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. “Tell all the truth but tell it slant — / Success in Circuit lies,” Emily Dickinson famously wrote. Case in point: The Onion, one of the best known honest fake news websites in the United States that takes this injunction very seriously. It proudly declares that it “supports more than 350,000 full- and part-time … Read more
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own,” Emerson wrote while contemplating the value of solitude. More than a century later, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (September 29, 1934–October 20, 2021) echoed this sentiment in his book “Flow,” expanding upon Emerson’s belief to … Read more
“You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on,” Harry S. Truman is said to have said. Case in point: the Drudge Report, one of the oldest news aggregator websites which uncovered news the corporate media … Read more
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) is America’s most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior. Founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi, SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to a well-informed citizenry through the daily work of its roughly 6,000 members; … Read more