news items

News Items is about news. It values objective journalism, perceptive analysis and intelligent commentary. It avoids opinion journalism. There's more than enough of that. 

News Items covers four main subjects

World in Disarray

Financialization of Everything

Advances in Science and Technology

Electoral politics, foreign and domestic

News Items is about the news. It values objective journalism and intelligent analysis. It avoids opinionated commentary.

language

Whenever possible, the News Items morning email uses the exact language used in the reports, commentaries, essays, etc. Some items are edited for clarity or cohesion. Hyper-links take you directly to the source(s) cited.

sources

Over all, News Items relies on roughly 65-75 websites for its source material. Many of those sites are pay-wall protected. Taking this into account, items sometimes run long, so that the reader (hopefully) gets the “gist” of the “story.

Distribution

News Items is distributed six days a week, by 6:45am ET on weekdays. The weekend edition is distributed Saturday or Sunday morning, depending on news flow.

philosophy

A famous novelist once said that great fiction described “the way we live now.” News Items describes, through journalism and analysis, “the way things are now.” It can be bracing and even discouraging at times, but it’s true.


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