by jpitney | Jan 21, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists
Margaret Sullivan at The Guardian: Paul Moore vividly remembers the Baltimore Sun in its heyday, not so long ago. “More than 400 newsroom staff, six foreign bureaus and a 12-person Washington bureau,” Moore recalled. He was the Sun’s deputy managing editor (and, for a...
by jpitney | Jan 20, 2024 | California Politics, Public Opinion, Uncategorized
.Taryn Luna at LAT: Half of California registered voters consider the state budget deficit an “extremely serious” problem, and 57% believe the state is headed in the wrong direction, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by...
by jpitney | Jan 19, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists
Meg James at LAT: Los Angeles Times newsroom guild leaders called for a one-day walkout Friday to protest planned cuts to offset steep financial losses that owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and his family have absorbed since acquiring the paper nearly six years ago....
by jpitney | Jan 19, 2024 | Crime
John McMillan at City Journal: When crime throws American cities into disarray—as has happened before and in some places is happening now—it is a bad look for the Left. Start with Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, one of the most influential scholarly books of...
by jpitney | Jan 17, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Congress
GOP Rep. Mike Lawler to hardliners amid latest funding battle. “You don’t have control of the Senate, you have to find compromise. And the failure on the part of some of my colleagues to recognize this and continually try to undermine the majority, it’s getting...
