Category Archives: criticism

in the Columbia Journalism Review

In the November/December issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, I look at Blur: How to Know What’s True In the Age of Information Overload by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel,…

What Malcolm Gladwell gets wrong about Free

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Chris Anderson’s Free in this week’s New Yorker — I wrote about the dust-up surrounding uncredited passages in the book and what the implications of Anderson’s error…

Mister Eric Bogosian

The first thing I learned upon meeting Eric Bogosian is that for years I have been mispronouncing his name (it is not boh-goh-zee-ann). Then I learned many other things, after…

Dear Tom: up yours. How’s that for personality?

At the online journalism review, Tom Grubitsch writes of Jacket Copy: But the blog, with its multiple authors, lacks personality. His other complaints I’ll leave alone, because I’m sure there…

the cheese stands alone

Back in web 1.0, I worked at a music industry dot-com that, at one point, was the #3 music site on the internet. We grew so fast that they tripled…

Wrestling the backlist

Mark has admitted a penchant for reading the previous work of an author when he’s assigned a review. I think this is a fairly common trait; I can’t imagine any…