New Orleans If you live by the sword, you will die by the sword. That’s a very old saying. Megyn Kelly seems poised to understand that even if the proverbial pen is mightier than the sword – or at least used to be – you can still fall the same way. It is not a …
Tag: journalism
Fake News and a Field Guide to Lies
New Orleans You have to love headline news about fake news. Usually fake news is in the stories, not the headlines. We all have to appreciate the irony contained in articles in almost any newspaper, especially opinion pieces, about fake news when there is no disclosure of inherent biases contained in any of them. Nonetheless, it …
Viral News, Activist Citizen Journalists, and Wikileaks
New Orleans Increasingly the definitions of journalism are devolving into a simple proposition: news is where you find it, and a journalist is whoever might have brought the story to you. Old school journalists, newspapers trying to hold on to their business model, and news and broadcast institutions long dedicated to acting as voices for …