And when you have a media that is dependent on the Government for its very existence, how can you trust them to hold that Government to account?
We know that twitter’s moderation teams tend to be young graduates, few if any of them with journalism training. It is abundantly clear that many of them make decisions based on vibes, not evidence.
But that poses a problem for journalists, because unlike the scientists, the journalists are sure. They’re sure a disaster is coming, and they need you to act.
It should not fall to Gript – a tiny outlet with four or five staff – to report these things
UPDATE, 1.25pm: Newstalk, since this story was published, appear to have re-instated the original interview with Ewan MacKenna in full. This poses several questions that are quite serious: If, for example, the defamation lawyers working for Newstalk had insisted that the section be removed, there would be no reason to re-instate it. The decision to […]
Denver Post columnist Jon Caldara has been fired from the Colorado newspaper for denouncing transgender ideology in schools and arguing that there are only two sexes.
You might say, paraphrasing Dickens, it is the best of times and it is the worst of times. Freedom of expression, the freedom to speak your mind and let your voice be heard is one of the great goods in the firmament of good things available to the human race. We have never had greater potential […]
There is careless and sloppy journalism and there is cold calculated malicious journalism. Sadly both fit into the spectrum to which Janet Malcolm notoriously drew attention in a New Yorker essay thirty years ago when she wrote: ”Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what […]
Journalist Michael Kirke speaks about fake news and thought crimes and how the model of journalism has changed from reporting to activism.