Why the measured, slow, and wimpy response? Has the editorial board gone vegetarian ?
"Jack Shafer" writes about media for Politico. Prior to joining Politico, he worked for Reuters and also edited and wrote the column Press Box for Slate, an online magazine. Before his stay at Slate, Shafer edited two city weeklies, Washington City Paper and SF Weekly. Much of Shafer's writing focuses on what he sees as a lack of precision and rigor in reporting by the mainstream media, which he says "thinks its duty is to keep you cowering in fright." One frequent topic is media coverage of the War on Drugs.
More Jack Shafer on Wikipedia.It's very odd to look at. This is the duck-billed platypus of journalism, an egg-laying mammal with fur - it's just something very bizarre.
Nearly every rescued person, temporary resident of the Superdome, looter or loiterer on the high ground of the freeway I saw on TV was African-American. And from the look of it, they weren't wealthy residents of the Garden District. This storm appears to have hurt blacks more directly than whites, but the broadcasters scarcely mentioned that fact.
I also think that anyone in late years of college is anxious about their future, asking themselves, 'What do I want to do? Also, I think that we all live vicariously through children and these kind of trend stories are an expression of adult anxiety.
I think it is hard in the Internet era for a monthly magazine to keep current with ideas and events. They might be in the position the daily newspaper was in in 1958 when television came in.
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