Steve Wasserman on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/about/staff/25/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2008 2008-04-11T05:45:51+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Steve Wasserman on Fidel Castro http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080410_steve_wasserman_on_fidel_castro/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080410_steve_wasserman_on_fidel_castro/ book, castro, cuba, democracy, government, history, military, politics, religion, review, war, wasserman, Book Review What will history say about the implacable anti-imperialist and unrepentant revolutionary who has held power in Cuba for nearly 50 years? The publication of Fidel Castro’s and Ignacio Ramonet’s “My Life: A Spoken Autobiography” helps us understand the man and his myth.

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We got snookered. Motoko Rich of The New York Times reports in her article posted March 4 that the just-published “memoir” by Margaret B. Jones, called “Love and Consequences,” about Jones’ “life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods,” is a fabrication.

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]]> 2008-03-04T06:12:00+00:00 Goodbye to All That http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070907_goodbye_to_all_that/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070907_goodbye_to_all_that/ arts, book review, cjr, culture, literature, newspaper, publishing, wasserman, Although coverage of books in major newspapers may seem to have taken a precipitous downturn in recent months, this decline has been in the works for a while, says longtime writer, literary editor and book aficionado Steve Wasserman, who opines in this CJR article about the high costs of this lamentable cultural sea change.

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]]> 2007-09-07T21:41:00+00:00 Steve Wasserman: Requiem for an Editor http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061107_steve_wasserman_requiem_editor/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061107_steve_wasserman_requiem_editor/ baquet, Dean Baquet

A former Los Angeles Times editor fleshes out the motivations behind the unceremonious Nov. 7 forced resignation of the Times’ respected editor, Dean Baquet, above.

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]]> 2006-11-08T08:05:00+00:00 Chicago Agonistes: The Plight of the L.A. Times http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_death_of_newspapers/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_death_of_newspapers/ advances, blogosphere, circulation, demise, future, internet, journalistic, newspapers, technological, tribune, Under pressure from its Tribune Co. overseers, the paper will struggle to protect the journalistic excellence it took years to build.

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