Paul Krugman has a column about the right-wing attacks on Niel deGrasse Tyson. I think Krugman is an important intellectual source of valid data and argument and I respect him a great deal. However, in the case of this column, I am surprised that Krugman would address Tyson as “Mr.” Tyson. Why would one Ph.D…
Category: Journalism
Dropping The Guardian
Holy cow! Good news sources are so hard to find in the USA. I’ve always trusted The Guardian. That’s why I am so shocked to discover that the bottom row of “news” stories, “More from around the web”, is fake news from Outbrain, make to look just like the row above. They are paid “news”…
60 Minutes Assange Interview: News or Yellow Journalism?
Steve Croft’s interview of Julian Assange is full of barely veiled innuendo. Crofts acts as a self-appointed judge of Assange’s actions. This is not an unbiased interview. It is a low point for the quality of news reporting at CBS News. Faced with Assange’s defense of acting in the best tradition of American values, Crofts…