Anyone seeking evidence of how media and politics have changed as a result of the internet need look no further than page one of today’s Times Picayune (Pdf version here). Although you may wish to hold your nose. L to …Read more…
I’m inclined to think the coverage of the fifth anniversary of Katrina was as respectful as it’s possible to be yesterday. When you have swarms of cameras descending on a place to ask its residents, precisely, how awful and painful …Read more…
“The Vietnam War veteran limped as he made his way down the metal stairway…” writes the New Hampshire Union Leader, covering McCain’s visit to Rochester. Which is about the best way of writing “he’s old old old old old,” that …Read more…
But when you run a brilliant cover like this, you shouldn’t explain it so damn fast—honestly, David Remnick. It’s like you’re growing soft, or something. “If people don’t get it, they’re idiots.” That’s what you should have said. Instead we …Read more…
Cue general bouts of being offended, and everybody writing about it. Including me. I’m an Obama supporter, and apart from some latent white privilege I still haven’t examined, I don’t think I’m a racist. Yet this slogan is funny. Not …Read more…
Matt Davis is mostly a writer, photographer, editor, publisher, entrepreneur and communications professional. In the renaissance tradition he occasionally also turns his hand to sewing, acting, poetry, filmmaking and so on. But when he dies, he would like to be judged solely on the quality of the relationships he enjoyed throughout the course of his life with other people. Because he feels, in the end, that those are the only point in being alive to do anything.
