At a publication like The Atlantic, a writer earns the right to occupy editorial space through merit, not a sheaf of twenties slipped to the editor. Wired Science blogger David Dobbs explains why The Atlantic’s sale of editorial space to the Church of Scientology is a blow to the publication’s credibility.
Continue reading →A recent twitter exchange between Tim Carmody, Alexis Madrigal, Alison Arieff, and Brendan Koerner drew my attention to this nice Snarkmarket post from Carmody on digging up material from offline, which Carmody calls paleoblogging: Two weeks ago I praised Harper’s Scott Horton, who in addition to tiptop legal/political commentary regularly serves up poignant and relevant chunks […]
Continue reading →If you’re looking for good reading, you can find plenty — including some stellar science pieces — in Conor Friedersdorf’s post of Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism at the Atlantic. Here is my short list taken from his long one. Italicized comments are mine. Last Days Of The Comanches by S.C. Gwynne | Texas Monthly […]
Continue reading →From Paul Ford of ftrain: I sometimes chat with people in the book- and magazine-publishing industries. They complain to me about the web. They worry about what is being lost. They can sound like this bookseller in Buffalo, New York: Books are not product. Books are creative endeavors as individual and singular as any work of art. […]
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