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about the bleating idiocy of American mass media in the era after 9/11 and the run-up to the Iraq War. In it, he offers a thought experiment that has stuck with me. Imagine, he says, being at a party, with the normal give and take of conversation between generally genial, informed people. And then “a guy walks in with a megaphone. He’s not the smar... See more

Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous

We were that desperate for a white man to not be trash that we treated mediocrity like it was a masterpiece.

Ijeoma Oluo • Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

The Times, Peretti allowed, has since refined a very good subscription business model, which has allowed it to make better journalism by hiring more and better talent. This is not a controversial opinion. But the next part may be: The New York Times, Peretti argued, can’t really be called “the paper of record” anymore — because of that same subscri... See more

Vox • BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on why he bought HuffPost and why the New York Times can’t be "the paper of record"

Straight news is boring, so the legacy media adds salt and sugar to the content to make it more interesting

Balaji S. Srinivasan • Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519

But the real scandal is another case of selective editing by the media: they edited out remarks made by Hillary Clinton, who had also referred to the attack as a bombing—just like Trump.

Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

News Media Musings

Jon Carlaw • 1 card

“What’s true? What’s false? In case you haven’t noticed, the world has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of piecing together the truth based on observed data. Reality is too complicated and scary for that. Instead, it’s way easier to ignore all data that doesn’t fit your preconceptions and believe all data that does. I believe what

Nathan Hill • The Nix: A novel

Why I’m bullish about Scott Galloway

Philip Soriano • 1 card

régime d’opinion sur un régime d’information. Au fond, « TPMP » fonctionne comme le sophisme du « faux dilemme », ce raisonnement fallacieux qui consiste, pour discuter ou résoudre un problème, à avancer deux solutions comme si elles étaient les seules possibles, en invisibilisant la gamme des positions intermédiaires et modérées.