If I Ran a Newspaper….

Well, yes, fat chance. But if I did, here’s how I’d try to save it.

“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.” 
 — Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)

Our problem isn’t ‘fake news.’ Our problems are trust and manipulation.

“Fake news” is merely a symptom of greater social ills. Our real problems: trust…

Trump & the Press: A Murder-Suicide Pact

Hillary Clinton and Journalism’s Failures

‘If it’s all my fault, then the media doesn’t need to do any soul searching.’

The Problem With Stories

In journalism school and newsrooms, we teach as an advanced skill the ability to know what a story is: what…

Death to the Mass(es)!

Long Live the Informed Citizen!

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…