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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
A Return to Zapruder in the Live-Stream World
/83 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election, Press and Media/by emptywheelA member of the White House press corps told Jay Rosen last year that the press corps basically has to travel closely with the President to ensure that they’re there if something serious happens. But the back story of how the NYT learned of Hillary’s badly worded comment about RFK’s assassination on Friday certainly challenges that idea.