Today’s must-reads are thinking about the costs of becoming a journalist:
- EPA moving forward on regulating greenhouse gases (MoJo)
- White House wants to weaken reporter shield law (NYT)
- The Democrats’ health care reform proposals are built around ideas Republicans used to favor (The American Prospect)
- Michael Moore’s new movie: If there’s no revolution, I quit (MoJo/David Corn)
- Comcast buying NBC from Sheinhardt Wig Company? (WaPo)
- Journalism no longer offers socioeconomic mobility (Working Class Studies)
- Annals of great punditry (MoJo/Kevin Drum)
- AThe Real Public Option: Congress’ Private Medical Clinic (MoJo)
- More promotional ideas for the Washington Post (Columbia Journalism Review)
- National Review‘s John Derbyshire argues women shouldn’t have the right to vote. Seriously. (ThinkProgress)
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