Antizionist City
A community that embraces a set of shared beliefs is not necessarily a bad thing, but the value of solidarity depends entirely on the merits of the cause in question.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
Media
A collection of 62 posts
No, the Media Isn’t Responsible for Jason Arday’s Suicide
The disgraced academic was a pathological liar and lifelong con artist whose misdeeds were covered up for years by self-serving academic administrators. Exposing this kind of rot in elite institutions is our job.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
The Data a Flemish TV Network Didn't Want You to See
How I read a confidential memo on live television—and what it reveals about ideological bias.
Maarten Boudry
· 10 min read
Hasan Piker Is the Enemy
If liberals wish to forge an alliance of convenience with a socialist and apologist for jihadist violence, they will be betraying the very values they profess to uphold.
Brian Stewart
· 10 min read
The Many Faces of Tucker Carlson
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.
Graham Daseler
· 14 min read
Podcast #321: Understanding Journalistic Groupthink
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
Quillette, Graham Majin
· 2 min read
A Story Spiked
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.
Cathy Young
· 18 min read
Heterodox Orthodoxy
The obvious benefits of open debate and free dissent are too often confused with destructive contrarianism.
George Case
· 9 min read
A Journalism of Deception
A former BBC journalist explains how the corporation discarded impartial journalism and why we need a news revolution.
Graham Majin
· 15 min read
Starving for Headlines
How the media perpetuates Gaza’s suffering.
Aaron Travis
· 10 min read
Owned by the Audience
Online audiences have become increasingly radicalised by predatory algorithms pushing conspiratorial, schizophrenic narratives and content creators are rewarded for feeding into them.
Corey Walker
· 5 min read
The Problem with Alt. Media
What the Hughes/Smith debate tells us about the podcast era.
Matt Johnson
· 14 min read
The Media War on Israel
HonestReporting’s Executive Director, Gil Hoffman, joins Pamela Paresky to discuss how the global media has misrepresented Israel since the October 7 Hamas attacks—fueling a narrative war with real-world consequences.
Pamela Paresky
· 13 min read
Rage Is Now the Machine
Angertainment capitalises on ordinary democratic conflict by selling it back to us as spectacle.
George Case
· 7 min read
The Murder of Iryna Zarutska
Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?
Jukka Savolainen
· 8 min read