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Book Review Roundup

Posted 12.07.2009 | Books

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Your weekly book review roundup is back again: "Talking About Detective Fiction", P.D. James The New York Times ...[D]ispelling any doubts as to whe...

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Making Money In Yogaland

Lee Schneider | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living

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Lee Schneider

Yogaworks has opened a new studio in New York, at the corner of Broadway and Grand Street. It's got bamboo floors and showers with impressive pressure. The only thing missing? People.

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Turning to a New Generation to Solve the News Crisis

Alexander Heffner | Posted 04.25.2009 | Media

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Alexander Heffner

Rather than asking young people to pay -- an admittedly unrealistic proposition according to most of those who study journalistic trends -- let's seek their own engagement in news gathering.

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Initiating a Culture of Compensation

Rob Fishman | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media

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Rob Fishman

As a J-school student, I ask myself: is it crazy to pay for an education in a profession that refuses to charge for its services? Giving away news for free was a terrible folly. It's time now to move on and cough up.

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Journalism Does Not Need To Be Saved, Newspapers Do

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

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Henryk A. Kowalczyk

I see editorial writing in U.S. mainstream media, with a very few exceptions, as propaganda deprived of intellectual reflection. The public senses this as well, distrusts the media instinctively.

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Con Games: Time For Newspapers Is Past

Michael Conniff | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media

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Michael Conniff

Print publications in general don't have a direct relationship with the individual customer. They don't know who their readers are and they don't know what they want.

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TIME: Save Newspapers By Paying For Them

TIME | Walter Isaacson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

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During the past few months, the crisis in journalism has reached meltdown proportions. It is now possible to contemplate a time when some major cities...

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My Advice To John McCain -- Be John McCain

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republican Presidential Candidate, Mccain Aspen Institute, George Bush, Republican Primary, Karl Rove, John McCain, Barack Obama, Cindy McCain, Aspen Institute, Presidential Election, Steve Schmidt, Republican Party, Attack Ads, Walter Isaacson, Politics News
Larry Gellman

I moved to Tucson seven years ago and I have voted for and supported Senator John McCain since I became an Arizona resident. I got to hear and talk wi...

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Congress Should Travel More Not Less: Applauding the Aspen Institute

Steve Clemons | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

Let me play the contrarian here. We need as many members out seeing the world as possible -- and if they are at a forum debating political Islam...well, fantastic!

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