’t.