- Confirmation journalism and the death penalty
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Iterative journalism is like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland: “Sentence first, verdict after.” The Elements of Journalism praises David Protess’s project that railroaded a mentally disabled man into prison for fourteen years, because it served their bias. - The Elements of Journalism
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Now that the Internet empowers readers to check the veracity of news reports, journalists need to come up with more and better justifications for their bias. - False positives, the Internet, and the grievance media
- The ability of the modern mass media to search the entire population ensures that most stories are wrong.
- The gullible media and the chocolate factory
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Journalists, because of their background and temperament, are specially unsuited to report on science.
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- Have Journalists Proved Too Immature and Unprofessional To Use Twitter Without Slandering Children for Retweets?
- “As Mollie Hemingway has said several times, Twitter did improve transparency, and that transparency in turn reduced trust in media.”
