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    When to call it quits?

    I think about my decision to leave newspapers a lot (obviously, since I still read sites like this, and CJR and Romensko, even though that has...
    Post by: J-School Blue, May 24, 2013 in forum: Journalism topics only
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    What do you make?

    Yeah, there's a vast difference between "recent grads whining about the reality of starting salaries" and "recent grads looking around a newsroom...
    Post by: J-School Blue, May 23, 2013 in forum: Journalism topics only
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    Writing test after applying for a job

    I've done a little technical writing (one short-term contract, and I interviewed for and was offered another contract job in that field that the...
    Post by: J-School Blue, May 21, 2013 in forum: Journalism topics only
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    Game of Thrones: Spoilers - just like Winter - are coming.

    I'm very frustrated with the Theon story, which seems pointlessly confusing. I didn't think they handled the burning of Winterfell particularly...
    Post by: J-School Blue, Apr 15, 2013 in forum: Anything goes
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    Yahoo CEO: No more working remote -- get to the office or quit

    I worked at a Too Big To Fail bank for a bit, and telecommuting was both common and a very formal part of the work policy. You had to submit for...
    Post by: J-School Blue, Feb 27, 2013 in forum: Sports and News
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    Lost: The Final Season (Premieres Feb. 2)

    Yes. I've also wondered how the show would've been shaped differently had David Fury stayed on board, but he left so early it's impossible to...
    Post by: J-School Blue, Jan 15, 2013 in forum: Anything goes
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    Lost: The Final Season (Premieres Feb. 2)

    I've also been watching it again since I read the Sepinwall book. I think what frustrates me is, there was a hole they had sort of dug themselves...
    Post by: J-School Blue, Jan 15, 2013 in forum: Anything goes
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    Jodie Foster

    I'm with those who're baffled that this is being characterized as a "coming out" speech. If anything, she took a several jabs at the idea of...
    Post by: J-School Blue, Jan 14, 2013 in forum: Sports and News
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    Fair or Foul -- Including a tangential celebrity connection to a crime?

    If she mentioned him on the show, or he popped up in one of those dumb clip packages they do, I think you have to address it. It's out there and...
    Post by: J-School Blue, Jan 4, 2013 in forum: Journalism topics only
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    Ethical? Interactive map of gun permit holders

    You can defend someone's right to be an asshole without actually thinking they should be an asshole.
    Post by: J-School Blue, Jan 2, 2013 in forum: Journalism topics only
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    Ethical? Interactive map of gun permit holders

    Meanwhile, a use of raw data on a similar-but-different part of this that I think is far more well-done. Slate's count of all the gun-related...
    Post by: J-School Blue, Dec 28, 2012 in forum: Journalism topics only
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    Ethical? Interactive map of gun permit holders

    My guess, which is only partially educated from a few years doing claims investigations, is that gun permits are as public as voter registration...
    Post by: J-School Blue, Dec 27, 2012 in forum: Journalism topics only
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    Ethical? Interactive map of gun permit holders

    Yeah, this is what bugs me. There's an interesting story to be made out of this data, but WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE GUN NEXT DOOR!!!!!!!! is...
    Post by: J-School Blue, Dec 27, 2012 in forum: Journalism topics only
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    HIMYM Season....um...what season is it?

    Fuck you, Jason Segel. http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/report-how-i-met-your-mother-to-run-forever-and-ever-and-ever I remember when...
    Post by: J-School Blue, Dec 22, 2012 in forum: Anything goes
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    Homeland (not the grocery store)

    I'm in the camp that feels like it went hardcore off the rails this year, mainly by burning through 2 seasons worth of plot in 1. I think Brody's...
    Post by: J-School Blue, Dec 17, 2012 in forum: Anything goes