When you ban hate speech, you give its speakers power they don’t deserve – and don’t really have.
Category: news
Shit happens. We cover it.
WHAT I SAY WHEN I’M ASKED ABOUT IMMIGRATION
Journalists should critique both sides. Which means no one takes our side.
I’D RATHER GET BEATEN UP BY CONSERVATIVES THAN LIBERALS
It hurts just the same, but one side adds insult to the injuries.
HOW HURRICANES HELP CRANKY OLD JOURNALISTS
For a few brief days after the storm, the news goes back a quarter of a century.
CAN A STRAIGHT WHITE WOMAN LEAD A DIVERSITY COMMITTEE?
This one does – until tomorrow, when she’s being ousted for a black woman.
I’LL PAY YOU TO WRITE NICE THINGS ABOUT TRUMP…
I’m an editor in search of a pro-Trump columnist. But you won’t write about politics.
THE BEST MAG FOR THE WORST TIMES
Today, I subscribed to a magazine that’s so good, it would never hire me to write for them.
IN DEFENSE OF JEFFREY LORD
Despite the conservative outrage, CNN fired the pro-Trump pundit for the right reasons. But despite the liberal smugness, it also hired him for the right reasons.
NYT WTF?
The New York Times asks me for an interview. I’ve received better-written emails from Nigerian princes.
DATA QUEENS
I’m a “sexist troll” who deserves “a little more public shaming” because I designed this T-shirt. So says a herd of data journalists.
ROLLING STONE IS THE REALITY TV OF ETHICAL JOURNALISM
Who sends an actor to interview an escaped murderer? If Rolling Stone covered music like it covers news, no one would ever read it.
MEDIA ETHICS ISN’T A GAME
I figured I’d spend a few minutes unraveling the GamerGate shit storm. I mean, how long could it take?
SOME ETHICS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS
The Society of Professional Journalists updates its celebrated Ethics Code – secretly and unethically.
WHAT DOES A PULITZER REALLY COST?
If you write a Pulitzer-winning story and no one reads it, doesn’t everyone lose?
BAD NEWS & GOOD NEWS FOR THE NEWS
Well, actually, it’s almost all bad news.
HOW SHOULD SPJ COVER JOURNALISM?
The nation’s largest journalism organization sure doesn’t think big.
LAUDERDALE CITY MOTTO: TO PROTECT AND SWERVE
A city attorney says he’s “unable not to respond” to charges that the police force is “not doing what it’s never done and is not doing now.” For this, he’s paid $240,000 a year.
A PICTURE PERFECT PROTEST
Civil disobedience with cameras gets meta when photographers cover it.
THERE’S NO CRYING IN JOURNALISM
Nothing’s more hypocritical than a thin-skinned journalist, and everyone in this story is both.
