(This essay was originally an answer to a question posted on a journalism email list.)
I am tired of reporters who have studied journalism but have no clue about the subject matter they’re covering. Jay Rosen @ NYU has told me more than once that he likes to see journalism studied in conjunction with another discipline. [...]

This is not a joke. I tried to cancel online. No joy. I tried their “online chat” and got referred to a 404 page. Then I called the customer service number on the phone bill. Got cut off after going through a number of voice mail layers. Called again. Same thing. Started saying “human” and [...]

For most of us, layoffs in hard economic times are disasters. We lose our health insurance, often lose our homes to foreclosure, and spend most of our time frantically searching for a new job or freelance work. But hedge fund execs and other financiers (AKA “gamblers,” but with other people’s money) are so much wealthier [...]

Friedman’s idea, basically, is to help finance new and innovative business instead of propping up dinosaurs like the existing car companies. He says:
You want to spend $20 billion of taxpayer money creating jobs? Fine. Call up the top 20 venture capital firms in America, which are short of cash today because their partners — university [...]

Oh, how our Congressional Republicans hate that evil economic stimulus bill. Leave it to them, they’d cut taxes and do more of the same-old same-old that got us where we are today. Except apparently our Florida Republican “leaders” are happily going to use some of that evil stimulus money (that they all hate so much) [...]

We’re going to have a huge economic stimulus bill, full of wasteful items that may stimulate the economy and may not. Some of the funding baked into it — for infrastructure, research and education — will have long-term benefits for all of us. There’s a bunch of pander-level tax cuts tossed in, too, presumably [...]

Dear Senator Martinez:
I’m not 100% happy with the Democrat-backed stimulus bill, either, but just saying “no, no, no” to it is not going to help solve our country’s problems. Neither will more tax cuts and “fewer regulations” that benefit your greediest constituents, who have already gotten plenty of tax cuts and have been deregulated to [...]