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Marc Andreessen Reflections, Roe v. Wade Overturn and Where We Go Next + the Case for Suits and Ties

the-realignment.simplecast.com

In May 2016, an ex–Facebook employee was anonymously quoted on Gizmodo, a design, technology, and science fiction website, saying he was part of a project that “routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential ‘trending’ news section.” Several people who were reportedly employed at Facebook

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

The Elements of Journalism,

Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse

Instead of understanding journalism as either a collection of neutral entities who process unassailable fact into truth or as partisan operators hacking away at an agenda, we should see the endeavor as encompassing a spectrum of ideas and opinions that approximate or come as close as possible to the truth.

Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

For all our infamous failings, journalists once had some toughness to them. We were supposed to be willing to go to jail for sources we might not even like, and fly off to war zones or disaster areas without question when editors asked. It was also once considered a virtue to flout the disapproval of colleagues to fight for stories we believed in (... See more

Matt Taibbi • The American Press Is Destroying Itself - Reporting by Matt Taibbi

Amid incidents like these arousing widespread mistrust of the news, NBC News anchor Brian Williams admits that a war story he’s told for twelve years

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

Journalists in the digital age should, within their means, enable safe spaces for public debate—acting as conversation leaders,87 information verifiers and amplifiers of varied perspectives.

Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse

check on him, he’s a bona fide journalist in good standing.

John le Carré • The Constant Gardener (Penguin Modern Classics)

investigative journalism

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