“When you’re a member of the very society you’re reporting on, every word is laden with responsibility. Personal and professional are always mixed”
In my eight years as an Orthodox journalist writing mainly about Orthodox life for...
Category Archives: Journalism
“…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...
“We need to talk about the real ‘problem with the discourse’, which is the cheap culture of false equivalency and its exploitation”
We need to talk about the real “problem with the discourse”, which is 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...
“Trump’s deteriorating relationship with the press is revealing about Trump himself…”
Trump’s deteriorating relationship with the press is revealing about Trump himself — about the...
“There is an idealistic and a cynical reason for automatic equivalence in political reporting”
There is an idealistic and a cynical reason for automatic equivalence in political reporting....
“…the national press is undoubtedly cosmopolitan in its outlook…”
I have worked in a number of newsrooms, and I know writers and editors...
“It’s not that we shouldn’t have covered Trump’s craziness, but that we should have aggressively provided context in the form of fact checks and robust examination of policy proposals”
Although many of us journalists have derided Trump, the truth is that he generally...
“Our first big failing was that television in particular handed Trump the microphone without adequately fact-checking him or rigorously examining his background, in a craven symbiosis that boosted audiences for both”
Those of us in the news media have sometimes blamed Donald Trump’s rise on...