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John Thornton's diary of media and books, with semi-occasional original content
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The War We Can't Win

Nov 14, 2009
In Commonweal, Andrew Bacevich asks, essentially, “why not Mexico instead of Afghanistan?”    A thought-provoking companion piece to David Loyn’s In Afghanistan:  200 Years of British, Russian, and American Occupation.

Carr on T2

Nov 8, 2009
NYT media axe David Carr happened to be in the offices of The Texas Tribune when the terrible news broke in Ft. Hood.   His piece is up on the NYT site.

The Texas Tribune–(Short) Week #1

Nov 7, 2009
In my not-so-humble and entirely un-objective opinion, The Texas Tribune opened with one helluva week.  These are stories you simply will not see anywhere else.  Consider, in no particular order: Emily Ramshaw on the (over)use of passive restraints...

The Texas Tribune-Because Journalism Is a Public Good

Nov 4, 2009
In case you’ve had the good fortune to spend the Great Recession on a desert island, here’s a snippet from the Columbia Journalism Review that summarizes the media landscape to which you have returned: American journalism is at a transformational...

New Media and MSM Agree: Nobody Can Fund the Important Stuff

Nov 2, 2009
In a supposed debate between the old and the new, at least the following was concluded: Both sides agreed that good journalism, foreign reporting and freedom of the press should be preserved, but none could provide a way to fund the future of the...


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