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The Internet democratizes and distributes. It makes a mess first, products at a higher level of abstraction help you navigate the mess. We've seen this with search and the importance of Google. This is why the news ...

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news is no longer what a powerful person wants people to be prevented from knowing but what can be salvaged from the sea of information. The Blog as Beat

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To elaborate on Doll's idea that getting cancer is "largely a matter of luck": risk factors such as smoking can increase an individual's risk, but whether one actually gets a cancer is still a matter of unpredictable chance. On PM ...

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Everyone around Donald Trump is too polite to Donald Trump. Democrats, foreign dignitaries, underlings… all of them. And the White House press is perhaps the worst offender. From the media pool playing along with Sarah Sanders during press conferences—conferences where ...

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Whether we are dealing with banks, taxation, security, religion, or climate change, we need more than ever to find ways of encouraging, not penalizing, news organizations that try to report matters of the greatest complexity and significance. The financial crisis ...

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Professional pundits are not usually paid to make correct forecasts. They are paid to sound convincing, whether they are columnists or figureheads for asset managers. Tim Harford, 'Of foxes, hedgehogs and the art of financial forecasting'

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the web, in particular, always served to elevate not just individuals, but subcultures and groups over the great undifferentiated whole. I think this helps account for a broader fragmentation not just along individual lines, but cultural and political lines as ...

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But back to our era's defining mania: resentment over positive externalities. Many people and companies have concluded that if someone, somewhere, is getting value from their labour, that they should get a cut of that value. Irish newspapers are paying ...

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Boing Boing remains relevant and popular -- a "sensibility blog on steroids," as he puts it -- because its editors remain interesting, and that's precisely because they have other projects and are out in the world doing things. "They're not ...

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of course electronic media provides the easiest and cheapest access to information that we've ever had on the planet," McCain said. "But it's also the most easily lost. We've always had this tradeoff between permanence and accessibility." Kristen Hare, 'How to ...

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The newsmedia's compulsion to swarm all over certain news events – shootings, bombs, personal scandals, leaks – poses a genuine risk to the media itself. Its clout weakened by fragmented niche audiences, the media only unites in covering such topics ...

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What is most striking about these "interviews" is not so much their arrogance and lack of intellectual and moral humility; it is their indifference to fundamental issues of justice and freedom and their imposition of narrow, prurient terms of reference. ...

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When you’re covering policy, the usual tools of journalism — cultivating sources, pounding the pavement, pulling out the Rolodex — just won’t cut it. You have to have people who actually understand the policy issues — people who can pound ...

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The product of the news business is change, not wisdom. Wisdom has to do with seeing things in their largest context, whereas news is structured in a way that destroys the larger context. You have to do certain things to ...

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While we are actually watching it, television (or movies), “displays all the features of short experiential time,” writes Rosa—intense action, emotional engagement, all those quick cuts, and so on. Time flies by. But once the show is over, “the remembered ...

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It's part of a much bigger problem. I'm not just talking about news, but about all factual reporting on television. The way they tell stories about the world feels increasingly thin – and more and more detached from the way ...

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The government does not seem able to understand or to explain its authority, the grounds for its decisions. Its antagonists, the press, interprets the government's operations in such a way as to destabilize public judgement. The jargon used by both ...

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The film records an experiment in a mental hospital in San Bernadino - California. The patients are given rewards in the form of plastic fake money if they do what the doctors consider the right social behaviour. They can then ...

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The symbiotic relationship between the press and the power elite worked for nearly a century. It worked as long as our power elite, no matter how ruthless or insensitive, was competent. But once our power elite became incompetent and morally ...

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The European: One would think that being able to look up every little piece of information would be liberating and give us the freedom to consider the big picture rather than the petty details. Carr: I think it is pretty clear ...

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Despite the pervasive assumption that everything online lasts forever, the internet is inherently unstable. Jill Lepore’s recent New Yorker story on archive.org’s Wayback Machine notes the average lifespan of a website is “about a hundred days.” Sites vanish with no ...

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The news outlets sell one thing above all else, and that is not so much the news as it is newness. What one buys when one buys a daily paper, what one purchases when one purchases a magazine, is the ...

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I’m hardly the only one who has noted the discrepancy between official statements and the truth on the ground. A January 2011 report by the Afghan NGO Security Office noted that public statements made by U.S. and ISAF leaders ...

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only one part of the political spectrum – the far right – is really the target for extremist, sensational and conspiratorial content. Over social media, moderates and centrists tend not to be as susceptible. Cas Mudde, Why the hysteria around the ...

