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Jack Shafer
Jack Shafer was Slate's editor at large. You can follow him on Twitter or email him at Shafer.Reuters@gmail.com.
Articles By Jack Shafer
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How Anonymous Sources Are Like Whitey Bulger
You can never be sure they're telling you the truth.
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Who Is Jose Antonio Vargas?
A prominent journalist comes out as an illegal immigrant, raising additional questions about his real identity.
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The Dope on Synthetic Pot
Bloomberg BusinessWeek files a dandy drug-capitalism story.
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Outrageous! Unethical! Sometimes Criminal!
Can anyone—or anything—stop the British tabloids from misbehaving?
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The $15,000 Interview
So what if NBC News and other outlets pay their sources? There are journalistic problems with unpaid sources, too.
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"I Would Have Loved To Piss on Your Shoes," Part 2
More F.U. gestures directed at bosses by journalists who were fired or resigned.
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Anthony Weiner's Semantic Satiation
The sexting doesn't bother me. The copious apologies on top of the pile of lies do.
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"I Would Have Loved To Piss on Your Shoes"
What Mark Schlueb and other fired or resigned journalists wrote to their bosses on the way out.
