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Ralph Rosenberg's avatar

Always appreciate your self-reflection. And thanks for sharing your insights on how Trump is a symptom. Simultaneously, he is also, even unwittingly, an accelerator of the disease. “Brandolini's law" is also aided and abetted by the explosion of social media in the past decade. To deal with this law and today's misinformation wars, I wrote Kyle Munson wondering what journalism schools are doing to combat misinformation and fake news. I think your modest, self criticisms would be healthy lessons for today's students.

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Kevin Alexander's avatar

We're now in a weird phase where when a reporter holds their subject to account /that/ becomes news. I see the softball questions being asked, and wonder what would Mike Wallace think?

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