“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.” — Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)
“Fake news” is merely a symptom of greater social ills. Our real problems: trust…
I was about to write that for the good of the nation and the world it is high time that someone in psychiatry or psychology break the Goldwater Rule and diagnose Donald Trump’s mental illness — not to feed jokes but to grapple with a profoundly serious…
When the nation’s representatives pass sweeping tax legislation that the majority of voters do not want and that will in the long-run harm most citizens — helping instead corporations, a small, rich elite (including donors), and the politicians themselves — there can be only one…
‘If it’s all my fault, then the media doesn’t need to do any soul searching.’
In journalism school and newsrooms, we teach as an advanced skill the ability to know what a story is: what…
In the tweets above, leading journalists Ezra Klein and Anne Applebaum reflect the accepted wisdom, raison d’être, and foundational myth of their field: that journalism exists to align the nation upon a common…
Storyful and Moat — together with CUNY and our new News Integrity Initiative*— have announced a collaboration to help advertisers and platforms avoid associating with and…
Oh, the irony of Franklin Foer, creature of mass media, elite of elite media, complaining that “Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality.” Mass media — by definition — never granted you your individuality. It treated you like everyone else, all the same. That was its…
These were the top 10 stories published by Whither news? in 2017. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2017 by using the calendar at the top of this page.