Tag: journalism
-
Various and et cetera, April ’24 edition
Time magazine is no longer a serious publication. But you knew that already. Behold, the crisis in modern journalism as told in four covers: Everyone knows the only point of all the gazillion celebrity awards shows out there is to let the organizers party and hobnob with the celebrities. That’s it. And it’s no different…
-
Yes, online abuse hurts.
Jessica Valenti has me blocked on Twitter. I didn’t even know this until recently. Someone I follow had quoted this prominent feminist writer, but I all I saw was the “This tweet is unavailable” line you usually get if someone deleted her tweet. Curious, I clicked on her profile and got the bad news. I…
-
The stupidest tech article I’ve seen in a long, long time.
And that is saying a lot. While shopping for a laptop, I came across this article. I had to double-check to make sure it was not from 2011, and that it was not from CNET. Although from India, it could have been pushed to CNET with nary an edit — that’s how wretched this smeared…
-
“Here’s what you need to know”
Over at Hotair.com, conservative Jazz Shaw weighs in on the Flint poisoned-water debacle, denouncing liberals who put sole blame on Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. After all, Shaw writes, there is plenty of blame to be also shared with the Democratic mayor and the Democratic president’s EPA. He’s right, but this sort of partisan finger-pointing is not…
-
“Serious” journalism is *supposed* to be biased, apparently.
The venerable Columbia Journalism Review has long served as self-appointed arbiter of the rules that bind journalists, policing coverage for errors, bias or problems with tone. For instance, this Best-and-Worst list for 2015 gives praise where it was due (coverage of Bill Cosby; increasingly critical coverage of sports leagues, as opposed to ESPN’s advertorials) and…
-
Is “activist journalist” an oxymoron?
Yesterday I went off on a Twitter tirade about al Jazeera intentionally changing the language of the European immigration debate in order to pursue a biased agenda. How acceptable should this sort of thing be? This dovetailed nicely with Trump’s latest blowup with a member of the press, namely, Jorge Ramos. Basically, Ramos demanded to…
-
Anti-intellectualism and the college campus
The greatest advancement of Western culture was not electricity or antibiotics or the computer, but the movement to which the discoverers of each owed a great debt: the Enlightenment. To oversimplify a bit, this was a grouping of philosophies that rejected magical thinking, encouraged debate, celebrated reason, and promoted individualism as a check on mindless…
forbiddencomma 