Politics
Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
Is Stop Funding Hate an attack on free speech? Paid Members Public
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 O’Neill for The Spectator: > SFH’s agitation to pull ads from newspapers is not some simple, good, happy-clappy act of consumer
The new, hyperpartisan media Paid Members Public
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 today’s 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
About that 1998 Trump interview… Paid Members Public
We're all prone to confirmation bias. Even me.
Trump's America Paid Members Public
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 Trump’s 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
Trump: from sideshow to president Paid Members Public
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 won’t report on Trump’s campaign as part of The Huffington Post’s political coverage. Instead,
The human behind the politician mask Paid Members Public
A touching moment in Rachel Sylvester & Alice Thomson’s 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 — sometimes even making up a job for Natalie. “It’s
A passing remark on #Brexit Paid Members Public
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]
Fake New York Times story gets over 50,000 views Paid Members Public
Fake New York Times story gets over 50,000 views [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/us/fake-new-york-times-article-claims-elizabeth-warren-endorsed-bernie-sanders.html] And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need to teach critical thinking: > A webpage that masqueraded as a New York Times article and claimed that Senator Elizabeth Warren
