Number 61 » journalism http://number61.net by Matthew Gipp Mon, 07 May 2012 14:04:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Twilight of the American Newspaper http://number61.net/2009/12/twilight-of-the-american-newspaper http://number61.net/2009/12/twilight-of-the-american-newspaper#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:35:55 +0000 Matthew Gipp http://number61.net/?p=4238 An elegaic essay by Richard Rodriguez:

In the growling gray light (San Francisco still has foghorns), I collect the San Francisco Chronicle from the wet steps. I am so lonely I must subscribe to three papers—the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle. I remark their thinness as I climb the stairs. The three together equal what I remember.

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Cute. The Print After Party, by Jason Eppink and Posterchild.

]]> http://number61.net/2009/11/gallows-humor/feed 0 Mark Bowden on Hatchet Jobbing http://number61.net/2009/09/mark-bowden-on-hatchet-jobbing http://number61.net/2009/09/mark-bowden-on-hatchet-jobbing#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:12:26 +0000 Matthew Gipp http://number61.net/?p=1714 consultants - people 'whose goal is not to educate, but to win.' So says The Atlantic's Mark Bowden.]]> The deflation of professional journalism has, among many other things, resulted in a sharp increase in airtime for hatchet-jobbers (i.e. consultants – people ‘whose goal is not to educate, but to win.’

So says The Atlantic’s Mark Bowden.

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