Jack Shafer

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Jack Shafer (born November 14, 1957) is an American journalist who most recently wrote about media for Politico.^[1] Prior to joining Politico, he worked for Reuters and also edited and wrote the column "Press Box" for Slate, an online magazine. Before his stay at Slate, Shafer edited two city weeklies, Washington City Paper and SF Weekly. Much of Shafer's writing focuses on what he sees as a lack of precision and rigor in reporting by the mainstream media, which he says "thinks its duty is to keep you cowering in fright."^[2] One frequent topic is media coverage of the War on Drugs.