J.K. Trotter's saved articles

"Tommy Craggs" sounds like the name of a fourth-string running back autogenerated by Madden's franchise mode Read more

At Nick Denton's wedding, one of the few images I remember vividly is Craggs grinding with his girlfriend up against a mirrored wall, completely shithoused, looking at himself in the mirror (tuxedo-clad, flawless, primal, sweaty) before looking down at her. Up and down, up and down, gyrating, shallow thrusts. Read more

I started to go through my folder of bad sports stats posts and had to quit. Too many, whole separate genre of bad. Read more

Any piece where the author runs a simple linear regression between two sports stats, doesn't investigate independence of observation, doesn't provide residuals or qq plots, doesn't say a word about diagnostics or outliers or influential data points, and then basks in the glory of the profound truths he's unleashed on… Read more

While I can't say that I saw every single correction Vox has made, I was especially struck by the lack of Sarah Kliff ones. There are a few, like this: Read more

Could I have used softer language? Yes, probably, and a lot more people would like me right now! But I've often joked that the lie that crime reporters tell themselves is their work makes a difference. Serial reminded me that indeed, on most days, that is a lie. We write and we write and we write and ... what… Read more

I don't think she was "Shitting" on anything, but whatever she did, she did because Serial was bad journalism. That was Moskovitz's point and the content of her story was a demonstration of exactly and only that. Read more

Thanks for your reply. I absolutely agree that people can get exposure if they want it. Serial isn't the only place to hear about the shortcomings of our justice system and I don't think that was the draw. I already knew how testimonies could be influenced or how evidence could be manipulated but it still was very… Read more

The average person can get this exposure, if they want it. You can read Gawkers Letters from Death Row, which has been going on for years without people deciding it's the greatest thing to happen to storytelling since storytelling was invented: http://gawker.com/tag/death-row-…. You can read up on the many stories of… Read more

I'll tell you what. There is some good-ass kinja to be had re: Chuck shitting on the floor one time over at Gawker. Read more