The Project for Excellence in Journalism has published the index of talk radio’s content for the week of March 31 to April 6, 2008…and it’s a doozy: The data are staggering, especially when compared to the also-skewed (but not quite so egregiously) general-news index for the same week: 1. 2008 Campaign – 32% 2. U.S. […]
Pop quiz! Match the headline to the news outlet that produced it: 1. Security concerns high as Olympic torch arrives in San Francisco after chaos in Paris relay 2. San Francisco Protests, Vigil Surround Olympic Torch Relay 3. 3 layers of cops to protect torch 4. Security Tightened As San Francisco Girds for Protests Along […]
Oh, the comma-dy. Here, what has to be one of The New York Times’s best corrections of the of the year, courtesy of Andrew Sullivan: An article in some editions on Monday about a New York City Transit employee’s deft use of the semicolon in a public service placard was less deft in its punctuation […]
Let’s say you’re an illustrious newspaper, and your rival has just won a landslide of Pulitzers (six, to be exact, the second most any newspaper has won in a year—ever). Let’s say you’ve also had some (but more modest) Pulitzer success: you’ve rung in at a more-than-respectable two. And let’s say you publish a story […]
