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whether it was a Nazi collaborator serving as the paper’s Berlin bureau chief at the most sensitive moment in modern history, a communist propagandist helping to midwife American recognition of the Soviet Union, the creation of a jihadist boy-martyr almost out of thin air, the cover-up of radiation sickness resulting from the use of nuclear weapons
... See moreAshley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
But the shift inside the CDC that had begun with the Swine Flu Affair had led it to become a different sort of place. “Now I understood why the CDC was so admired,” said Charity. “It was because of people like him.” But Sencer had also exposed the price of bravery. After Sencer—or after Foege—the CDC’s relationship to disease control had changed in
... See moreMichael Lewis • The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
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Phil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
journalists and experts are the architects of much conventional wisdom.
Stephen J. Dubner • Freakonomics
Sulzberger’s employees and American journalists in general are similar. They’re the Stasi with a stock symbol, the original surveillance capitalists.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
I had spent the past 40 years as a journalist and ended my career believing as strongly as ever that reliable, unpolluted information is as necessary to a community as a legal system, an army or a police force.
Alan Rusbridger • Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
Andrei Lankov • REVIEW: The Real North Korea, by Andrei Lankov
he wrote that he hoped to hear about people’s experiences with this one specific sliver of the gun debate.
Charles Duhigg • Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
When the Dear Leader wanted you to lose more, he gave you more to lose.