Bitter Fruit: Marshall McLuhan and the Rise of Fake News
McLuhan’s phenomenal success stemmed from being in the right place at the right time.
Graham Majin
· 16 min read
Media
A collection of 59 posts
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
Scapegoating the Private School Boy
The Private School Boy is an object of endless horror and fascination. Every few years, the media outrage cycle will crest towards another scandal—a leaked video of a sexist chant, allegations of sexual misconduct or orgiastic excess—and the discourse machine will dissect the sexual mores of elite teenagers
Kasumi Borczyk
· 7 min read
The Vox Formula: Telling Privileged People What They Already Believe
The confusion of having an elite, educated status with having information, facts, and knowledge should by now be familiar—it is a move that journalists have made repeatedly to capture a high-end market and then clothe that market-driven decision as a journalistic value.
Batya Ungar-Sargon
· 8 min read
Bad News—A Review
A review of Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy by Batya Ungar-Sargon. Encounter, 312 pages. (October 2021) In Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Batya Ungar-Sargon, the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek (where, full disclosure, she has published two of my essays), argues that elite left-wing
Kevin Mims
· 20 min read
Scandinavian Airlines: Get Woke, Cry Wolf
The message, in short: Nothing is genuinely Scandinavian. Be it meatballs or paternity leave, everything comes from other countries.
Paulina Neuding
· 5 min read
As Newspapers Fade, Journalists Are Finding New Ways to Cover Local News
Less local reporting means less transparency, less informed voters, and lower levels of civic engagement.
Alexandra Hudson
· 7 min read
Journalists Need to Do a Better Job Matching 'Experts' to Their Actual Expertise
By simply letting experts see how they are about to be quoted, everyone will end up happier.
Brian Kalt
· 7 min read
Inside the Woke Actors Studio: How I Trained Future Doctors to Police Their Pronouns
But pulling off the kind of manipulative narcissism that privileges ideological dogma over real community health needs—that’s the mark of a true pro.
Anna Slatz
· 6 min read
The Bolivarian God That Failed
The available scientific and statistical evidence (not to mention common sense) weighs strongly against belief in bodily resurrection from the dead.
Clifton Ross
· 21 min read
The Institutionalisation of Social Justice
Last year, Google engineer James Damore was fired after an internal memo he wrote was leaked to technology website Gizmodo, causing an uproar within the company.
Uri Harris
· 12 min read
The Comment Awards Fiasco
That seems itself to be an example of divisiveness and a snub to one form of diversity: that of diverse opinion.
Claire Fox
· 9 min read
Hashtags and Terror Narratives in Toronto
Any place can seem ‘no go’ to those who’ve never gone.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Glenn Greenwald Is Wrong About 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