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05 June 2004
05 June 200411:34 am: If you crossed Jorge Luis Borges and Isaac Babel, and forced the monstrosity that resulted to write on deadline, you might wind up with something like the journalism of Steven I. Weiss -- erudite and two-fisted, obsessive-compulsive brilliance expressed in broad strokes. Weiss is a case study in how the internet can foster nonfiction writing that's deeper, smarter, and more entertaining than that manufactured through the chain of command at the dailies. If only Weiss knew it! On a panel about Jewish blogging a few weeks ago, Weiss lamented his expulsion from Yeshiva University (for sins he wouldn't explain). Had he remained, he speculated, he might have followed the well-worn path of internships and suburban stringing to finally land at a desk in a major daily newsroom. Instead, he charged off into the blogosphere. Now, he's jumped into print, a staffer at the one weekly in America that truly deserves the terms "unique" and "necessary" -- the Jewish Forward. There you'll find Weiss's latest, a true tale of brawling Brooklyn rabbis in Lithuania, an expose of the Jewish conspiracy for worldwide control -- you know, the one where Chabad tries to take turf from the "Joint," aka the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. What? This is news to you? Then read on for a dispatch from the frontier of the journalism of the obscure.
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