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No love lost for the “mainstream media”
David Taylor is fed up with the mainstream media. The 53-year-old Texan with long blond hair and dressed in cowboy garb lives with his pit bull and shih tzu in an old racquetball court in the town of San Marcos. He works in “property” and is a huge fan of Donald...
No prizes for being second with the story
The only thing social media can’t be blamed for: our own errors in the lemming rush to “break” a news story. This, however, is nothing new and has existed for centuries.
Fire and water helped shape Chicago
We visited nine cities from coast to coast in the past eight weeks – even more, counting Ely and New Ulm, Minn. None of the others made an everlasting impression on me the way Chicago has. That skyline is hard to forget. And it’s not just the skyline, it’s the story...
Which came first, the tech or the grotesque?
As the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump continues to expand, one question comes to mind. Did Silicon Valley put Trump in office somehow? Is social media to blame for this strange presidency, or is the problem much deeper? Facebook, Twitter and to some...
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2020 World Press Institute Fellowship Program Postponed
The Board of Directors of the World Press Institute (WPI) has decided to postpone the start of the next WPI fellowship program in the United States because of the uncertainties and difficulties created by the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
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Staff writer at @TheAtlantic & WPI board member James Fallows wrote this piece on press coverage of Trump.
(He’ll also be our speaker for 2 upcoming webinars about the 2020 U.S. presidential election, 10/13, 10AM EST & 11/10, 10AM EST. Save the dates!)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/media-mistakes/616222/
Nice to see Al-Jazeera picked up some of my @dpa_intl report this morning over the #TRESemme furore here in #SouthAfrica https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1302951892931182592