LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
ents deal with the idea of parenthood themselves. For some, the
answer is to opt out completely.
“There’s not an insignificant
number of people who just don’t
have any confidence that they could
raise children, because they feel like
their role models were so terrible,”
Joshua Coleman, a San Franciscobased psychologist, told Catherine.
For others, their experiences
become a sort of guide to what
not to do. “For us, it’s really been
a lot of talking about, ‘How do we
do things differently, so we don’t
follow in those footsteps?’” says
Joanna, a 33-year-old parent of a
2 1/2-year-old boy.
In our Voices section, Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy ponders the
significance of Ezra Klein’s likely
departure from The Washington
Post, where the star journalist’s
eight-figure proposal for a new site
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focused on explanatory journalism
was rejected. Kennedy compares
the situation to a similar missed
opportunity at The Post in 2006,
when John Harris and Jim VandeHei left the paper to start Politico.
“The problem with such sce-
Cheney never gave an
inch where perhaps two
would have been helpful.
narios is that media executives
— and business leaders in general
— are not accustomed to the idea
of giving up control,” Kennedy argues. “Legacy news organizations
need to find a way to tap into that
success outside the old models of
ownership and not worry about
obsolete notions of employer-employee relationships.”
Finally, as part of our continued
focus on The Third Metric, we spotlight nine ways to be the
master of your own mind.
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