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About emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
Entries by emptywheel
Imagine
/47 Comments/in emptywheel, Misc/by emptywheelTwenty eight years ago tonight, in the middle of a Monday Night Football game between the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots, Howard Cosell rocked my world in a most profoundly tragic way.
Trash Talk – Recession/Depression Era Edition
/116 Comments/in emptywheel, Football, Trash Talk/by emptywheelThe economic crisis is starting to really intertwine with the sports world in many ways. And, worst of all, talk about yer depression, today we have to deal with those damn dirt thieves, Freepatriot’s Boomer Sooners. Speaking of dirt, lets get down to the nitty gritty.