Prodded by last week’s balloon boy hoax, media critic Jack Shafer cautions reporters against being too quick to relay the stories of alleged victims. In his Press Box blog on Slate.com — an article titled “Snookered by Victims. Cynical reporters and…
Jack Shafer, the often-irreverent media critic for Slate.com, offers some theories for why murders at Ivy League schools get so much press coverage. His column’s headline: “Murder Draped in Ivy. Why the press can’t get enough of Harvard or Yale…
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Media critic Jack Shafer has called out newspapers throughout the country — Bogus trend of the week: raising backyard chickens.
Shafer writes that newspapers keep reporting about an increasing number of people raising chickens in urban and suburban settings…
Slate.com’s Jack Shafer writes in his media column that the New York newspaper strike of 1962-63 might offer a glimpse of life without newspapers. Shafer writes:
I avoid making predictions, because very few of my predictions have ever come true. I…
Jack Shafer, media critic for Slate.com, says the newspaper industry has fumbled its online efforts — the latest example of the industry’s long clumsy dance with technology.
In a blog post this morning — “How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web.…
The press is making too much about an increase in gun sales since Barack Obama’s election victory, media critic Jack Shafer writes in his Press Box blog on Slate.com.
In an article titled “Crazy about guns: The press spooks its readers…
Jack Shafer’s latest “Press Box” column on Slate.com praises the Drudge Report.
The article, titled “Don’t count Drudge out. His demise is overreported once again,” chronicles Drudge’s “rise and fall” through the years — at least in the eyes of other print…
