Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Journalism

  • What bothsides coverage really reveals about us

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    6 min read

    While bothsides coverage is the fallback character of the modern news room, it is distorts and avoids the truth.

  • The way media unintentionally keeps us uninformed

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    2 min read

    There is one thing the press refuses to take responsibility for: the effect of considering important knowledge “unnewsworthy”.

  • Get a Colonoscopy

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    4 min read

    A headline can be technically true and be wrong. And sometimes it isn’t even accurate to say it is technically true.

  • Why Bernie Sanders hates the media

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    4 min read

    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

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    5 min read

    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

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    5 min read

    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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