Shut Up, Canice
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The other kind of newspaper war
John Doyle wrote a great column about the reality of newsrooms today, focusing on MTV’s surprisingly not-vapid reality series The Paper, about an award-winning, ego-driven high school newspaper. You can read it here, if you’re one of the poor suckers that actually bought a Globe Insider subscription. (I’ve attached it behind the cut for the…
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Favourite things…
Finding two Shreddies still stuck together side by side, uncut, in your box of cereal. They’re made to be with each other! (Also, can I talk about how much I love the “Diamond Shreddies” ad campaign for this deliciously waffled whole wheat delight? An intern came up with the whole concept. Sometimes I think about…
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Proof that advice columnists can be journalists too.
Here. As compelling a read as anything by Gay Talese or Amy Waldman or David Friend. Who says sex columnists don’t have any depth?
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Another one to add to The Rob Ford Files…
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Fuck you, j-school
It’s Saturday night. As I mentioned in a previous post, I was supposed to put the Review to bed yesterday — which I guess technically we did, but since the role of editor is to take care of all the niggly leftovers, here I am in the lab again reading proofs and agonizing over the…
Got any book recommendations?