The horribly gray state of misinformation A Harvard University survey of 150 of the country’s top experts on “misinformation” provides a wonderful illustration of why American journalism should have avoided the quagmire […]
What is ‘true’?
Spinning the news
Gas stoves are heating up in the news, and Boston Globe reporter Travis Andersen is bragging about it like a teenage boy: “Happy new year, Into the Red readers, “I can’t believe […]
Dangerous words
The news these days is so bad it could make you sick. Or so say researchers from Texas Tech University who studied what is being called “problematic news consumption.” “It has been […]
Journocide
Far too much time and energy is wasted in this country arguing about whether lefty-righty bias has driven the faith in traditional media to an all-time low. Yes, it would be nice […]
Banning books
When and how was it that American journalists became so contumelious toward the U.S. working class? On second thought, let me rephrase that to head off the comments from conservative critics of […]
Down, down, down
Update: The possibility of a McClatchy company bankruptcy suggested here last week is now being bandied about by the mainstream media. “Newspaper Publisher McClatchy Teeters Near Bankruptcy,” Bloomberg headlined today. The story […]
Bias in our eyes
Our eyes have prejudices, according to psychologists studying how we view the world. City people and country people are likely to look at the same picture and perceive different images, suggests […]
Good-bye love
Journalism as those over 30 have known it might not be dead yet, but it is on its death bed. Anyone who has any doubts needs to get out of his or […]
Losing battle
In this post-truth world, media “fact-checking” of so many things might well be a waste of time, the director of technology, media and communications specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public […]
Journalogrpahy? Stenoism?
Sometimes the state of journalism in this country today is enough to make someone who has spent a life in the business want to cry. Here is the Anchorage Daily News, the […]