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"If I tell you that drinking has gone up during the recession you might tell me because everyone is depressed. If I tell you that drinking is down, you might well tell me that's obviously because everyone is broke. "In other ...

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What are we to make of economics? Not much. So let's move on to celebrity. It's become fashionable among my dinner companions to dismiss celebrity culture, but in so doing they let the illiterate determine the celebrity agenda. The broadsheet ...

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Now that we can watch six live matches every weekend, the secret is out: most football is boring. Simon Kuper, 'Why I’ve fallen out of love with football' Boeklog on Simon Kuper [and on football]

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the whole reason why it is imperative to me to remain independent and not work within a corporate structure and not have any editorial oversight or anything like that, which I don’t, and to be accountable only to my readers ...

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this is a great time to be a reader. The amount of good writing freely available online far exceeds what even the most dedicated consumer might have hoped to encounter a generation ago within the limits of printed media.Robert Cottrell, ...

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[T]oday’s system of news delivery is an enterprise whose procedures, protocols, and underlying assumptions all but guarantee that it cannot succeed at its self described mission. Broadcast journalism in particular is flawed in such a fundamental way that its utility ...

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perhaps the most infantilising thing about journalism is our sense that we don’t do things. We just stand on the sidelines beside the academics and carp. The people who do things – politicians, business executives, etcetera – often deride us ...

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Each time I open a carbon-based newspaper (or read its online version), I’m stuck by how old-fashioned news writing remains. Unbeknownst to the masthead (i.e. editorial top decision-makers) of legacy media, things have changed. Readers no longer demand validating quotes ...

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Worries about information overload are as old as information itself, with each generation reimagining the dangerous impacts of technology on mind and brain. From a historical perspective, what strikes home is not the evolution of these social concerns, but their ...

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[...] WikiLeaks disclosed one of such unofficial talks between the CIA/FBI and the Swedish government, which in fact resulted in an agreement between the two governments for the implementation of intelligence operations in the form of transference of information from ...

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What so frightens the conservative movement about Trump's success is that he reveals just how thin the support for their ideas really is. His campaign is a rebuke to their institutions. It says the Republican Party doesn't need all these ...

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a great deal of information has a social context: we want to recommend what’s good and we need to hear recommendations to figure out what to watch. One only need contemplate “Gangnam Style” or Fifty Shades of Grey to see ...

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Economics, for example, which is central to our life at the moment … I just drift off when people talk about collateralised debt obligations, and I am not alone. It's impossible to illustrate on television, it's impossible to tell a ...

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for columnists, opinions aren’t quite the same thing as they are for other people. Columnists not only have to hold more opinions than everyone else – up to one new one every week – but it’s also extremely important that ...

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If people find it difficult to pay attention to serious texts, it is not because they have become slaves to their mobile phones. What’s really at issue is society’s failure to cultivate a love of reading and create an intellectually ...

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News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. Lord Northcliffe, once the owner of The Observer quoted here

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George Bush's entire presidency was explicitly predicated on the theory that the president has the power to break the law at will whenever he deems that doing so promotes national security. That America's most celebrated journalist not only supports this, ...

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There is apparently less capacity for living and learning in political journalism than there is in elementary school; less object permanence than in nursery school. The Worst Performance of Trump’s Presidency Now Belongs to the Press Corps

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It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you’re reading. It is about what you’re reading.Maureen Dowd, 'As Time Goes Bye'

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Doubt is usually not hard to produce, and facts alone aren’t enough to dispel it. We should have learnt this lesson already; now we’re going to have to learn it all over again.  Tim Harford , in: 'The problem with facts'

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In the 20th century, the news media thrived by being the intermediary others needed to reach customers. In the 21st, increasingly there is a new intermediary: Software programmers, content aggregators and device makers control access to the public. The news ...

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I am not a scientist. I am a journalist. I did not gather with indifference all the facts and arrange them patiently for permanent preservation and laboratory analysis. I did not want to preserve, I wanted to destroy the facts. ...

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"There are consequences to journalism that just reports what each side says," asserts Raymond Pingree, a prof at Ohio State uni. "It makes readers feel like they can’t figure out what the truth is ... this attitude may lead people ...

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don't expect "the media" to do this job for you. Some of its practitioners do, brilliantly and at times heroically. But most of the media exists to sell you things. Its allegiance is to boosting circulation, online traffic, ad revenue. ...

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in the old days, it was a one-way street: you published, and there it was. And now? You can UN-publish too. Teleread: 'Publishing and unpublishing'

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the more news you ingest, the less you actually know. For one thing, your brain -- or my brain at any rate -- can't hold that much information. And all stories are fractal: the closer you look, the more detail ...

