journalism

Media Contagion

Latter-day journalism is helping to realize its own false narratives.

Steve Salerno

24 Apr 2023 · 14 min read

Low Life and High Style

Cruel, indiscreet, misanthropic and miserable, columnist Jeffrey Bernard nevertheless produced some bracing and scabrously funny journalism.

Robin Ashenden

9 Feb 2023 · 13 min read

At Last, Mainstream Journalists Are Starting to Report the Truth About Youth Gender Clinics

The New York Times and Guardian are the latest progressive institutions to scrutinize the safety of so-called ‘gender-affirming’ medical interventions.

Bernard Lane

6 Dec 2022 · 9 min read

The Bobos at 22

In 2000, David Brooks foretold an American utopia that never arrived.

Kevin Mims

10 Nov 2022 · 16 min read

Podcast # 194: Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did the Media Get This Blockbuster Story So Wrong?

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to National Post reporter (and popular Substack author [https://therealstory.substack.com/]) Terry Glavin about the blockbuster 2021 claim [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mass-grave-residential-schools.html] that hundreds of murdered Indigenous children had been found in unmarked graves, the process

Quillette

3 Aug 2022 · 1 min read

I Signed Up to Study Journalism. What They Taught Me Was Activism

Even by the hyper-progressive standards of the Canadian education sector, Ryerson University in Toronto has distinguished itself as being unusually energetic in its social justice messaging. Last spring, Indigenous activists destroyed [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/egerton-ryerson-statue-caledonia-land-back-lane-1.6059513] the statue of the university’s namesake, Egerton Ryerson, on

Jonathan Bradley

5 Mar 2022 · 11 min read

Bitter Fruit: Marshall McLuhan and the Rise of Fake News

In Orson Welles’s classic movie Citizen Kane [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/], the eponymous hero publishes a statement of principles on the front page of his newspaper, “I’ll provide the people of this city with a daily paper that will tell all the news honestly. ... They're going