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Weasel words and bogus trend stories

By Julie Starr | Published: September 23, 2010
I enjoyed this piece on @Poynter about Slate’s Jack Shafer bagging journalists for writing bogus trend stories. …anecdotal evidence is hardly ever sufficient. Just ask Shafer, a media critic at Slate who has spent the past eight years writing about bogus trend stories. As often as a few times a month, he questions the validity [...]
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Link wrap: TBD, maps, saying no to Knight

By Julie Starr | Published: August 17, 2010
My browser is close to exploding under the weight of so many open tabs so I’m in tab-clearing mode this morning. Here’s a link wrap of things that lodged in my brain for one reason or another recently. TBD Mathew Ingram does a nice round-up on two US local-news-and-blog-network initiatives, TBD and GrowthSpur. TBD.com, which [...]
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