Publications like the Times, the Journal, and the Washington Post provide a lot more signed columns and "news analysis" pieces than they used to do — too many, IMHO.
The Times has covered the event and its fallout in news, opinion and analysis pieces as well as a video and a charticle.
Last week the Guardian published the Nauru files, more than 2,000 leaked incident reports from inside the Australian-backed immigration detention centre on Nauru, as well as dozens of articles and analysis pieces.
There is another important difficulty: the increasing amount of opinion writing in the news sections — whether in the form of columns or analysis pieces or attitude-infused features writing.
January's news agenda was dominated by the Paris attacks - with live blogs and analysis pieces performing particularly strongly as people sought up-to-the-minute information and intelligent insight.
The print media do offer analysis pieces — but these pieces, out of a desire to seem "balanced," all too often simply repeat the he-said-she-said of political speeches.
The cable television blabbers still put a frame around the event, and the morning analysis pieces in The Washington Post and The New York Times continue to generate pickup and chatter, but the picture that emerged from this convention was also rendered in a thousand other pixels of coverage.
As senior film critic for The Times from 1969 to 1993 (he began reviewing films for the paper in 1965) and then as a theater critic, Mr. Canby delivered trenchant insights, sober judgments and wry humor in reviews for the daily paper and in longer analysis pieces for Arts & Leisure on Sunday.
"It's very clear the tablet is a device where people are drawn to the longform style of journalism – the analysis pieces, comment and opinion pieces – and they spend longer with the content, with more pageviews on average per visit, and those visits are longer," he says.
I'm beginning to realize that the scattered collection of one-off blog posts I find via sites like Hacker News are both more interesting and more thoughtful than most mainstream-media opinion, context, or analysis pieces.
And he often will take somewhat obscure but intellectually interesting topics and turn them into short analysis pieces.
