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Lessons to be learned from the miner debacle

My former news editor, the hon­or­able Fred Vultee has a great dis­cus­sion going about what you can, can’t, and def­i­nitely should put in a head­line about the status of trapped coal miners. I wasn’t paying ter­ri­bly much atten­tion to the story until the story became about the story — meta­jour­nal­ism? I couldn’t believe the shoddy sourc­ing the [...]

January 5, 2006 | Categories: Journalism

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Mail carrier N. Sorenson delivering Christmas mail through the snow. (Chicago Daily News/Chicago Historical Society)