A pet peeve of mine: stories that report someone has gotten in trouble for saying something insensitive — without saying what the comments were! Like this story on a Major League Baseball umpire who made an anti-Semitic remark. You have to go to another version of the story to find out what exactly he said.
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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