Archive for Journalism
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A trio of economists at Cornell and Indiana University-Purdue have done an as-yet-unpublished study that makes the following claims: As...