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For inspiration, I turned back the pages of time to my first Tony’s Tackle Box column in 2005.

When I asked Jack Shafer to reflect on his Press Box column, which he wrote for Slate from 2002 to 2011, his responses were typically blunt.

His very first Press Box column mocked Michael Crichton’s media doomsaying; six years later Shafer admitted that Crichton hadn’t been so far off.

Slate took down the Diary entries and apologized in a Press Box column headed “Slate Gets Duped.”

As one column makes its debut, another bows out: the Complaint Box column will now appear only on the City Room blog.