Paul Krugman is right to condemn journalism’s ‘weasel words’ about Hillary Clinton. The hardest subjects require the most exacting press standardsSometimes journalists can’t live by a hand-me-down codebook. They themselves are responsible for what’s published. They live, after all, in the society they chronicle. They are part of that society. And two vivid new examples make the point.One comes from the Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, addressing various tales of influence-peddling in Hillary Clinton’s foundation hinterland when she was secretary of state. “As reporters like to say, the sheer size of the [Clinton] foundation ‘raises questions’. But nobody seems willing to accept the answers to those questions, which are, very clearly, ‘no’.” Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2016-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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No matter how the House of Representatives' inquiry into President Trump plays out, FX hopes that "impeachment" is still a big buzzword exactly one year from today. That's when the third season of American Crime Story--titled, that's right, Impeachment--is set to debut. But Season 3 of Ryan... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-09-27 10:30:50 UTC ]
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Amid cultural, social, and political unrest, including most recently the Trump impeachment inquiry, founder of the faith-in-action organization Sojourners Jim Wallis aims to reassert Christian values in his new book, ‘Christ in Crisis.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Cairo-born, London-raised journalist Alya Mooro talks to us about her first book The Greater Freedom, in which she examines life as a Middle Eastern woman outside the stereotypes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-23 14:36:25 UTC ]
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Dive into these 15 LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE book club questions for a lively group discussion that will stay with you for days. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-09-23 10:34:41 UTC ]
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Coronet has commissioned a collection of love letters to Europe from contributors including JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman and Pete Townshend, to be published on Brexit deadline day. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-22 14:13:22 UTC ]
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Paul Abbassi, formerly known as the "Data Guy", is the second keynote speaker to be announced for FutureBook Live 2019, The Bookseller’s annual publishing conference. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-16 17:02:07 UTC ]
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Indie press Galley Beggar has warned of the impact a no-deal Brexit could have on publishing after learning of "crazy" government requirements on distribution, saying it could put smaller publishers out of business. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-16 11:58:39 UTC ]
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Award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave talks to us about her reimagining of Dracula, The Deathless Girls. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-13 13:55:19 UTC ]
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More than any of the contemporary so-called Brexit novels, it’s ‘The Ice Age,’ a book written more than forty years ago, that offers the most haunting portrait of our current era of unrest. Continue reading at The Paris Review
[ The Paris Review | 2019-09-12 17:14:06 UTC ]
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Shockwaves rippled across the book industry last Wednesday after Amazon sent customers a copy of The Testaments almost a week early, which it later apologised for and attributed to "technical error". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-12 13:11:07 UTC ]
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In his poignant and strikingly insightful novel of 1956, The Lonely Londoners, Samuel Selvon shapes his narrative through the eyes of Caribbean migrants (now commonly referred to as the Windrush generation) upon their arrival to London post-World War II. His Trinidadian characters, having been... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-09-12 11:00:55 UTC ]
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Ian McEwan is releasing a new novella at the end of this month, a “biting political satire” on Brexit about a man’s metamorphosis into the Prime Minister, hellbent on carrying out the will of the people. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-12 00:26:24 UTC ]
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In a country that has suffered so much, it turns out to be the women in this novel who suffer the most. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-09-11 22:29:40 UTC ]
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Donald Trump’s Alabama psychodrama is still going on. Previous scenes featured the president of the United States erroneously warning that the state was in the path of a deadly hurricane; doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down on his error; defacing an official weather map with a Sharpie to... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-09-10 12:07:25 UTC ]
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Brexit, environmental issues and Christmas trading are looming large in independent booksellers’ minds ahead of the annual Booksellers Association conference, which kicks off in Birmingham on Sunday. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-06 07:34:02 UTC ]
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The former White House press secretary will chronicle her time in the Trump administration in a memoir expected to come out next year. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2019-09-05 17:47:28 UTC ]
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There is much to be said of importance for literary culture in general and black American literature in particular when we reflect on the life of the late novelist Paule Marshall. I will discuss all this, but I’d like to begin with an anecdote about my only encounter with this grand lady. On... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-09-05 08:47:45 UTC ]
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U.K. media companies from the Financial Times to The Guardian have reported growth in the last year, amid the boom of the Brexit-related news Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-09-04 16:35:32 UTC ]
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Jemma Neville talks about her non-fiction debut, which explores real-life stories from one street in Edinburgh and reveals ideas, hopes and fears about today’s constitutional crisis. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-03 18:53:03 UTC ]
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An August 12 letter, signed by three senators raised concerns that the data harvested and maintained by digital educational publishers today “could pose a serious risk to students, parents, and educational institutions" if "stolen, collected, or sold without their permission or knowledge.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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