A One-Part Tribute
As first reported yesterday in the L.A. Weekly, the famed LAT media critic David Shaw has been laid low by inoperable brain cancer. Shaw has doing media criticism since before it was cool, starting at the LAT in 1974 and winning a Pulitzer in 1991. His trademark all along has been the exhaustive multi-part series, and so today Gawker pays an eloquent one-part tribute to him:
Yes, Shaw hates blogs. And, yes, he can be long-winded (both in print, where his trademark investigations typically ran over several days and several full broadsheet pages, and also on the phone, where a simple, tell-me-about-your-life Q&A with half of us a few years ago ran to nearly two hours of monologue).
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
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