Should you write about yourself? Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922–April 11, 2007) argues that being yourself on a page is the single most important element of your writing style. For the hesitant, his 1985 essay “How to Write with Style,” included in the anthology “How to Use the Power of the Printed Word,” serves as … Read more
“Happy people remember more good events than actually happened, and they forget more of the bad events,” Martin Seligman wrote in his book “Authentic Happiness.” Reading news, however, can have an opposite effect. A quick glance at today’s headlines can leave you feeling angry or depressed. That’s why your information diet needs to be balanced … Read more
. “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
“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