One media professor is taking our country’s reluctance to discern critical information to heart, and teaching students how to detect fake news in social media and more traditional media.  For… Read more »

Annually in the UK, the Collins English Dictionary, published by HarperCollins, pick their ‘word of the year’. They have been producing dictionaries since 1819 and currently maintain a database of… Read more »

Remember when there were all those books being published that had the word “girl” in the title? Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Girl on the Train, Gone Girl. (No judgment… Read more »

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 »

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to identify our most ridiculous citizens, it’ll be easy: just look for the people so hellbent on freedom that they… Read more »

As Donald Trump continues to use Twitter to give definition to the word smear, two trends of thought preoccupying the right-minded in the book industry collided the other day on… Read more »

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 »

Media giant Gannett has become so concerned about the number of fake Facebook users descending on its pages that the company has turned to the FBI for help. As USA Today’s Elizabeth… Read more »

On February 6, Donald Trump woke up and tweeted out what may be the purest distillation yet of his definition of “fake news”: “Any negative polls are fake news, just… Read more »

The following words were, for the most part, not exactly uttered by the president of the United States yesterday. My fellow Americans! I write today to share my tremendous and very… Read more »