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Category Archives: Journalism
The Rat-a-tat of the Machine Gun of Love (12-25-22)
01:00 Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146522 04:00 Frank Harris, My Life and Loves, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_and_Loves 07:00 Welcome to BazBall: Can England really fly?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgcJz-uuDms 08:00 What is Bazball? https://www.sportstiger.com/news/what-is-the-new-cricketing-term-bazball 09:00 England’s cricket manager is … Continue reading
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Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy
Here are some highlights from this 2022 book by journalist and professor Amy Gajda: * [Alexander] Hamilton’s response to it all was a ninety-five-page booklet complaining about his own loss of privacy. He found “mortifying disappointment” in Callender’s “Scandal-Club” publication … Continue reading
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NYRB: To what extent did newspapers influence public opinion in the US and Britain before and during World War II?
From the New York Review of Books: * In The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler, Kathryn S. Olmsted claims that these monstrous moguls exercised a clear and malign influence on American and British policy, and that their … Continue reading
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The News Is What Bureaucracies Report
If you can’t base your news on a bureaucratic report, you’re swimming outside the normal news business (because you can’t normally get sued for reporting what a bureaucracy reports). I’m reading Paul Pringle’s 2022 book (Bad City: Peril and Power … Continue reading
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How The News Differs From Reality
In 1984, Communications professor Sandra Braman wrote that news is “the passage of bureaucratically recognized events through administrative procedures.” At the top of WSJ.com right now is the headline, “Recession Fears Loom as U.S. Economy Contracts Again.” According to the … Continue reading
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