Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
fake news
Fake news is Facebookâs problem, right? Well, maybe itâs a touch bigger than that. Maybe Google has the problem, too [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook] : > Are Jews evil? Itâs not a question Iâve ever thought of asking. I hadnât gone
donald trump
Alexandra Ma [https://twitter.com/alexandrama15], one of my current crop of Interactive Journalism students, looks at how the New York Times live covered its meeting with Trump [http://www.interhacktives.com/2016/11/23/new-york-times-coverage-trumps-visit-shows-twitter-can-still-great/] : > But out of all the ways the Times covered the event, Twitter was
donald trump
The newly-elected Donald Trump seems determined to cut the press out of the equation
donald trump
Now is not the time to criticise the Galaxy Note 7 [https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/now-is-not-the-time-to-criticize-the-galaxy-note-7] : > Now, Iâm not going to stand here and pretend like this phone doesnât have problems. After all, the proof that it gets overheated and explodes for practically no reason at
censorship
We are clearly living in interesting times. There are political moves afoot in the student union at City, University of London (where I lecture), to adopt the Stop Funding Hate approach (see post passim [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/11/stop-funding-hate-attack-free-speech.html] ). Thatâs led to a student union
censorship
Stop Stop Funding Hate [http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/11/stop-funding-hate-nasty-elitist-campaign-press-censorship/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lunchtime_Espresso_16112016] , says Brendan OâNeill for The Spectator: > SFHâs agitation to pull ads from newspapers is not some simple, good, happy-clappy act of consumer
alt right media
This piece on hyperpartisan Facebook pages [https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/partisan-fb-pages-analysis], from Buzzfeed, becomes even more compelling in the light of todayâs news: > Our analysis of three hyperpartisan right-wing Facebook pages found that 38% of all posts were either a mixture of true and false or mostly
donald trump
We're all prone to confirmation bias. Even me.
Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/andrew-sullivan-president-trump-and-the-end-of-the-republic.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email] : > This is now Trumpâs America. He controls everything from here on forward. He has won this campaign in such a decisive fashion that he owes no one anything. He has
media
Huffington Post, July 2015 [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-note-about-our-coverage-of-donald-trumps-campaign_us_55a8fc9ce4b0896514d0fd66?section=politics] : > After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we wonât report on Trumpâs campaign as part of The Huffington Postâs political coverage. Instead,
interviews
A touching moment in Rachel Sylvester & Alice Thomsonâs interview with Alan Johnson for The Times [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-have-got-to-recapture-the-labour-party-otherwise-its-dead-and-finished-3r30ghb7g?shareToken=9c54c79e70b7b50cc50cdd6643c1e7e0] : > When people ask him how many children he has, he always says four â sometimes even making up a job for Natalie. âItâs
brexit
From my good friend and occasional colleague Matt Buck [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=255089044859400&set=a.176948532673452.1073741828.100010749194090&type=3&theater] at Drawnalism [http://drawnalism.com]