Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Friday music blogging: The Avett Brothers
Last week I mentioned Southern rock as one of the things I’d spurned in my youthful rejection of my native culture, only to rediscover and appreciate it as an adult. A similarly inclined reader wrote in to recommend the Avett Brothers, a band out of North Carolina (not rock, per se, but quite Southern in […]
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How fake trend pieces are born
Culture reporter wants to write something on green, but needs something new, a counterintuitive trend piece that can get some attention. PR shill pitches reporter on fake trend: blue is the new green! Perfect. Reporter calls actual green journalist. Actual green journalist points out that trend is fake. Even better! Now you’ve got a trend […]
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Bono knows how to use the cameras
He answers the Davos question: “What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?”
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Homuncular Americans lose their greatest advocate
Dennis Kucinich is dropping out of the presidential race, or as he puts it, “transiting out of the presidential campaign.” Good to see him leave on a note of support for public transportation. It is a widely held belief in liberal quarters, and in some pockets of the Grist office, that Kucinich was the greenest […]
