Harmful speech as the new porn (20/11/19 12:17)
In 1968, Lyndon Johnson appointed a National Commission on Obscenity and Pornography to investiga...

Polls subvert democracy: Media’s willful erasure of Kamala Harris’ campaign (03/11/19 15:49)
It is journalistic heresy that I abandon the myth of objectivity and publicly support candidates....

Unpopular decisions (31/10/19 14:02)
I will please no one with this post about Facebook’s and Twitter’s decisions regarding political ...

For a National Journalism Jury (27/09/19 21:01)
For the last year, I’ve been engaged in a project to aggregate signals of quality in news so plat...

‘Decomputerize?’ Over My Dead Laptop! (19/09/19 19:23)
This week, I wrote a dystopia of the dystopians, an extrapolation of current wishes among the ant...

How the Dystos Defeated the Technos: A dystopian vision (18/09/19 00:09)
History 302 — Fall semester, 2032 — Final essay [This is not prediction about tomorrow; it is ext...

Worries (18/08/19 19:39)
Professor Rosen gave me homework. He told me he wanted me to prepare a list like his, of the top ...

Bad headline, small changes at the New York Times (15/08/19 22:20)
Anxiety over the core audience's rising influence helps explain events after 'Trump Urges Unity v...