Category Archives: Journalism

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 thing we use to see the world beyond our experience. This judgment springs from the particular hero system that made Russiagate the most important news story in America from 2016 … Continue reading

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The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism

Adam Nagourney writes in this 2023 book: * September 20, 1972… [New York Times Executive Editor A.M.] Rosenthal sent a note to David R. Jones, the new national editor. “We seem to be taking a beating on the Watergate case … Continue reading

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Democracy Dies In Darkness (12-27-23)

01:00 Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15375804:00 Marty Baron on leading The Washington Post and covering President Trump , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGie7DGC5p022:00 Stephen J James joins, https://twitter.com/MuskMaximalist36:20 The falling out between Charles Johnson and Richard Spencer42:00 Black-pilled freaks1:24:45 … Continue reading

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Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post

Marty Baron, former Editor of the Post, writes in this 2023 book: * As our visit commenced, at seven p.m. The Post published a report that was likely to secure our No. 1 spot [on Trump’s enemies list] for a … Continue reading

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