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Hamilton Nolan · 03/17/11 11:06AMBob Woodward's Not Just Some Lazy Facebook Troll, Like You Kids
Hamilton Nolan · 03/16/11 02:05PMFour New York Times Staffers Missing in Libya
John Cook · 03/16/11 12:46PMThe Washington Post Has Achieved Perfect Fairness
Hamilton Nolan · 03/16/11 10:50AMMedia A-Listers Flock to Futuristic Hellscape
Hamilton Nolan · 03/15/11 01:32PMHere's a Washington Post Story With All the Editor's Notes In It
Hamilton Nolan · 03/15/11 09:02AMIf you spend more than five minutes talking to an editor, you're sure to hear about how some story or other was a total piece of shit before said editor got his hands on it. Now you can judge for yourself! The Washington Post mistakenly posted this health story by Laura Ungar online with ALL OF THE EDITOR'S ALL-CAPS NOTES INCLUDED. [The final version of the story hasn't been published yet.] We've pasted it below in case it gets pulled. Editors make typos, too! Kill them!
The New York Times' Columnist Problem
Hamilton Nolan · 03/14/11 03:40PMBill Keller, the editor of the world's most influential newspaper, may be losing his mind. He made the poor choice to start writing his own column, which promptly went to hell in its second week. He wrote a whiny, trite, un-self-aware media column, ensuring that most people wouldn't care, and those who cared would find his work embarrassing.