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The journalism of expectations
Beside journalism’s addiction to prediction lies another comorbidity: its presumption to set expectations. Of course, we are well familiar with this co-occuring condition in coverage of politics,...
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Who’s breaking the news?
This will not make some people happy. Here is a statement I submitted to my senator, Cory Booker, as a member of a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights,...
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Where is our moral line in Ukraine?
https://twitter.com/pollari_tapani/status/1500063181569466370 A thread I posted on Twitter, asking questions: It is likely a mistake to think aloud here on Twitter but I will confess I am unsure what...
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Concede defeat to bad speech
What if we concede that the battle against “bad speech” is lost? Disinformation and lies will exist no matter what we do. Those who want such speech will always be able to say it and find it. Murdoch...
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Toward a journalistic ethic of citation
After The New York Times published its extensive report on the history of Haiti’s impoverishment at the hands of its overthrown colonial overlords, a robust debate broke out between academic and...
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How harmful is it?
As the UK gets ready to regulate harmful (including legal but harmful) speech online, the appointed regulator, Ofcom, released its annual survey of users. It’s informative to see just how concerned UK...
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The story media miss: themselves
Media are not merely observers in the story of democracy’s demise; they are players. Media require coverage. Who will cover media? Not media. Then no one. The New York Times and The Washington Post...
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What is happening to TV? If AI made TV: I asked Dreamstudio for an old TV set with Shakespeare in a sitcom TV has had more supposed golden ages than the Queen had bling: Sid Cesar’s brief blip during...
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Publishers’ political blackmail
Senator Amy Klobuchar’s oxymoronically titled Journalism Competition and Preservation Act — it might better be named the Journalism Lobby Blackmail Bill — was just dealt a kick to the kidneys by a...
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We, the tweeters
The New European commissioned me to write this explanation for folks over there explaining what is behind Musk’s claims of free-speech absolutism. Elon Musk, recent convert to the cult of far-right...
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Writing as exclusion
DALL-E In The Gutenberg Parenthesis (my upcoming book), I ask whether, “in bringing his inner debates to print, Montaigne raised the stakes for joining the public conversation, requiring that one be a...
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Journalism is lossy compression
There has been much praise in human chat — Twitter — about Ted Chiang’s New Yorker piece on machine chat — ChatGPT. Because New Yorker; because Ted Chiang. He makes a clever comparison between lossy...
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Darrell V. Jarvis, 1926-2023
My father died on Saturday, April 8. He lived 97 years. Until struck with COVID, he had never had to stay in a hospital. In the last three months, he mustered all his strength to overcome the virus’...
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Trafficking in traffic
Ben Smith picked just the right title for his saga of BuzzFeed, Gawker, and The Huffington Post: Traffic (though in the end, he credits the able sensationalist Michael Wolff with the choice). For what...
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ChatGPT goes to court
I attended a show-cause hearing for two attorneys and their firm who submitted nonexistent citations and then entirely fictitious cases manufactured by ChatGPT to federal court, and then tried to...
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