Tom Scocca
Most Recently: Nine Red Herrings Or Otherwise Extraneous Facts From 'Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective'
Nine Red Herrings Or Otherwise Extraneous Facts From 'Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective'
• "[H]e went home and asked his mother for a big piece of cardboard. She gave him a dress box from the Bon Ton Store, which she had been saving." READ MORE
Mouthfeel: "Everybody's Nuts" Fraud Nuts Are Disgusting, Fraudulent
These Everybody's Nuts brand pistachios were on sale at the Giant, right by the regular pistachios, and I was feeling cheap and in a hurry so I bought them. They are terrible. READ MORE
James Frey's Introduction to "Reality Matters"
Choire Sicha: I have just received in the mail the galley of an anthology, released today, about reality television, which is called "Reality Matters" and which has a foreword by James Frey. READ MORE
Pulitzers, Babies and WaPo Headlines
Tom Scocca: "It once did not matter if editors had all of their facts straight at the morning news meeting; there was plenty of time for reporting and editing. But with the world looking over their shoulders, things are different. Editors are dressing better, speaking in complete, sound-bite sentences, and mistakes are embarrassing." READ MORE
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Paid Me
Tom Scocca: Now I am going to tell you about my dream. READ MORE
Tiger Woods at the Masters Bigger Than Iraq Invasion and American Christmas
Tom Scocca: What is a "media event"? READ MORE
Sally Quinn, Disinvited
[CORRECTION APPENDED: Due to a totally reasonable inability to keep all of the Bradlee divorces straight, we did indeed get one of the Bradlee divorces slightly confused! A correction is inserted; a handy family tree of the Bradlee family will surely be published at a later date.] READ MORE
A Scrutiny Draws A Quick Rise
Tom Scocca: I wish the Times did have the composure and self-assurance it pretends to have. READ MORE
Everyone Thinks He's Jill Abramson Now
Tom: "Even with requisite journalistic care (including round-robin meetings with editors), it would seem that a [David] Paterson story should have been ready to be printed by Friday morning, especially since any yet-to-be confirmed charges against the governor could always run in a later article. Instead, the Times has yet to publish. While there may be extenuating factors, we have reached the point when the Times' care at being journalistically responsible has become irresponsible." READ MORE
Words!
"Fuck!" the kid said, from the back seat of the car. They pick these things up from everywhere, the two-and-a-half-year-old children do. The child is like a runaway threshing machine rattling across the landscape of language, ingesting and scattering everything in its path: grain, chaff, string beans, feed buckets, chopped-up bits of mailboxes. How much of what your child says is understandable? the developmental survey form asks. You mean articulate? Or comprehensible? "The greens are taking care of the eights," he says. Or: "Welcome to Metro." Or: "I want a toaster in my ear." READ MORE
