For far too long, the public has suffered under the tyranny of dueling narratives served up by one or another interest group seeking self-serving shortcuts around nuanced truths, all the while shortchanging the clarity of important debates about the biggest issues of the day — from health care reform to defense policy to education. Journalists have too often perpetuated the false notion that seemingly any issue can be cleanly divided into right and left, conservative and liberal, because these labels make our work simpler, supplying us with a handy structure we can impose at will on typically uncooperative facts.
“Beyond Left and Right: it’s about reality”, Huffington Post
(I for one welcome our new 1990s-era AOL overlords)
(I for one welcome our new 1990s-era AOL overlords)
I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by [Fox News president] Roger Ailes’s horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to.
Rupert Murdoch’s son in law Matthew Freud, quoted in yesterday’s New York Times.
Not to nit pick, but Barney Frank is a DEMOCRAT. It’s a pretty important distinction, particularly when you’re talking about a bill to regulate financial markets. Some idiot at The Age must have misunderstood what “Rep.” means when they were posting the original Washington Post article to www.theage.com.au.
Don’t these people watch The West Wing?
While it’s tempting to call them ‘baristi’ because of the Italian roots, the plural of ‘barista’ is ‘journalism majors.’
Fake AP Stylebook (via nerdshares) (via somethingchanged)
reblogged from somethingchanged
