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News never made money, and is unlikely to
By Jack Shafer Sometime in the mid-1990s, the Web began to peel from the daily American newspaper bundle its most commercial elements, essentially the editorial sections against which advertisements...
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Move over Bezos, ESPN can do news better than you
By Jack Shafer The pompous slogan, “The Worldwide Leader in Sports,” actually undersells ESPN’s ultimate potential. If the Bristol behemoth were a stand-alone company instead of a Walt Disney...
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All the myths that are fit to print: Why your news feels familiar
By Jack Shafer Has some wise guy flipped a switch and thrown the news into summer reruns? Everywhere you look in your news feed is a story you’ve seen before. In northern Iraq, conquering jihadists...
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If you must quote anonymous sources, make sure they say something!
By Jack Shafer A decade ago, both the Washington Post and the New York Times conceded that they had lost control of the use of anonymous sources in their pages and each set up new guidelines to police...
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