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most bloggers have no institutional credibility, so they must build it by linking transparently and allowing you to double-check their work easily. But more than anything, because linking to sources is such an easy thing to do and the motivations for ...

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“Major Memory for Microblogs”*, a recent article in the academic journal Memory & Cognition, found that people were much better at remembering casual writing like Facebook posts or forum comments than lines from books or journalism. One possible reason: “The ...

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I published a book, Breaking the News, which argued that a relentless focus on scandal, spectacle, and the “game” of politics was driving citizens away from public affairs, making it harder for even the least cynical politicians to do an ...

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What's particularly strange about this set of personality and style attacks is what little relationship they bear to reality. Far from being some sort of brutal, domineering, and angry "alpha-male" savage, Chomsky -- no matter your views of him - ...

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Under capitalism, current affairs are presented like this because it makes economic sense. The media generate money by getting our attention and we grant it most reliably not in response to the accurate, illuminating and proportionate, but to the loud, ...

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Apple will sell you a 16GB iPad 2 for just $500, but some people are willing to pay $200 more to get 64GB. Why? Because we haven't quite reached the stage when the specs of our gadgets cease to matter. ...

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According to his biographer Michael Wolff, Murdoch has not used the internet, let alone Google (he only recently discovered email) and so he cannot possibly understand the dynamics, demands and opportunities of our post-industrial, now-digital media economy. Jeff Jarvis, "Rupert Murdoch's ...

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I’m deeply concerned that we don’t have the foggiest clue how to approach the media landscape today. I’m confident that giving grounded people tools to think smarter can be effective. But I’m not convinced that we know how to educate ...

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Writers, poets, painters, musicians, philosophers, political thinkers, to name only a few of the categories affected, must woo their readers, viewers, listeners, from distraction. To this we must add, for simple realism demands it, that these same writers, painters, etc., ...

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It is high time that journalists and politicians stop treating the radical right electorate as the whole population and start to address all issues that concern all Dutch citizens. While this does include immigration and security, at least as important ...

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I don't think even Trump thought he would get this far. And I don’t even know that he wanted to, which is perhaps the scariest prospect of all. He certainly was never prepared or equipped to go all the way to ...

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The formula is this: Say a few harmless (often downright irrelevant) words about the writer, his previous books or his recent successes, say some meaningless things about what a book in the given genre means (reiterating the point of view ...

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The only way we can understand words like God, angel, devil, ghost, is through stories, since these entities do not allow themselves to be known in other ways, or not to the likes of me. Here not only is the ...

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I cannot return to England, my country, because of my journalistic work with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and at WikiLeaks. There are things I feel I cannot even write. For instance, if I were to say that I hoped my ...

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Huffington Post has helped redefine journalistic rules and ethics. Now, with actions like my dismissal and the hiring of mainstream establishment journalists like Howard Fineman and Peter Goodman, it's signaling that it is abandoning its guerilla roots and adopting a ...

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I spent the first half of my adult life almost comically devoted to the belief that journalism would preserve American democracy. I still believe in the sacred duties of a free press. But if I’m honest about my own experiences ...

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When you hear about something terrible, calm yourself by asking: if there had been a positive improvement, would I have heard about that? Even if there had been hundreds of larger improvements, would I have heard? This is “factfulness”: understanding as ...

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I have now gone without news for four years, so I can see, feel and report the effects of this freedom first-hand: less disruption, less anxiety, deeper thinking, more time, more insights. It's not easy, but it's worth it. Rolf Dobelli, ...

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Every day, the New York Times carries a motto in a box on its front page. 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' it says. It's been saying it for decades, day in and day out. I imagine most readers ...

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One thing to keep in mind while worrying about the future of journalism is that its past hasn’t been all that great either. Jim Naureckas, "Before We 'Save' Journalism" From this Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting-special

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* Tradition is not a business model. The past is no longer a reliable guide to future success. * “Should” is not a business model. You can say that people “should” pay for your product but they will only if ...

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The most obvious symptom of the CSI effect is that jurors think they have a thorough understanding of science they have seen presented on television, when they do not. The Economist: The “CSI effect”

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We do not know what we need to know until we ask the right questions, and we can identify the right questions only by subjecting our own ideas about the world to the test of public controversy. Information, usually understood ...

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No one has ever improved on Michael Kinsley's definition of a gaffe, which is what happens when a politician accidentally tells the truth. Jacob Weisberg, "Gordon Brown's Classic Kinsley Gaffe" The conversation of Gordon Brown and Gillian Duffy.

