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Yellow Journalism

More than six years ago, in the fall of 1995, Ruth Shalit wrote a 13,000-word piece for The New Republic entitled “Race in the Newsroom—The Washington Post in Black and White.” The piece, written before the feisty scribe was drummed out of TNR for a laundry list of journalistic sins, set out to document “the […]