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Category Archives: Journalism
The Strange Death Of Danny Casolaro
Ron Rosenbaum wrote for Vanity Fair in 1991: I believe that, in a sense, Danny was correct when he worried he might have been “targeted” with a “slow-acting brain virus.” Not exactly the organic virus he worried about, not Mad … Continue reading
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The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility
In this 2014 book from Oxford University Press, academics Jeffrey M. Berry and Sarah Sobieraj note: * Outrage discourse involves efforts to provoke emotional responses (e.g., anger, fear, moral indignation) from the audience through the use of overgeneralizations, sensationalism, misleading … Continue reading
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Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States
Political scientist Dannagal Goldthwaite Young writes in this 2019 book: * In their 2014 book The Outrage Industry, Jeffrey Berry and Sarah Sobieraj chronicle the growth of a new genre of political programming through the 2000s; programming that places a … Continue reading
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Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
The world is a big oozing mess, but to create meaning and order in our lives, we develop and sanctify boundaries between the clean and the dirty, the heroic and the cowardly. Here are some excerpts from this 2023 book … Continue reading
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All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists
Journalism is judgment about what matters. It is the primary way we understand the wider world around us. This judgment springs from the particular hero system that made Russiagate the most important news story in America from 2016 to 2019 … Continue reading
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