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Wrestling the backlist
Mark has admitted a penchant for reading the previous work of an author when he’s assigned a review. I think this is a fairly common trait; I can’t imagine any reviewer is willfully uninformed. Me, I...
View Articlethe cheese stands alone
Back in web 1.0, I worked at a music industry dot-com that, at one point, was the #3 music site on the internet. We grew so fast that they tripled us up in our tiny offices in Encino. From the very day...
View ArticleDear Tom: up yours. How’s that for personality?
At the online journalism review, Tom Grubitsch writes of Jacket Copy: But the blog, with its multiple authors, lacks personality. His other complaints I’ll leave alone, because I’m sure there are those...
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Mister Eric Bogosian
The first thing I learned upon meeting Eric Bogosian is that for years I have been mispronouncing his name (it is not boh-goh-zee-ann). Then I learned many other things, after he said something like...
View ArticleWhat Malcolm Gladwell gets wrong about Free
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Chris Anderson’s Free in this week’s New Yorker — I wrote about the dust-up surrounding uncredited passages in the book and what the implications of Anderson’s error might be...
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In the November/December issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, I look at Blur: How to Know What’s True In the Age of Information Overload by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, two newspaper veterans....
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