Baby Boomers are obsessed with JFK, but his assassination didn’t “shatter innocence” or “change America” or any of those other tropes
Journalism
Assange Biopic Ignores Sexual-Assault Allegations
Filmmakers have given us a redacted history of Julian Assange—exactly the kind that WikiLeaks set out to dismantle
How the News Got Less Mean
The more people get their information by sharing online, the more positive stories get. New research underlines a growing trend in media
Stop The Relentless Even-Handedness
Critics on both sides of an NPR debate are missing the point
Viewpoint: TV News Shouldn’t Hype Powerball
Incessant coverage by the media feeds the lottery myth and preys on the poor, argues the former president of ABC News
What Jeff Bezos’s Time Castrating Cattle Tells Us About the Future of News
Unlike most CEOs, Amazon’s founder doesn’t follow passions into business, which means he sees the Washington Post as a money maker and not a plaything
The Myth of FDR’s Secret Disability
The press sometimes described his condition in great detail, and LIFE even published a picture of him in a wheelchair
David Westin: Leaks Help Protect National Security
There are very few examples of the press putting the country in harm’s way, and many more where the country would have been better served if journalists had gotten more of the story
DOJ’s Dragnet on Leakers: The Apathy is Troubling, Especially Among Journalists
The revelation that the Department of Justice targeted Associated Press reporters highlights features of contemporary American life
Banning the Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’ Won’t Change the Stigma
If you update the language, the negative connotations will simply migrate to the new term
Viewpoint: Why Predictions Fail but Prophecies Don’t
We should be less concerned with how things will be and more with how they should be
Andrew Breitbart: A Eulogy from His ‘Enemy’
The moment I realized he was gone, he transformed in my mind from a shock jock to a committed soldier for his side
The Siri Scandal That Wasn’t
Why Siri isn’t pro-life and journalism is turning our brains to mush