Sunday, January 16, 2011

Journalism

Beware of news reports that seed their own backlash -- pseudo-stories, manufactured controversies, obvious hype. The backlash is just part of the loop. Even "Is this a story?" becomes a story. "Reporting the controversy" when the controversy was concocted is almost as reprehensible as creating it. And this is 75% of the news these days.

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