Category Archives: Journalism

The Megaphone in One Graph

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer: “The New York Times has a tool called Chronicle for telling you what percentage of Times article have included a particular word over the centuries. Here we see “racism” in green, “sexism” in black, and “transgender” in blue, … Continue reading →

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David Samuels on Obama and Rev. Wright

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: From the Washington Post: Did the White House know what David Samuels thought about the Iran deal? By Erik Wemple May 9 at 6:02 PM The White House has had to answer some uncomfortable questions over the … Continue reading →

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WP: Police report reflects the ugliness of the Trump era

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Luke Ford

Can you imagine a man filing a police report over this? Do people on the left get more hate than people on the right? Which group is more likely to file a police report over these threats? When was the … Continue reading →

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Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Luke Ford

Since its inception, I’ve noticed that Facebook highlights stories that tend to slant left. I never recall it highlighting something that would make a right-wing politician or pundit look good. It prefers instead to bash people such as Donald Trump … Continue reading →

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WP: Why the Ben Rhodes profile in the New York Times Magazine is just gross

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Luke Ford

Washington Post: Absurdity, self-regard, hypocrisy, chumminess between writer and subject — it’s all there. I just don’t know anymore where David Samuels begins and Ben Rhodes ends. Samuels’s massive New York Times magazine profile of Rhodes, President Obama’s deputy national … Continue reading →

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