So, the original story goes something like this: girl buys laptop, laptop comes with (gasp!) Linux, Linux isn't compatible with her High-Speed Internet or her college classes. Girl drops out of the college.
The original article isn't great journalism …
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This is a brilliant op-ed / media criticism by Elizabeth Edwards for the New York Times. It's remarkably well-written, and I particularly like this quote:
Watching the campaign unfold, I saw how the press gravitated toward a narrative template for the …
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This strikes me as good news:
Columbia Journalism Review is proud to announce the launch of The Observatory, a full-time department dedicated to critiquing the press coverage of science and the environment.
I'm very eager to see what this produces.
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