How to Survive a Major Media Event
Rolf Dobelli has been warning us that news is bad for us for some time now. In 2010 he published a paper on all the ill effects of consuming the news, from impairing our cognitive health to the fact...
View ArticleAll News is Sports News
The story that news is the broccoli which the citizen must be made to eat has been retold with increasing alarm as digitization and the Internet have threatened traditional business models in the...
View ArticleThe News and The Newsroom
Will McAvoy is on a mission to civilize. The lead anchor of the fictional Atlantis Cable News channel is mad as hell—and he’s not going to take it anymore. The self-satirized Republican in Name Only...
View ArticleThe Internet Poses No Threat to the News
The news business is not in trouble, and the Internet has not threatened it. The opposite assumption has become so embedded in the background of the conversation on the future of media that to suggest...
View ArticleYour Media Diet is Immoral
Moral determinations require context. Modern journalism, which faces a powerful tension between the context that is morally relevant and the context which makes a good narrative, has to cope with...
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