Journalism Archives - Kyle Matthew Oliver

Taco Town

May 3, 2008May 3, 2008 Kyle 1 Comment

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, back to work, but only because I don’t have a car to go driving in search of the best carnitas. Seriously, I love carnitas.

I also love “Taco Town.”

Update: Man, I’m having a bad couple of weeks w/r/t providing promised links. Should be fixed now above, or click here.

Local News of National Import

April 28, 2008April 28, 2008 Kyle 3 Comments

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 I’m part of the problem at work here.

We’ll miss you, Cap Times.

Five-Minute Posts: Sour Apples

March 23, 2008March 23, 2008 Kyle 2 Comments

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 about nuclear technology is, someone is bound to think it biased. I’ll probably post on this issue later–it poses interesting problems for journalists, as you’d expect.