“…journalism, as a field, is as addled as an addict, gaunt, wasted, and twitchy, its pockets as empty as its nights are sleepless”
In the past half century, and especially in the past two decades, journalism itself—the...
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“…the story of the people vs. Haaretz is not a story of a country whose public is no longer willing to tolerate debate”
Four factors have converged to make Haaretz more annoying to Israelis today than ever...
“This New York-iest of politicians, now an idiosyncratic, write-your-own-rules president, has stumbled into the most conventional of Washington traps…”
The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, has taken to slapping journalists who write...
“Relations between the president and the media are going to be bad”
Relations between the president and the media are going to be bad. The role...
“The echo chamber had morphed into a full-blown alternate reality silo of conspiracy theories, fake news and propaganda”
For many listeners, nothing was worse than Hillary Clinton. Two decades of vilification had...
“One staple of every radio talk show was, of course, the bias of the mainstream media”
One staple of every radio talk show was, of course, the bias of the...
“…conservatives with big microphones taught their listeners not to believe what is reported in the mainstream media…”
…while conservatives with big microphones taught their listeners not to believe what is reported...
“Conflicts gain sustained American attention only when they provide a compelling story line that appeals to both the public and political actors…”
The United States is the world’s sole remaining superpower, but Americans often seem so...
“In retrospect, Facebook’s takeover of online media looks rather like a slow-motion coup”
In retrospect, Facebook’s takeover of online media looks rather like a slow-motion coup. Before...
“Trump flouts the epistemological basis of contemporary political discourse…”
The strange alliance that has emerged between even Trump-supporting Republican elites and a critical...