Consuming Journalism

Here comes the rain again

It was a dark, windy, and rainy night. Sounds like we're going to get drenched here in the Pacific Northwest. Stay safe everyone! Let's hope it helps with western wildfires. I thought this was a pretty cool description from the National Weather Service: Given

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Our phones know everything

There's a very interesting article in the New York Times that shows just how much information can be gleaned from phones. The article unfolds against the backdrop of political battles in the Catholic church. Catholic Officials on Edge After Reports of Priests Using GrindrI'm

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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