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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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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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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The Dull Art of Problematizing Everything
Few things in life are certain. Some will populate a short list of inevitabilities with death and taxes, but really, only the former is guaranteed—just ask the sitting president of…
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Should Journalism Speak Truth to Power?
If you teach journalism, as I have for several decades at a trio of US universities, you will hear your most engaged students gush one or both of the following…
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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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