The Problem with Alt. Media
What the Hughes/Smith debate tells us about the podcast era.
Matt Johnson
· 14 min read
Media Analysis
A collection of 11 posts
Rage Is Now the Machine
Angertainment capitalises on ordinary democratic conflict by selling it back to us as spectacle.
George Case
· 7 min read
Purity, Profit, and Politics
How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.
Steve Salerno
· 22 min read
Gonzo Bros
Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.
Frank Celia
· 29 min read
Feelings, Facts, and Our Crisis of Truth
What we lose when the rigour of science and journalism gives way to an aural and visual narrative culture.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
Spurious Research as Tendentious Propaganda
A scholarly journal published pro-Palestinian activism dressed as dispassionate media analysis—and then refused to retract the paper after its shoddy methodology was pointed out.
Oliver Kamm
· 12 min read
REDnote and the TikTok Refugees
If they manage to stay on REDnote long enough, former TikTokers will surely begin to notice that all is not as it seems in modern China.
Aaron Sarin
· 6 min read
How the Media Broke the Immigration Debate
What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems?
Tomás Sidenfaden
· 11 min read
The NYT Misrepresents the History of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
A welter of factual errors and misleading judgments has produced a distorted description of the 1948 War.
Benny Morris
· 12 min read
Podcast #173: Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Growing Gulf Between Ordinary Americans and the Progressive Journalists Who Cover Them
The culture war and the fight over liberal media bias.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 21 min read
Glenn Greenwald is Wrong Again on Charlie Hebdo
Having falsely established that Charlie Hebdo were just picking on Muslims, he can lay the charge of hypocrisy upon anybody that has ever objected to any other speech.
David Paxton
· 8 min read