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Malcom Gladwell was on precious radio program This American Life recently, telling some stories of his earliest days of "real" journalism at the Washington Post. He apparently had a bet with a colleague to determine which of them could be the first to insert a couple amusing phrases into the venerable paper. First was "new and troubling questions," which is surely already a journalistic cliche. Following that was the more amusing "perverse and often baffling"—a harder fit, but Gladwell managed it. Of course, Gladwell, easily one of the most charming one-trick ponies in media, has been dining out on this story for a dozen years. Despite that, it upset Jossip very very much, as it raises new and troubling questions about the state of respectable journalism. Audio clip attached.
Malcolm Gladwell's Newspaper Daze
Malcom Gladwell was on precious radio program
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3:31 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Pareene
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how about these phrases in ur daily newz
> we are surely doomed
> could things get any worse
> george bush is a miserable failure
lmk kthxbai
Wow...so print journalists steal pranks from Vermont state troopers?
@weazel: Hah!
Oh, Malcolm. By this point, that's an anecdon't.
Um...but Malcolm Gladwell's life is that of a Canadian, is it not?
Tends to confirm the origins of Gladwell's too-glib-by-half writing: contempt for the reader.
More Arthur Jones graphix, plz!
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