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What bothsides coverage really reveals about us
While bothsides coverage is the fallback character of the modern news room, it is distorts and avoids the truth.
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The way media unintentionally keeps us uninformed
There is one thing the press refuses to take responsibility for: the effect of considering important knowledge “unnewsworthy”.
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Get a Colonoscopy
A headline can be technically true and be wrong. And sometimes it isn’t even accurate to say it is technically true.
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Why Bernie Sanders hates the media
Does Sen. Bernie Sanders hate the media? According to Paul Heintz, the political editor for Seven Days, the answer is yes. In this interview for On the Media, Heintz shows Sen. Sanders’ penchant for calling out the media and his ongoing distrust of it. He argues that “the media have never really noticed how Sanders sees them. Because…
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Gamergate and making the world safe for bullying
I think I figured out what has been bothering me about #gamergate. Here’s what I know in an oversimplified narrative: 1. Several journalist gamers (virtually all women) were victims of doxing and bullying online for writing about video games as if it were the mature, mainstream medium that it has become over the last 20 years.…
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The Beast Doesn’t Need to Speak
It is easy for the guy on the top of the pyramid to demand that the ones at the bottom do their jobs. To him, it is irrelevant that his job is actually to carry a football and get the snot beat out of him. That the “other duties as assigned” include ridiculous press conferences full of…
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On the death of real news
Ted Koppel is one of the most trusted, and trustworthy, journalists in American history. His work with ABC News and Nightline is impeccable. Almost more noteworthy, to me, is his post-Nightline work, which seems as hardhitting as ever, especially in his criticism of the role money has come to play in journalism and the news…
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It’s the Context, Stupid!
There’s a reason people don’t trust journalists anymore. OK, there are several, many of which have to do with political hacks arguing about bias, but there’s a more fundamental problem with journalists. The pursuit of objectivity creates subjectivity. It’s easy for most of us to look at a situation and say “here’s how it happened…”…