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Americans Hate the Media

Where goes truth when a new Gallup poll indicates American trust in the media is (yet again) at an all-time low?
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Getting to Know What We Do Not Know

A new study shows how little we know about current and historical events. This affects strategies for how we understand and process the news.
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Language, Militias and Occupation

What should the media call an armed group that takes over federal property and makes political demands? Oregon gives us a chance to consider.
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Is it Smeagol or Gollum?

Turkey debates Lord of the Rings to decide whether a doctor will spend two years in jail over a Facebook post.
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Biking While Hot

Biking through New York City in the summer heat. Queens to Brighton Beach and back again.
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Publishing the News When it’s Already Everywhere

What do publishers and news consumers do in a world of infinite choice?
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Let’s Praise Books… Unless We Don’t Need to Read Them

We love books but there’ve been too many for about 500 years now.
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If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript

A new book exploring the intersection of literature and code is a delightful romp through some of the Western world’s most celebrated writers and the imagined JavasScript they would have — could have — slung had they been so inclined.