Just before Thanksgiving an entity calling itself the Guardians of Peace shunted an unimaginably vast amount of data pillaged from Sony Pictures Entertainment, one of
To someone who came of age regarding The Washington Post as the journalistic gold standard, it was a puzzling moment. On The Post’s website Nov.
In the pre-dawn of the media age the main delivery system for news in much of the country consisted of sleepy boys on bikes, who
I enrolled in the University of Paris at the age of 23, having drifted up to France after a year in Africa traveling and working—leaving,
Since the 1920s journalists in the United States have been writing and rewriting codes of ethics. This began because they wanted the public and their
This was originally published the week of Sept. 24, 2001, in The Miami Herald and other newspapers. I watched the World Trade Center burn to
The murders of the U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff by their Islamist captors were trivial horrors in the spiraling calamity that has engulfed Syria
Back in 2004 I heard a presentation by an eminent media analyst at a conference of broadcasters in New York. He talked about “the capacity
Back in 2004 I heard a presentation by an eminent media analyst at a conference of broadcasters in New York. He talked about “the capacity
If it had happened to anybody but George Zimmerman, more people might have cared. But when your own lawyer calls you America’s most hated man
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