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NEWS ABOUT: Jack Shafer

Jack Shafer stories: 4 news summaries
OPINION

 Radio Was Gonna 
 Kill Newspapers, Too 


Aug 4, 09 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - As newspapers hemorrhage cash, the refrain is getting louder: the Web is sucking away their audiences and can never replicate the serious journalism they offer. The argument sounds familiar, Jack Shafer writes for Slate: It’s the one newspapers used against radio 80 years ago. Radio was then seen as... More »

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radio • Internet • newspaper • online news • media coverage • print journalism • Jack Shafer • newspaper industry

OPINION

He's the King of Teflon,
But Will It Last?

General-election voters want answers, not just a clean suit

Jul 30, 08 7:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has admitted that all politicians have a “reptilian side,” but the candidate’s slipperiness is so well-cloaked by his affable persona that he must be the “koala of iguanas,” Jack Shafer writes for Slate. Nothing sticks to Obama in part because he has anticipated... More »

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Barack Obama • press • Election 2008 • political criticism • Jack Shafer • politician

GLOSSIES

 'Ferocious Kind of Love' 
 Behind Times-Bashing 

Hating the Gray Lady, VF finds, often mirrors how one feels about relatives

Jul 16, 08 3:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - It seems these days everyone’s got a beef with the New York Times these days, so Vanity Fair set out to find out why, asking a panel of experts their thoughts. Simple envy is the primary culprit, some say; others cite "a ferocious kind of love"; the paper's... More »

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newspaper • New York Times • media criticism • Jack Shafer • Michael Wolff • Jonah Goldberg

OPINION

Murdoch's Journal
 Wins Back a Fan 

Slate critic once thought Murdoch would kill storied paper

Jun 15, 08 8:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch's attempt to make the Wall Street Journal the "first read" for elites, rather than playing second to the New York Times on non-financial stories, looked like a recipe for disaster to Jack Shafer. It was likely to result in me-too coverage crowding out the Journal's signature reporting,... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • journalism • Jack Shafer • enterprise reporting

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