Yesterday’s post about the resignation of an MIT dean for lying on her résumé elicited a torrent of comments. So today, when another high-profile female dean stopped by our offices, I asked what she thought about the whole mess.
First, an introduction. Linda Livingstone is dean of Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business …
What is one to make of the news that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. wants to buy Dow Jones? A decade or two ago everybody would have called it a travesty, of course. But lately Murdoch has come to look like the media titan with by far the longest view. He certainly shouldn’t be expected to go in and tear apart the company or its crown …
Going by Barry Ritholtz’s theory that magazine covers are a contrary indicator, I predict that Time‘s current cover on Jamestown means there won’t be any more major Jamestown commemorations for, say, a century.
In case you were wondering, this observation is (1) a dodgy excuse to get in my second post of the day, because The Man wants …
A former soccer teammate of mine had this to say about my posts a couple of weeks back about the constancy of the tax burden over the past half century or so. (The federal tax burden is around 18.5% of GDP, which is about the average for the post-war era, while the combined federal, state and local burden is 28.8%, a couple of percentage …
I was surprised but not stunned to read the headlines last week: “MIT dean resigns over misrepresented credentials.” Every few months, it seems, we’re treated to another gotcha of a high-powered person fabricating their résumés. To be frank, I was even a little relieved to see higher-education news that didn’t have to do with the …
So Australia won the big match Saturday against Sri Lanka, 281 runs to 215.
I mention this mainly because it provides another opportunity to share with you the the florid and often incomprehensible brilliance that is cricket journalism. Here’s the especially florid and brilliant Rahul Bhattacharya summing things up at Cricinfo.com:
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I might have been a quota hire. And if I was, I’m glad.
It was 1997. I was working as an editor at a trade magazine and attending journalism school at night when I got an out-of-the-blue call from another magazine here at Time Inc. The managing editor of that publication had pulled out a freelance article I’d written for The New York …
I’m generally sympathetic to Chris Anderson’s argument that the Internet should shift the focus of the media business away from the fat head of blockbusters and toward the long tail of niche content. But it sure ain’t happening yet in music sales. From today’s W$J:
Thanks largely to aggressive pricing and advertising, big-box chains are
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As this blog’s focus increasingly shifts to matters Australian, I figured I should check out the homepage of The Australian to see what’s up down there. There I learned that the cricket World Cup final is tomorrow (well, the people at The Australian think it’s “tonight”; they would, wouldn’t they). I’d totally stopped paying attention to …
There are a few commenters over at Swampland who, at the slightest provocation, bring up Time‘s Ann Coulter cover story of two years ago as evidence of the perfidy of this here media enterprise. I tend to think that this is nonsense, and that John Cloud did a pretty great job of portraying the staged nature of the rival media enterprise …
I just got around to reading Ezra Klein‘s Health of Nations article in The American Prospect. It’s a wonderfully clear description of how the health care systems of Canada, France, Germany and our own Veterans’ Administration work (Ezra’s verdict: better than the private U.S. system).
It’s fine work, marred only by Ezra’s egregious …
I just finished reading this stunning piece by Los Angeles Times sportwriter Mike Penner. It begins:
During my 23 years with The Times’ sports department, I have held a wide variety of roles and titles. Tennis writer. Angels beat reporter. Olympics writer. Essayist. Sports media critic. NFL columnist. Recent keeper of the Morning
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