Free Post Consuming Journalism Everything is about that guy One gets the sense that CNN is struggling to adjust to life after Trump. CNN took an article about physical security upgrades at the White House and turned it into a Trump and Melania did X petty thing article. According to the article, the
Free Post Blog Consuming Journalism: Rising numbers...why? I know I said I was done with Consuming Journalism. I've never claimed to not not be an unreliable narrator (untangle that...and then let me know what it means, because I'm not sure). I am very much interested in how we consume and
Free Post Consuming Journalism Consuming Journalism: Parler (Note: Consuming Journalism is an attempt to look at how information is presented and how we can better approach that information, not necessarily the merits of the underlying arguments or policy prescriptions.) You've probably heard that advice about writing - make it personal. Well,
Free Post shoulda been a tweet Shoulda been a tweet: Ackerman as Obi-Wan Boy have I been wrong about Afghanistan the past 15 years. I thought it was part of the Forever Wars. A war that we happily allowed U.S. elected officials and DOD personnel to lie about. If you haven't read the Washington Post's Afghanistan
Free Post consumingjournalism 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