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When Fiction Is Truer Than Fact: Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo Journalism

Just over fifty years ago, in 1971, Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was published and instantly became a countercultural classic. However, people have always struggled to…

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Features

Free Speech: Truth’s Only Ally

Despite our keen intelligence and irrepressible curiosity about the nature of the world in which we live, we humans are not primarily truth-seekers. We are a species of social ape,…

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5 min

Culture & Media

Why Don’t We Have a Spotify Model for News?

I’ve never really needed to pay for my news. When I was a teenager, I’d buy magazines to learn about the latest in gaming, but by the time I reached…

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How Journal Editors Can Stifle the Writer’s Voice

Neither digital nor print magazines have any responsibility to publish everything that is sent to them. First, this isn’t even physically possible. Second, many submissions are poorly written, badly argued…

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5 min

Culture & Media

Would Hunter S. Thompson Be Cancelled Today?

It’s a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.—Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine. The father of gonzo journalism was known for his uncompromising but…

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4 min

Politics

A Fairness Doctrine for the Twenty-First Century

Michael Goldhaber, who popularized the term the attention economy, said of the US Capitol insurrection: “It felt like an expression of a world in which everyone is desperately seeking their…

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Journalistic Objectivity: What Is True and What Is Important?

The objectivity, reliability and transparency of the news have become hot topics in recent years. Ours is the era of supposedly fake news, in which there is little consensus about…

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5 min

Culture & Media

Julian Assange and the Cowardice of the Modern Media

Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who broke the story about widespread NSA surveillance, recently resigned from the Intercept, the media outlet he co-founded, citing the publication’s increasing ideological homogeneity…

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6 min

Politics

The Generational Divide and the Death of Dialectic

Each generation goes to battle against the ones that came before. The most recent skirmish on this front has involved a millennial and Gen-Z coalition fighting against Gen-X and boomers.…

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5 min

Psychology

Journalism’s Armchair Psychology

While I’m not sure whether the AP specifically prohibits it, I would like to petition all journalists not to psychologize subjects when they have no evidence for their claims. If…

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8 min

Culture & Media

Siding With The Audience

A variety of recent high-profile media stories have demonstrated the extent to which news reporting has been altered by the power of social media. Traditional journalism is scarcely recognizable—so we…

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9 min

Culture & Media

The Emperor’s New Outrage: Why Legacy Media Is in Trouble

New media—news and entertainment entities native to the Internet, whether companies or individuals—are gaining a share of customer attention and wallet at the expense of legacy media—newspapers, television stations and…

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Politics

James O’Keefe: a Political Activist Posing as a Journalist

There is nothing more “perverted” than to run an interference campaign for a deranged child molester on the basis of his extreme politics, while simultaneously claiming the moral high ground.

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Journalism

When Fiction Is Truer Than Fact: Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo Journalism

Free Speech: Truth’s Only Ally

Why Don’t We Have a Spotify Model for News?

How Journal Editors Can Stifle the Writer’s Voice

Would Hunter S. Thompson Be Cancelled Today?

A Fairness Doctrine for the Twenty-First Century

Journalistic Objectivity: What Is True and What Is Important?

Julian Assange and the Cowardice of the Modern Media

The Generational Divide and the Death of Dialectic

Journalism’s Armchair Psychology

Siding With The Audience

The Emperor’s New Outrage: Why Legacy Media Is in Trouble

James O’Keefe: a Political Activist Posing as a Journalist

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