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Can Journalism Be Saved?

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Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture

At the core of this is a debate on whether The New York Times, The Washington Post and others are failing the American people by pushing more content behind the paywall.

Jarrod Dicker • Don’t Blame Media’s Business Model

Rawls explicitly rejected “welfare state capitalism,” arguing that we cannot create a fair economy through redistribution alone. As we have seen, the difference principle is concerned not just with income and wealth, but with inequalities of economic power and control and of opportunities for self-respect; and this broad perspective, in turn,

Daniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

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"In order to assess the desirability of alternative futures, futurists must study, evaluate, and apply human goals and values. They must concern themselves with the nature of the good society and with the standards of judgement and evaluation that they use." - Wendell... See more

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Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture

he fundamental work of journalism — holding powerful people accountable, connecting dots others miss, building trust with sources, and telling important stories — remains as vital as ever. The business model is broken, the incentive structure is perverse, and powerful people are getting better at fighting back. But the journalists doing this work... See more

The State of Journalism, According to Some of the People Actually Doing It

becoming a matutinal rite as inevitable as coffee and orange juice. When the New York World—famous for its liberalism and the wit of its columnists—had ceased publication in February, 1931, Lippmann, its editor, had gone over to the Herald Tribune and to sudden national fame. Clear, cool, and orderly in his thinking, he seemed to be able to reduce

Frederick Lewis Allen • Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

This Bill Maher monologue is a centrist's dream. And he's right: The Democrats would win "from now and until forever" if they jettisoned woke insanities and stuck to nuts and bolts issues that appeal to middle-class voters. https://t.co/ck8Bf0uhSg

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