Knowledge is Power: Protecting ourselves from “Fake News”

Knowledge is Power: Protecting ourselves from “Fake News”

—January 2018 What is the truth about journalism? Journalism is always a bit of a mess. People’s memories are usually flawed. Eyewitnesses differ about the same event. The moment a story passes from one person to the next, it changes. This is only human. And then...
The Death of Newspapers?

The Death of Newspapers?

Why should we worry about the death of newspapers? Reading any newspaper is pretty much a two-dimensional, impersonal, top-down, one-way, and often stupefying experience. News reports are infuriatingly self-referential and incomplete. If they stir us up they don’t...