Check this out from Jimmy Breslin in Newsday: “I am thinking that it could be time for me to begin thinking about leaving this news business. It is not mine anymore. Let me tell you why.“ A lot of people are writing to me today and saying: thank God for Jimmy Breslin. Amen. In my crowd, we’ve always […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson on his 200th birthday this spring is “closer to us than ever,” writes the great Harold Bloom. He is a man for bloggers to embrace most especially, not for Emerson’s glory but for our own understanding of a transformative moment we are living through. Poet, public intellectual, performance artist and […]
This is tragic. This is silly. This is nuts. The Howell Raines downfall turns on a mix-up (inside and out) of molehill and mountain. The media crisis in the country (and in its greatest print-era newspaper) has next-to-nothing to do with the sins of a pathetic little conman, Jayson Blair. It […]