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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. December 3, 2012 12:19 PM

   Hello to Symbolia

   New iPad-only comics journalism magazine launches today

   By Jessica Weisberg

   In the first issue of Symbolia, a publication that launches on the iPad today, you’ll find a dispatch from Iraqi Kurdistan, a profile of a Zambian psychedelic rock band, and an article about environmental devastation in California’s Salton Sea. All of these stories are told with comics. There are strip-style comics, like the ones you devoured growing up (or...

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3. July 30, 2012 02:45 PM

   Lehrer resigns from The New Yorker

   Tablet busts the writer for fabricating Bob Dylan quotes in his new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works

   By Curtis Brainard

   Science writer Jonah Lehrer has resigned as a staff writer for The New Yorker following revelations that he made up quotes and misquoted singer Bob Dylan in his book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, which was released in March. Monday afternoon, Tablet magazine published the results of an investigation by staff writer Michael C. Moynihan, a self-described "Dylan obsessive" who found...

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4. 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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