Burying the Hatchet

January 31, 2014

“The Hatchet Job Award appeals, in its depressingly calculated way, to the basest and most self-serving of journalistic instincts, and seems to arise out of, and perpetuate, a misunderstanding of what criticism actually is.” At Slate, our own Mark O’Connell criticizes the award for promoting the same bad criticism it claims to detest.

is an associate editor for The Millions and an editor in Atlanta. She tweets at @temalone.