Jack Shafer

American journalist Jack Shafer (born November 14, 1951) is an American journalist who wrote about media for Politico until June 2024. Prior to joining Politico, he worked for Reuters, wrote and edited for Slate, and edited two city weeklies, Washington City Paper and SF Weekly.[when?][not verified in body] Much of Shafer's writing focuses on what he sees as a lack of precision and rigor in reporting by the mainstream media,[citation needed] which he says "thinks its duty is to keep you cowering in fright." He has frequently written about media coverage of the war on drugs.[not verified in body] Early life and education Jack Shafer was born on November 14, 1951,[where?][citation needed] and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, describing himself as "the son of lapsed Catholics". As a newspaper boy in his youth, he delivered hardcopies of the Kalamazoo Gazette for five years. He chose not to do an undergraduate journalism degree, graduating instead from Western Michigan University with a B.A. in communications.[when?] In his first five years after graduation, Shafer lived in California, "then hitched through Asia, New Zealand and Australia". Career Shafer has been writing and editing as