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Garbage Journalism, Squared
photo by David Farré Earlier this week a friend of mine who reads this blog forwarded me The New York Times’ story “Donald Trump Used Legally Dubious Method to Avoid Paying Taxes.” I know he strongly...
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The Times Chills Out – About Itself
photo by John Wisniewski The calendar says June, but the snowflakes are accumulating on the West Side of Manhattan – specifically in the newsroom of The New York Times. Reporters, editors, columnists...
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Palin’s Winning Case Against The Times
photo by Gage Skidmore It is almost impossible for a high-profile public figure, and especially a former official, to win a libel suit in the United States. But Sarah Palin could conceivably win her...
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The Tax Reform Bonus
photo by Mike Mozart Walmart became the latest and largest U.S. company to announce significant pay boosts for employees as a direct result of the new tax law, a pattern that had earlier led The New...
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Boies Leaves A Trail Of Bad Blood
David Boies at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University in 2008. Photo by Doc Searls. For a long time, David Boies was more of an icon than a lawyer, famed for his advocacy...
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The Murphy’s Law Of Journalism
photo by Kris Krug Call it Murphy’s Law of Journalism: When your “anonymous” source tells you one thing, which you report without corroboration, only to have the same “anonymous” source say the...
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News Masquerading As Opinion
photo by Jason Kuffer There was a time when any newspaper editor would have recognized that a group of government employees conspiring to thwart the president in whose administration they served is the...
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How Malicious Must Actual Malice Be?
Sarah Palin in 2016. Photo by Gage Skidmore. It is highly unusual for an American politician to bring a libel case to trial against a national news outlet, and practically unheard-of for the politician...
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Catholicism And The ‘American Ethos’
President Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett, Sept. 26, 2020. Photo courtesy the White House. Joe Biden’s Roman Catholic faith is, along with his working-class roots, central to his political brand....
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The Not-The-Trump-Tax Papers
Trump Tower, New York City. Photo by Flickr user nhadatvideo, licensed under CC BY. Imagine great news exposes like the Pentagon Papers (1971) or the Panama Papers (2016), but without either the papers...
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