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The editor of the Guardian talks about the complexity of current-day financial reporting, the incredible legal risk newspapers undertake in engaging in complex financial reporting and the absurdity of the British libel laws. Sobering, and another important data point on the difficulty and cost of doing excellent, difficult journalism
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Mitch Ratcliffe talks about how much really excellent journalism costs, and offers thoughts on how we might collectively pay for it. I find his cost equation more convincing than his proposed solution, but an excellent piece.
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Juan Cole remembers Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as an anti-imperialist as well as an enemy of racism, and hopes Obama honors that aspect of the great man's legacy. Extremely important history lesson on MLK day
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There are savage reviews, and then there's Matt Taibbi on Thomas Friedman. A vicious dissection of Friedman, the individual, before moving on to his ideas, beliefs, writing style and newfound environmentalism.
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Israel's mmigrant Absorption Ministry is recruiting an "army" of bilingual bloggers to explain Israel's positions and points of view on "anti-zionist" blogs. A major step forward in the visibility of citizen propaganda efforts.
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Lots of Obama's inner circle are third-culture kids, cosmopolitans and globalists. This is likely to have a positive influence on his foreign policy. As Obama said during the campaign: ""The benefit of my life of having both lived overseas and traveled overseas … is I have a better sense of how they're thinking and what their society is really like."
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Cooper-Hewitt exhibit of technologies designed for developing nations. Some lovely pieces here, though would be grateful for more engineering drawings and less art commentary…
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Daewoo leases roughly half the agricultural land in Madagascar to grow corn and palm oil. I continue to wonder – good thing or bad thing when wealthy nations are leasing African agricultural lands…
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About the Guardian's 1977 special section on San Serriffe, an invented – and highly humorous – island nation celebrating its independence from Britain
January 20th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Thanks for the link, Ethan. My proposed solution is intended to underscore the small numbers needed to support a reporters work. There are lots of ways to cover the expense, but if it did come down to $1 a month we’re talking about thousands of people, not mass audiences.