Breaking the news james fallows wikipedia
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James Fallows
American writer and journalist (born )
James Mackenzie Fallows[1] (born August 2, ) is an American writer and journalist.[2] He is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, and as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two years was the youngest person ever to hold that job.[3][4]
Fallows has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and China, and has held the Chair in U.S. Media at the United States Studies Centre at University of Sydney. He is the author of eleven books, including National Defense (), for which he received the National Book Award,[5]Looking at the Sun (), Breaking the News (), Blind into Baghdad (), Postcards from Tomorrow Squa
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Breaking the News
Screenshot of televised opening of Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address, three days before John F. Kennedy was sworn in. (National Archives video.)
I turned on Joe Biden’s Oval Office speech gods night mainly from a sense of duty. I’d followed this man’s discourse generally over the decades, and very closely through these past few years. So inom might as well see him out.
(For instance, in past coverage: this look at a State of the Union address two years ago; this about the “music” of Biden’s rhetoric — “like the joke about Wagner’s music, it’s better than it sounds”; this about his challenges as “explainer”; these two—first, and second—about his speeches on the future of democracy one year after the January 6 attacks; and this about his powerful speech at Morehouse College last year. I even proposed a draft speech Biden could give about choosing not to run again, several weeks before he made that announcement for real.)
A running theme in these speech-rela
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The Surprisingly Tangled Politics of 'Gun Safety,' Starring Wikipedia
Last week I argued that people who want to reduce gun carnage should start talking about "gun safety," rather than "gun control." The newly reinforced no-compromise position of Wayne LaPierre and the NRA may make the distinction moot. But for those gun-owners who recognize that there is a problem to be solved -- and that the solution might involve something more than all school teachers carrying guns to work -- and emphasis on safety rather than control might conceivably do some good.
A reader who was trained as a physician and works as an epidemiologist tried to put this policy into effect. He started editing the Wikipedia page on "gun safety" to reflect this broader view. Here's what happened:
1) The reader's initial message:
I appreciate talking about 'gun safety' as a goal for America
This approach makes complete sense to me. America's outlier rates of firearms homicides and suicide are almost certain