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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Five Politics Daily staffers -- Carl Cannon, Melinda Henneberger, Walter Shapiro, David Wood and James Grady -- are joining in an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg about politics and the press as seen through the prism of his new book, "Beyond the Killing Fields." Here is Schanberg's response to David Wood, who lamented the shrinking of foreign news bureaus and asked Schanberg how the great tradition can be kept alive. With life on our planet spinning faster and faster on the electronic wings of the digital revolution, I have no ...
If you are reading this article, you are doing so online, as Politics Daily is a digital portal in our Digital Age. In other words, I'm no Luddite; in fact, I've bet my career that Politics Daily and other online publications are the future of journalism. Nonetheless, my Christmas wish is that in 2010 newspaper publishers will patch up their leaky hulls and right their ships. A great deal depends on it. Until yesterday, Saturday, December 19, 2009 was the last time a newspaper had appeared on my doorstep. After our recent snowstorm, Arlington, Va., where I live, couldn't manage to plow the ...
It's difficult to say which is more nauseating: The reliability of a career in the news industry today or riding an airplane through turbulence with a massive hangover. Either way, most will agree that the news business is in need of a rescue. Beyond divine intervention, here are a few possibilities, in no particular order, of who the hero -- or heroes -- might be. ...
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