Kyle Matthew Oliver

Category: Journalism

  • Taco Town

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    This New York Times story about taco trucks in LA is just brilliant. A really carefully crafted feature story that’s funny but hits on some serious socio-economic issues as it builds momentum. Any article that contains the expression “taco-loving public” should be shooting up the most-emailed list. It’s currently at number 10, I noticed. OK,…

  • Local News of National Import

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    It’s weird when you get news about your community from a national news source. Sadly, that happened today to this Madison, WI resident: Reluctantly, a Daily Stops Its Presses, Living Online (New York Times) Was I the only one who hadn’t heard about this? I’m not a very good local news consumer, so I guess…

  • Five-Minute Posts: Sour Apples

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    This article from today’s New York Times is kinda interesting. I’m fairly Apple-neutral, but I enjoyed seeing the fanatics get called out a bit. We talked about something similar to “hostile media phenomenon” in the DOE weapons non-proliferation seminar I went to a couple of years ago at Mizzou. No matter how neutral an article…