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Part 2: What do they do and why does it matter?
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Part 1: Scratching the surface on one of the great scandals of our time
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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 covers public safety, and also some overlooked ethical problems in corporate journalism: Ethics and discretion in institutional…
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In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the historical and background context for how police and their allies concoct narratives about their own failures and violence to support “reforms” that increase their size and power. In Part 2, I analyzed how the New York Times framed its…
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In Part 1 last week, I provided background context for how the punishment bureaucracy has used its own failures to get low-information people who feel…
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Two Harvard professors have accused me of trying to "censor" them.
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The number, timing, frequency, and delivery method of news stories matters
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When the New York Times Is Like a PR Firm for Police Unions
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How talking about "crime" with scary metaphors shapes our thinking
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The news disciplines our thinking one word at a time
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Yesterday, the New York Times wrote an article about the plan by New York City Mayor Eric Adams to “remove people with severe, untreated mental illness…
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