Free Post Consuming Journalism Consuming Journalism: The Independent is bad at context or dishonest I want Trump to lose. I want his campaign to be doing poorly. I don't want journalists to spin context to reassure me that Trump thinks he's losing and that his campaign is doing poorly. If you read (watch) The Independent, you might get
Free Post Consuming Journalism Houston, we have a lot of problems In my previous post I said I wasn't going to talk any more about the election or COVID's influence on the election. It's still the same day. As the owner of this obscure, quiet corner of the internet, I'm exercising my right to a
Free Post Consuming Journalism Proofreader for hire Anyone who has posted online has made a typo. My posts have lots of errors and typos. Probably an error in this post. But it's an obscure blog. Fox News, hire a proofreader. Update: They must have a proofreader.
Free Post Consuming Journalism Consuming Journalism: Media literacy I started writing short Consuming Journalism features on my blog years ago. I'm sure I tried to explain why I started writing it, but I'm not going to go back through the years and through several different blog platforms to find those explanations. (Bloggers,
Free Post Consuming Journalism Consuming Journalism: What is evidence? There are still loads of good journalists, but they're stuck in the Death Star's trash compactor. I hope we find some capable droids to free them. Tucker Carlson had Dr. Li-Meng Yan on his show recently. I haven't got cable, so recently is as
Free Post Consuming Journalism Madness I didn't want to do an addendum to the previous post about Jeffrey Goldberg's collection of unnamed sources saying things, but I have to. I promise I will try to keep it short. I recommend not reading it. This is largely for my own
Free Post Consuming Journalism Consuming Journalism: Jeffrey Goldberg and the declining credibility of unnamed sources [Note: I botched this in its original form. I started writing Consuming Journalism features a couple of years ago as an exercise in reading journalism more critically. In the original post, I let my frustration with unnamed sources steal the spotlight. I want Consuming
Free Post Consuming Journalism Consuming Journalism: Los Angeles sheriff's deputies shoot and kill man This post is about the preliminary coverage of a fatal shooting of a black man (some articles identify him as Dijon Kizzee) in Los Angeles by L.A. sheriff's deputies. I saw that both the L.A. Times and Fox News covered the shooting,
Free Post Consuming Journalism Consuming Journalism: Trump, SATs, and circular reporting Did Donald Trump pay someone to take the SAT for him? I don't know, and I'm not any closer to knowing despite the media bolstering the allegation through lazy, shoddy reporting. I don't know if there's a running history of similar allegations. The current
Free Post Consuming Journalism Consuming Journalism: Something's wrong at the New York Times Obviously, I cannot be trusted on my claims to have permanently retired the Consuming Journalism feature. I'd be better off (healthier, happier) if I could stick to that claim. We're back to the kompromat in a bad article by Michael S. Schmidt. (The article
Free Post 2020 Shoulda been a tweet: Taibbi on our great divide Apologies to regular readers, I’m going to repeat myself a bit here. In 2016, I left DC for Seattle, embarking on a flubbed career change. I drove. I’m not a great distance driver. I stopped for a lot of coffee. It seemed
Free Post 2020 Use your words If you’re a linear thinker, you might want to skip this one. You’ve been warned. It wasn’t my best pandemic day. Every time I told myself I should eat I poured another cup of coffee. That worked for Hunter S. Thompson.
Free Post 2020 Consuming Journalism: Cops in unmarked vans and Russia I joined Substack a long time ago in what I hoped would be part of my wildly successful freelance career. I never really figured out what I was doing there, or with my freelance career. Regardless, I had a little series I did that
Free Post Charlie Warzel Shoulda been a tweet: Fermi and Portland Hi. I hope everyone is well. I loved seeing those overcast skies and a little bit of rain today in Seattle. I remember reading about Fermi’s Paradox a few years ago. It blew my mind. Fermi was a big brain physicist. I guess
Free Post Consuming Journalism Consuming Journalism: Let's call this an addendum, shall we A casual glance at the news sites shows that most of them have run with a recap of the New York Times article about Russia paying bounties for the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. They’re not caveating the story(ies). Their