journalism-essays
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TRUT: The Star, The Globe, and the Missing H in the New Veracity
I wrote this essay for Emigre 41, The Magazine Issue (1997). It also appeared in my 2003 book, Economics. In this essay, I coined the word, “trut”.
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Evidence of Ascension in America, Even When Only Half of Us Are Looking
I listen to Fox News on my Sirius XM radio while driving to and fro from Winfield. I consider it something of an intelligence-gathering mission from the fact-based world, the one where we seek out the truth and take steps to understand it. I also seek to understand the roughly half of my country that…
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The Dear Abby Model for Effective Newspaper Comments
Clearly, comments and community are an area in the newspaper business that are strong. Some form of community is going to be a big part of the new strength. I’d look to Dear Abby for a method for getting there. So: newspapers should employ full-time editors to manage comments and thread them into a cohesive…