Posts from ‘July, 2007’

The map at left comes courtesy of the Cato Institute, where Radley Balko has been looking into the increasing number of botched paramilitary-style police raids on private citizens. This presentation starkly shows how common this kind of thing has become — and, as Balko has testified before Congress, this data may only be the tip […]

LA Times: Mayor’s girlfriend is placed on leave. Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo placed newscaster Mirthala Salinas on paid leave Thursday while it carries out an investigation into whether she breached journalistic ethics by having a relationship with someone she covered: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Jack Shafer (Slate): After the staff cuts, will the newspapers of the future look like the newspapers from the past?

Our country, right and wrong.

The paper laid off 31 more people in the newsroom, cutting the staff to approximately half the size of the 2000 peak, just before the first Internet bubble burst. So many good people are gone, and many remain. But the ones who are left can’t sustain the same excellent journalism that we once took so […]

NY Times: Survey Finds Action on Information Requests Can Take Years. The Freedom of Information Act requires a federal agency to provide an initial response to a request within 20 days and to provide the documents in a timely manner. But the oldest pending request uncovered in a new survey of 87 agencies and departments […]

New York Times Magazine: All the News That’s Fit to Print Out. Nothing is easier than taking shots at Wikipedia, and its many mistakes (most often instances of deliberate vandalism) are schadenfreude’s most renewable resource. But given the chaotic way in which it works, the truly remarkable thing about Wikipedia as a news site is […]

Mark Glaser (PBS MediaShift): 10 Reasons There’s a Bright Future for Journalism.