In Praise of Insensitive Reporters
We'd hate them even more if they didn't overcover the VT story.
Thanks to Mark Feldstein, John Dickerson, Stephen Bates, Timothy Noah, and Josh Levin for their insights. Last line in the column adapted from a quip by Michael Kinsley. I don't really want to hear from you at slate.pressbox@gmail.com. (E-mail may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise. Permanent disclosure: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Co.)
Correction, April 17, 2007: This story originally misidentified Blacksburg as Blackburn. (Return to the corrected sentence.)
Oxford Town, Red Hook, and Every Other Place Bob Dylan’s Ever Sung About, Mapped
This Is a Blog Post. It Is Not a “Blog.”
Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off
Jack Shafer was Slate's editor at large. You can follow him on Twitter or email him at Shafer.Reuters@gmail.com.
Photograph of a Virginia Tech student on Slate's home page by Ted Richardson/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT.