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Freedom of Speech," by David K. Shipler. New York Times, May 5, 2015 Book Reviews. Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword. By David K. Shipler. 336 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $28.95. Free speech martyrdom ain't what it used to be in these United States. Still, there's trouble in paradise, the former New York Times. Reporter David K. Shipler finds in Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword. Prompts a minor moral panic after it is assigned to Advanced Placement English students. Toni Morrison's Beloved.
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Matt Bai’s ‘All the Truth Is Out,’ About Gary Hart. New York Times, Oct. 31, 2014 Book Reviews. All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid. By Matt Bai. 263 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95. This whole business of '87 is flypaper to me," Gary Hart said. "I want to get unstuck.". Hart seems resigned to his status. Otherwise he probably wouldn't have cooperated with Matt Bai, a former New York Times Magazine. Bai, who collected Hart's flypaper complaint for a 2003 Times. Profile, concedes that Hart di...
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Reuters, Nov. 3, 2011 Columns. As a man of habit, I resist all change, especially the change that's forced on me. So this week I got steamed when one of the tools I rely on to do my work and nourish my brain, Google Reader, got a complete makeover and was pushed onto me whether I wanted it or not. My Romenesko verdict: no harm, no foul. Nov 11, 2011. Who gets to be anonymous? Nov 9, 2011. Nov 3, 2011. The Rise of the Right to Know. Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword. May 5, 2015. Oct 31, 2014.
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Jack Shafer
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Freedom of Speech," by David K. Shipler. New York Times, May 5, 2015 Book Reviews. Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword. By David K. Shipler. 336 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $28.95. Free speech martyrdom ain't what it used to be in these United States. Still, there's trouble in paradise, the former New York Times. Reporter David K. Shipler finds in Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword. Prompts a minor moral panic after it is assigned to Advanced Placement English students. Toni Morrison's Beloved.
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Live and Let Leak: State Secret in the Snowden Era. Foreign Policy, March/April 2014 Book Reviews. Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy. By Rahul Sagar. 304 pp. Princeton University Press. $35. In his new book, Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy. Sagar asks, when is it legitimate for an official to disclose secrets? The Snowden affair happened too late for Sagar to include it in. As James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, reiterated. From publishing an article that d...
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Written in Blood: A Chronicle of the War-Correspondent Trade Makes for a Garbled Dispatch. Bookforum, June/July/Aug 2014 Book Reviews. Hell Before Breakfast: America's First War Correspondents Making History and Headlines, from the Battlefields of the Civil War to the Far Reaches of the Ottoman Empire. By Robert H. Patton. 368 pp. Pantheon. $28.95. But to paraphrase Donald H. Rumsfeld, you review the book you've been assigned to review, not the book you wish the author had written- and certainly not ...
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The Tripster in Wolfe's Clothing:. Reconsidering The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2006 Magazine Work. Tom Wolfe writes himself into the second sentence of his book about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters,. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Their now famous Day-Gloed 1939 International Harvester school bus, down to Mexico, where Kesey skedaddled to escape prosecution for possession of marijuana, and back to San Francisco. The immediacy is an illusion, because as eve...
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My Romenesko verdict: no harm, no foul. Reuters, Nov. 11, 2011 Columns. Media columnist Jim Romenesko- who was scheduled to depart his full-time position at the Poynter Institute at the end of the year, anyway- vacated it abruptly yesterday after his boss, Julie Moos, publicly criticized his "incomplete" methods of attributing other journalists' copy in his summaries of their work. My Romenesko verdict: no harm, no foul. Nov 11, 2011. Who gets to be anonymous? Nov 9, 2011. Nov 3, 2011. May 5, 2015. The S...
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Jack Shafer
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My Romenesko verdict: no harm, no foul. Reuters, Nov. 11, 2011 Columns. Media columnist Jim Romenesko- who was scheduled to depart his full-time position at the Poynter Institute at the end of the year, anyway- vacated it abruptly yesterday after his boss, Julie Moos, publicly criticized his "incomplete" methods of attributing other journalists' copy in his summaries of their work. My Romenesko verdict: no harm, no foul. Nov 11, 2011. Who gets to be anonymous? Nov 9, 2011. Nov 3, 2011. May 5, 2015. The S...