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The U.S. is a rotten basketcase of a nation, with an ancient and constantly backfiring Constitution, a severe case of declining empire neurosis, and an executive branch shot through with criminals and scam artists. The elite press corps of the imperial ...

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there will always be liars in positions of influence—that's stipulated, as the lawyers say. And the media, God knows, have never been ideal watchdogs—the battleships that crossed the seas to avenge the sinking of the Maine attest to that. What's ...

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Democracies often take liberties with their values in the name of national security. Faced with real or spurious threats, governments arm themselves routinely with an entire arsenal of laws aimed at muzzling independent voices. This phenomenon is common to both ...

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Although it is easier than ever to watch programmes at a time and on a device of one’s choosing, and people expect to be able to do so, nearly all TV is nonetheless watched live on a television set. [...] “People ...

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“If you were starting from scratch, you could never possibly justify this business model,” Hal Varian said, in a variation on a familiar tech-world riff about the print-journalism business. “Grow trees—then grind them up, and truck big rolls of paper ...

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George Orwell is anyone's bitch. Whatever the topic, whatever the political position, he can be wheeled out in support to enunciate universal truths in a voice as compelling as the ghost in Hamlet. From voting reform to CCTV, from Trident ...

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Using words to lie destroys language. Using words to cover up lies, however subtly, destroys language. Validating incomprehensible drivel with polite reaction also destroys language. This isn’t merely a question of the prestige of the writing art or the credibility ...

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Humans see what humans need to see, to stay connected with their tribe. And the problem is, first, that our tribes have never since the Civil War been so far apart, and second, that there is a business model in ...

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We should pity journalism. It is not only seeing the news at its very heart taken out, but at a time when democracy is outsmarted by entertainment, it is losing its entire purpose. Carey had a line for this, too: ...

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The British media do not actively want the euro to collapse, any more than my desk wanted 7,000 Taiwanese to be dead. But they want to be first with the biggest, most dramatic story. And if that means reporting the ...

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Across all three social platforms, though, attention spans are brief. Just as news consumers don’t stay long on any website, social media doesn’t stay long on any one story. PEJ: 'New Media, Old Media'

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Fox News stands as the culmination of everything Ailes tried to do for Nixon back in 1968. He has created a vast stage set, designed to resemble an actual news network, that is literally hard-wired into the homes of millions ...

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the thing that has helped me empathise with and try to argue in a friendly and helpful way with bad reasoning and the people who engage in it, has been entirely from the real, practical work. In medicine you come ...

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Assume further that for what you are observing, at the yearly frequency the ratio of signal to noise is about one to one (say half noise, half signal) —it means that about half of changes are real improvements or degradations, ...

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The United States has utterly failed to explain why some leaks of classified information are prosecuted and others (such as those to the prestige press) are not, leaving many to conclude that it likes some leaks (those that help the ...

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[...] news stories are too brief and superficial to supply detailed information about policy and political decision-making processes. Consequently, the news is also inadequate for serious citizen political activity, other than perhaps voting in elections. Knowledge is said to lead ...

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when you are writing journalism your task is to simplify the world and render it comprehensible in one reading; whereas when you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world, to say things that ...

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the high point of my life, if I die tomorrow, the point of my life that is relevant is the 10 years I worked on the daily staff. Because during that time, my whole value system was reinforced by the ...

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• question labels I loved reading the syndicated Sidney J. Harris column in my hometown paper –The (Appleton, Wis.) Post-Crescent – when I was growing up in the ’70s. It got me thinking about language, its complexity and how perspectives vary. ...

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TV executives think that the programs with the highest ratings are what TV viewers want, rather than what they settle for. Pauline Kael

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Here is the deepest and, to many serious journalists, most disturbing truth about the future of news: The audience will control it. They will get the kind of news they choose to get. Not the kind they say they want, ...

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Without getting into whether newspapers are worse or better than before—let’s concede they’re fabulous; that’s why everyone loves them so much—we should pause for a second and think about the implications of the do-more-with-less meme that is sweeping the news ...

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The invincibly ignorant and the intellectual huckster have every right to express their opinions, but their right to free speech is not the right to an audience. Bryan W. Van Norden, in The New York Times

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The only iron law here is the one too obvious to write a book about, which is that the digital age has so transformed the ways in which things are made and sold that there are no iron laws. Malcolm Gladwell, ...

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The use of television has been a source of controversy in the sport, but experts insist it offers a fool-proof method for determining whether a team is good at football or whether it is simply a collection of absurdly over-compensated, ...

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democracy, science, and journalism -- are three valuable institutions that have made life in this country far better than it would be without them. They are worth defending, and worth keeping free of corruption. We can look back over history to ...

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