Bill Keller with The Marshall Project :

Keller said one of the advantages of doing philanthropic journalism is reporters don’t face the same concerns about whether a story will be popular with a broad audience. There aren’t the same pressures to produce Internet traffic.

Like doing a blog for the hell of it.

Talent will out.

​. . . . in his annual Christmas speech, when he accused the Curia of a catalogue of “spiritual diseases.”​

http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2014/12/22/pope-francis-risky-lovehate-relationship-with-the-vatican/

​“I have to say, I didn’t feel great walking out of that room today,” one senior Vatican official said, who had been in the Vatican’s Sala Clementina for the speech and who spoke on the condition he not be identified. “I understand that the pope wants us to live up to our ideals, but you wonder sometimes if he has anything positive to say about us at all,” the official said, who’s been in Vatican service for more than two decades. For the record, this was an official who describes himself as an “enthusiast” over the direction being set by Pope Francis.

​He does let himself go, doesn’t he?

​The sister who led the Vatican investigation of American nuns tells something very important about the Pope as mass-sayer:​

http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2014/12/20/a-great-week-for-pope-francis-in-american-pr/?s_campaign=crux:email:daily

​You met the pope before the presentation. What was that like?
It was an awesome experience. I’d heard from people who have been to his private Mass, but you really have to experience the presence of a man of God who’s at the Mass to pray. He’s not concerned about who’s there, but about the Eucharist, and he drew us into prayer.​

​So important, that “not concerned about who’s there” but praying and drawing others to do so.

​​Slavery reduced cost of cotton, fueled the Industrial Revolution? Nope.​

​Pat Hickey with the goods on Cuba, Bill Ayers, and our own would-be maximum leader.​

http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/2014/12/president-obama-pays-back-bill-ayers.html

She claimed being raped by campus Republican, specifying all but his first name. Nothing of the kind, Breitbart found.