A leading British newspaper is “sorry not sorry” over claims that global warming really isn’t that bad
Do you like fake news? The Mail on Sunday sure does. Back in February, the UK’s second-largest Sunday newspaper printed a contentious story by David Rose, claiming that global warming data had… Read more »
Detroit now has a chief storyteller because we all keep getting it wrong
Detroit is perhaps the quintessential American city. The birthplace of our automotive industry and Motown, the city was a beacon of American work ethic and prosperity until about a decade ago,… Read more »
“Anti-fascism is fundamentally an activity of self-defense.”
“The anti-fascist argument more recently is that you don’t let fascism take even the first step towards normalizing itself, towards ascending the ladder toward power, because once that kind of slippery… Read more »
Good news, everyone: Bill O’Reilly’s book sales are down
At any other time in this country’s history, it might have been the biggest story of the year: the firing, and subsequent fall, of Fox News millionaire poster-boy, serial sexual… Read more »
My news, your news, their news… But whose news can we trust?
We’ve written a lot about fake news in the wake of Donald Trump’s ascent to the presidency. But guess what — we’ve got more! A couple of weeks ago, the Reuters Institute released their Digital… Read more »
What exactly is the point of interviewing Alex Jones?
She’s only been in the the job for a few weeks now, but Megyn Kelly, the bright future of our liberal media and newly minted star of NBC’s news programming,… Read more »
Roger Ailes dies, his legacy sadly lives on
Did you hear? That Roger Ailes died last week? You may have missed it, as it happened on the same day that Chris Cornell—a fine singer and songwriter, an enduring… Read more »
Employment of climate change denier Bret Stephens prompts New York Times subscribers to get their news elsewhere
Bret Stephens, the new opinion columnist at the New York Times, has some opinions about stuff. For one, he doesn’t really believe that climate change is real. He’s also been… Read more »
Local media outlets keep getting swallowed up by conglomerates, and that’s bad for all of us
Back in a more innocent time—August of 2016—John Oliver did a story on the importance of local media. He talked about what would happen when news outlets discovered that posting… Read more »
Tor will start publishing experimental stuff — first up, a serialized podcast
On May 1, Tor Books announced the creation of Tor Labs, an “imprint” dedicated to new kinds of storytelling. For the skeptical out there, this one doesn’t appear to be like other half-cocked… Read more »