Alec’s Copaganda Newsletter

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A Response to the Harvard Professors
Two Harvard professors have accused me of trying to "censor" them.
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A Warning to Journalists About Elite Academia
Two Harvard professors propose the greatest expansion of the police bureaucracy in Western history.
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The Volume of News
The number, timing, frequency, and delivery method of news stories matters
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What Is News?
This is a post about how journalists decide what is “news” and what isn’t.
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The Enduring Power of Copaganda
An unprecedented new immigration detention law and the propaganda behind it
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The Big Deception
Maybe the most important form of copaganda
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A Really Bad Tweet
In this post, I dissect a single tweet by a senior Washington Post reporter.
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Alec Karakatsanis
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How to tell a lie with the truth
“What makes it news is its dissemination, not its objective reality.”
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How the Media Enables Violent Bureaucracy
Part 1
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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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Alec Karakatsanis
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"Real public safety problems"
Someone said the quiet part out loud
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Alec Karakatsanis
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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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