A collection of 17 posts
Jason Zengerle’s new book about the degradation of a once-gifted writer and broadcaster also illustrates the downward trajectory of the entire news industry during the same period.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Graham Majin about the recent scandal at the BBC, and the need for reporters to prevent the ‘poison of narrative’ from corrupting their craft
Bari Weiss’s eleventh-hour cancellation of a 60 Minutes exposé on migrants imprisoned in El Salvador raises troubling questions about editorial independence at CBS News.
The obvious benefits of open debate and free dissent are too often confused with destructive contrarianism.
A former BBC journalist explains how the corporation discarded impartial journalism and why we need a news revolution.
How the media perpetuates Gaza’s suffering.
What the Hughes/Smith debate tells us about the podcast era.
Angertainment capitalises on ordinary democratic conflict by selling it back to us as spectacle.
How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.
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.
What we lose when the rigour of science and journalism gives way to an aural and visual narrative culture.
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.
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.
What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems?
A welter of factual errors and misleading judgments has produced a distorted description of the 1948 War.