There are nearly three hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States: a hundred and six million handguns, a hundred and five million rifles, and eighty-three million shotguns. That works out to about one gun for every American.
— Jill Lepore, The New Yorker.
For the record, I don’t [...]
He dresses every day in a jacket and tie and reports to a 22nd-floor office in a nondescript building near Columbus Circle, where his neighbors are lawyers or investment firms. His office looks as if it belongs to the kind of C.P.A. who still uses ledgers and a hand-cranked adding machine. There are an old [...]
I didn’t see the BNN alert until about 2 p.m., after the fires had been burning a while. I was in Jersey City when it happened, so I had to rush down Routes 1 & 9, over to Route 3 and up Route 17 to get to Carlstadt where the flames [...]
You’ve got to read and understand the cultural forces that journalism comes from, the great traditions that it partakes of, the political and social philosophy and, at the center, good writing.
— Howard Ziff, journalist and professor emeritus
of the UMass journalism department
We’re here tonight to bring you the news with a beat, with a beat, with a beat! We’re here to send you home with your feet hurtin’ and your back hurtin’ and your sexual organs stimulated! It says that right on the ticket, right on the ticket it says those very words somewhere.
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