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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Anna Breslaw

1. July 24, 2012 03:50 PM

   Are journalists being too harsh to Tablet?

   The Jewish online magazine made a mistake. Should that overshadow everything else it's accomplished?

   By Sara Morrison

   In the TV series Breaking Bad, a science teacher’s terminal cancer diagnosis prompts him to cook meth to make as much money for his family as possible before he dies. Twisted logic, but it makes more sense than the idea of a Jewish online magazine publishing a commentary about that show that spends three paragraphs relating it to the author’s...

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2. July 20, 2012 05:02 PM

   On that piece in Tablet

   It was selfish writing that needlessly caused pain to others

   By Kira Goldenberg

   When Nora Ephron succumbed to cancer late last month, many remembrances noted the writer’s embrace of her mother’s assertion that “everything is copy.” Indeed, Ephron wrote a close-to-real-life novel about her divorce from Carl Bernstein, personal essays about topics ranging from breast size to aging, and movies that masterfully evoke the flavor of life on the Upper West Side, which...

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