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How to tell a lie with the truth
“What makes it news is its dissemination, not its objective reality.” - Jacques Ellul Imagine two scenarios. A given city had 10,000 shoplifting…
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Up is down, left is right
In my last post, I talked about how the news either misstates or ignores the substance of what critics of the punishment bureaucracy are advocating, and…
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What we don't tell people
I’m taking a little break from writing these posts because I’ve been asked to turn the newsletter into a book on Copaganda. That is taking up a lot of…
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A Response to the Harvard Professors
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A Warning to Journalists About Elite Academia
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What Is News?
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The Volume of News
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A Really Bad Tweet
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The New York Times Spreads Misinformation Again
And it's the same writer, over and over
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The Big Deception: Part 3
The biggest lie of all
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The Big Deception: Part 2
How does the news falsify the motivations of powerful people?
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The Big Deception
Maybe the most important form of copaganda
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"Real public safety problems"
Someone said the quiet part out loud
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Assembling A Crime Wave
An inside look at manufacturing the news
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A Really Bad Tweet
In this post, I dissect a single tweet by a senior Washington Post reporter. This tweet provides insight into the problems plaguing how the news media…
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Police Public Relations Spending: Part 2
Part 2: What do they do and why does it matter?
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Public Relations Spending By Police
Part 1: Scratching the surface on one of the great scandals of our time
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