The extract you put on the blog is a pretty good summary of the full article in The New Yorker. Reading the whole New Yorker piece is definitely worth the time. I got a traditional journalism school education in the U.S., so the material was familiar to me. But it never hurts to reaffirm the faith. And I’ve never seen anything in The New Yorker that was really badly written.

But getting back to the point: It takes a real human with an interesting or provocative perspective to make a newspaper, magazine or website really, oh, “sing.” So true.

This works on the broadcast side, too. If you have a little time, wander around they Sky satellite and spend a few minutes on Russia Today — known to its close, personal friends as “RT.”

I don’t know who the personality is behind it. But I can feel the influence of somebody, or maybe a tight little group, who still loves the news business, still gets charged up about, never runs out of new ways to go about it. Frankly, I was surprised that I enjoyed “RT.”

And the website isn’t half bad. You’ll find it at this URL:
http://www.russiatoday.com/

Be patient. I find it a little slow loading sometimes.

REG CROWDER
Financial & Investment Writer
London, England & Brittany, France