Media Matters

* Another sign of the times: The Tampa Bay Times recently included a note to readers about making tax-deductable donations to the paper to support investigative journalism. We get it. These are challenging times and investigative journalism, never more necessary, is imperiled. But it would be prudent if the Times would also promise to invest donations in copy editors, proof readers and seasoned news judgment.

* Spoiler alert: If you’re planning on checking out Amazon’s “One Child Nation” documentary, be prepared for more than interviews and rationalizations about that beyond-shameless Chinese family-planning policy. More graphic than sonograms: That’s when we stopped watching.

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