Journalism, Orthodoxy “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” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 May 2020 In my eight years as an Orthodox journalist writing mainly about Orthodox life for...
Internet, Journalism, News Media, Newspapers, Websites “…journalism, as a field, is as addled as an addict, gaunt, wasted, and twitchy, its pockets as empty as its nights are sleepless” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 February 2019 In the past half century, and especially in the past two decades, journalism itself—the...
Journalism “We need to talk about the real ‘problem with the discourse’, which is the cheap culture of false equivalency and its exploitation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 May 2017 We need to talk about the real “problem with the discourse”, which is the...
News Media, Newspapers, Politics in America, Television “Relations between the president and the media are going to be bad” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 February 2017 Relations between the president and the media are going to be bad. The role...
America, Politics in America “Double standards in politics are not uncommon” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 February 2017 Double standards in politics are not uncommon. They are not even necessarily wrong. But...
Journalism, News Media, Politics in America “…conservatives with big microphones taught their listeners not to believe what is reported in the mainstream media…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 December 2016 …while conservatives with big microphones taught their listeners not to believe what is reported...
Journalism, Politics in America “There is an idealistic and a cynical reason for automatic equivalence in political reporting” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 September 2016 There is an idealistic and a cynical reason for automatic equivalence in political reporting....
Journalism, News Media, Politics in America, Television “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” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 April 2016 Those of us in the news media have sometimes blamed Donald Trump’s rise on...
Journalism, Politics in America “The American two-party system is a creation of the press” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 February 2016 The American two-party system is a creation of the press. “The idea of a...
Journalism “Journalistic interviews in the United States increasingly began to appear in the 1860s” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 November 2015 Journalistic interviews in the United States increasingly began to appear in the 1860s. Before...