Archive for Journalism
A set of links about what’s been up with the defamation lawsuits against Alex Jones over the past year-plus. Content warning for references (throughout these articles) to Sandy Hook and to Jones’s utterly despicable and completely false claims that the attack was faked. Also content warning for prominent photos of Jones, sometimes apparently in the […]
I read several news articles this evening about the White House being in chaos. That’s become a popular and frequent genre of news article this past year or so; I generally try to avoid indulging in too much schadenfreude, but I still get a certain frisson from these kinds of articles. Especially when otherwise journalistically-neutral-tone […]
An example of how news gets distorted: DeepMind, which is part of Alphabet (Google's parent company), published an interesting and...
I've seen several potentially misleading graphs in articles lately, so here's a reminder of a couple of common y-axis issues:...
I recently happened across a bit of a great This American Life episode while driving, and later downloaded it and...
I often find myself reading a web page with no conscious idea of what site it's on or who the...
A long discussion of anonymity and pseudonymity.
A trio of economists at Cornell and Indiana University-Purdue have done an as-yet-unpublished study that makes the following claims: As...