Tag: mainstream media

In Other News, There’s Really Not a Whole Lot Going On

Posted on by Michael Minkoff, Jr. · 8 Comments

I understand this is a strange article to be posting on a site dedicated to political news and commentary. But as I was struggling this morning to find anything of greatly novel significance going on in American politics, I realized that perhaps I should come clean about some aspects of my job with any readers […]

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Journalism Gets No Respect, Poll Says

Posted on by Michael Minkoff, Jr. · 34 Comments

According to a recent Pew poll, respect for the contributions of journalists to society has sunk considerably since 2009, dipping especially low among women. I wonder why. In an article I wrote on the fallacy of consensus science, I quoted from Michael Crichton’s brilliant 2003 lecture “Aliens Cause Global Warming” about the deterioration of journalism […]

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