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Jack Shafer

Jack Shafer: Concerned About My Bank Balance, and Knows My Inner Motivations. Where Have You Been All My Life?

John Thornton | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Jack Shafer, Funding Non-Profits, Texas Tribune, Newspapers, Clinton, Kennedy, New York Times, Washington Post, Future of Journalism, Slate, Media News
John Thornton

The forty years between Kennedy and Clinton were an accident of economic and demographic history, resulting in a temporary but highly profitable industry structure for the papers that dominated their markets.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: March 5, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Tax Plan, Jeff Bercovici, Jeff Gettleman, Jon Stewart, Suze Orman, The Daily Show, Jack Shafer, Rush Limbaugh, Evan Bayh, Video, Ari Fleischer, Barack Obama, New York Times, Media Criticism, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Robots, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Burning up my inbox today is news of this story from the Charlotte News and Observer, about an anti-gay marriage rally in Raleigh. It contains thes...

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Initiating a Culture of Compensation

Rob Fishman | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media

Read More: David Swensen, Saving Newspapers, Newspapers, The Future of News, How to Save Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Death of Newspapers, Jack Shafer, Michael Kinsley, David Carr, Walter Isaacson, Media News
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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Jack Shafer: New York Times Shouldn't Replace Bill Kristol

Slate Magazine | Jack Shafer | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Jack Shafer, Bill Kristol, Bill Kristol New York Times, Media News

Just because I think that the New York Times should leave vacant the opinion-columnist position just evacuated by William Kristol doesn't mean I think...

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Jason Linkins

David Gregory: Slate's Jack Shafer Has Good Advice

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Meet the Press, David Gregory, Jack Shafer, Slate, Tim Russert, Media News

I quite like most of the "unsolicited advice" that Jack Shafer, of Slate, has teed up for the benefit of incoming Meet The Press host David Gregory. ...

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The Denver Media Migraine

Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Denver Convention, USA Today, Chris Mattews, Bill Keller, Politico, New York Times, Washington Post, Ted Koppel, Jack Shafer, Keith Olbermann, Jill Abramson, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Fifteen thousand journalists in Denver and they couldn't even report what actually happened there. Instead, they invented a storyline of their liking....

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One Last Comment on "The Cover" ... and Humor

Jerry Weissman | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Maureen Dowd, Michelle Obama New Yorker Cover, Jon Stewart, Jack Benny, Aristophanes, Frank Schaeffer, Jack Shafer, Politics News
Jerry Weissman

After the torrential deluge of media and web commentary about the controversial New Yorker cover of Barack and Michelle Obama fist-bumping in Muslim a...

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