Reason's entire June issue is now online, including citings, a soundbite from Clayton Cramer, and a look back into the magazine's June 1977 edition.
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|6.5.07 @ 10:46AM|#
Where the hell is my magazine!?! I'm a subscriber, dammnit.
Oh right, Chicago has the worst mail service in the nation. Nevermind.
|6.5.07 @ 11:45AM|#
I read David Cay Johnston's letter regarding your mass transportation article with amusement. He seeks to distinguish New York City's mass transportation issues from the rest of the country. That's fair enough, but he doesn't make any case the NYC is better or worse. The last 8 years has seen reduced subway and bus service while prices have risen. Let's not forget the chunks of money that go missing periodically and that we subsidize a whole brigage of obsolete union workers. And I'm supposed to draw some earth-shattering conclusion from Johnston's investigative findings that NYC is different from other metropolises?
David Cay Johnston also does a sloppy job writing about utilities. He has a knack for making his flimsy analyses sound reasoned. He's supposedly an expert in taxes, but people who know what they're talking about see through his articles because his articles lack a historical context.
Overall, David Cay Johnston writes a lot of stuff that sounds great to the average reader but has little basis in reality. See, for example, his 2006 article, Many Utilities Collect for Taxes They Never Pay." Sounds evil and dastardly, doesn't it? Well, it isn't. Johnston's headline is the newspaper version of trolling. It turns out, over 4/5 of the states use the system that Johnston decries. The explanation is too complicated to fit on a bumper sticker, so I guess Johnston left it alone.
My point is that Johnston's criticisms of your article are easily formulated pop criticisms. Yeah, NYC isn't Minneapolis. But for an "investigative" reporter, Johnston doesn't seem to do much digging.
VM|6.5.07 @ 1:24PM|#
JasonC: nuther one? kewl. Mr. Crane will be along shortly to give you your Chicago stamp :)
|6.5.07 @ 1:47PM|#
Excellent, VM. Tell Mr. Crane I am across from lovely (though not today) Millennium Park.
Hayekian Dreamer|6.5.07 @ 3:37PM|#
Jason - if you're still waiting for your 1977 magazine you might want to ask the billing department... *flees*