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Category Archives: Journalism
The “Facts” of El Salvador According to Objective and New Journalism
Professor Sandra Braman published in 1984: Since the 1960s, each side in the debate over new journalism has accused the other of projecting a fictional view of reality. “Objective” journalists attack colleagues they call “new journalists” for distorting facts by … Continue reading
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Reporter
From the New York Review of Books: * A merit of Reporter is the way in which it divulges Hersh’s trade secrets: Be a bookworm (“read before you write”); work the graveyard shift (late one evening in 1967, he allowed … Continue reading
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Trump & TV
From the New York Review of Books: * For though Trump is an attention guzzler—he wants an audience to notice him every hour of every day—he has a smaller need than the average politician for wide popularity. An extra skin … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Autobiography from an Abandoned Autobiography
Janet Malcolm writes: Another obstacle in the way of the journalist turned autobiographer is the pose of objectivity into which journalists habitually, almost mechanically, fall when they write. The “I” of journalism is a kind of ultra-reliable narrator and impossibly … Continue reading
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Where Do I Trust The New York Times? (4-20-21)
Martin Gurri writes: Slouching Toward Post-Journalism: The New York Times and other elite media outlets have openly embraced advocacy over reporting. Traditional newspapers never sold news; they sold an audience to advertisers. To a considerable degree, this commercial imperative determined … Continue reading
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