Archive - Alec’s Copaganda Newsletter

How "Criminal Justice Reform" Can Deceive Us

The Body Camera and Beyond

Jul 22 •

Alec Karakatsanis

Part II: The Body Camera

I am excited to share today another excerpt from my study of ten years of copaganda about police body cameras in the Yale Journal of Law & Liberation.

Jul 12 •

Alec Karakatsanis

The Body Camera

The Language of Our Dreams

Jul 11 •

Alec Karakatsanis

March 2024

My new project becomes public

Mar 25 •

Alec Karakatsanis

September 2023

How to tell a lie with the truth

“What makes it news is its dissemination, not its objective reality.”

Sep 4, 2023 •

Alec Karakatsanis

August 2023

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…

Aug 28, 2023 •

Alec Karakatsanis

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…

Aug 11, 2023 •

Alec Karakatsanis

June 2023

The New York Times Spreads Misinformation Again

And it's the same writer, over and over

Jun 26, 2023 •

Alec Karakatsanis

The Big Deception: Part 3

The biggest lie of all

Jun 1, 2023 •

Alec Karakatsanis

May 2023

The Big Deception: Part 2

How does the news falsify the motivations of powerful people?

May 26, 2023 •

Alec Karakatsanis

The Big Deception

Maybe the most important form of copaganda

May 18, 2023 •

Alec Karakatsanis

April 2023

"Real public safety problems"

Someone said the quiet part out loud

Apr 23, 2023 •

Alec Karakatsanis

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