Oxblog’s David Adesnik saw a Washington Post piece claiming Starbucks was impoverishing needy students throughout the country. And — in defense of students and Starbucks — wrote a typically adept letter to the editor.
But he also did a detailed fisking of this muckracking coffeebean raking story. A MUST READ for students, Starbucks fans (and Starbucks management).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.