Shots in the Dark

This infographic is a couple of days old, but still….

And what about historians, like Harvard’s Niall Ferguson, who earns $50, 000 a pop?

In the Columbia Journalism Review, Paul Starobin looks at how journalists can be corrupted—just like economists.

I love this cover of the April/May Worth….

A Gawker writer tells the story of how, in trying to check the details of Mike Daisey’s anti-Apple blitzkrieg, Daisey lied to him—and when he now confronted Daisey with that, Daisey responds that the truth isn’t important.

Adrian, this isn’t about me lying to you or anyone else. This is about me doing everything I could to get the media to pay attention to an issue that had previously been ignored but that now, thank goodness, has been properly covered and verified. Did I go too far in that effort? Maybe. That’s for others to judge.

To which the Gawker writer appropriately responds:

OK. Let’s judge: Fuck you, Mike Daisey.

Fascinating to see how Daisey’s dissembling and self-rationalizations have progressed since he was first called to account by This American Life. (This transcript of the program is gripping reading.)

TAL: Why not just tell what really happened….?

Daisey: I think I was terrified….

But Daisey still won’t come out and admit that he’s a liar….

“My Harvard lectures on Prince will be a book that comes out later this year….”

—Toure, on Twitter.

The lectures, sponsored by the Du Bois Institute, include “Prince as Christ Figure“…

Dan Pink on “Why I Left Google.”

The Times on another pretend-journalist—monologist and Apple critic Mike Daisey—who lies (or, as Daisey calls it, “dramatic license”), then pretends it’s all in the name of truth. (I should have known that whole thing about the guy with the mangled hand who’d never even seen an iPad was too good to be true.)

Greg Smith’s exit from Goldman Sachs.

Jim Sleeper’s terrific write-up of the various issues involved in the Yale-in-Singapore project. (Thanks to Harry Lewis for pointing that out.) Particularly egregious is the conflict of interest several members of the Yale Corporation have.

Robert Frank on what’s really driving the soaring cost of college.

The news that Hannibal Gadhafi, the dead dictator’s son, built a 3, 500-passenger ship with a 120-ton tank designed to hold great white sharks. (So that’s where that oil money went…)

…is pretty much a hero.

They went on safari and did what, you know, everyone does on safari—they shot an elephant.

My wife Sarah and I are absolutely thrilled to welcome a beautiful little boy, Griffin Lincoln Bradley, into the world. He was born at 7:42 AM on March 7th. I’d tell you more, but I’m typing with one hand and holding him with the other.

But I have a good excuse….