Writings - Good Columns

That's how Erik-Lars Nelson, a former columnist for the New York Daily News, describes the Internet. He once wrote a wonderfully tart piece for the Shorenstein Centre at Harvard University. In it, the newspaper columnist (echoing the view of a lot of newspaper columnists, one suspects) made short work of the Net -- and, by extension, the "blogger" culture now pervading it. Wrote Nelson: "Any newspaper person who has logged onto an Internet news group will recognize many of th

WHO IS FAITH GOLDY? Good question. I remember her. She’s tallish, slouching near the doors at Sun News Network, chain-smoking. Smirking. “Troll with a tan,” someone at the erstwhile network said about her. Uncharitably, but not inaccurately. That indeed seemed to be the whole package: a suspiciously deep, orange-ish tan, and the sleeveless Fox News mien. That’s it. When she first appeared on Sun News, they’d hand her a microphone and tell her to go stand somewhere and pretend