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The following satirical piece was adapted from a real BBC News story. Besides changing the name of the drug and its supposed primary symptom, only individual and organizational names have been changed. The original story can be found here.
Drug “doubles mental health risk”
Taking Prozac virtually doubles the risk of developing mental illnesses such as depression, […]
Objectivity, subjectivity, and journalism
0 Comments Posted 05.01.2008 in Internet, Journalism, PoliticsI just found out about Eric Alterman’s fairly recent article in The New Yorker, “Out of print: The death and life of the American newspaper” (March 31, 2008), in which Alterman expertly lays out the centuries-long debate over the value of “objective” journalism for American democracy.
It’s a great article, and a fantastically clear explication of […]
Before I take off for my weekend backpacking trip, I thought I’d point out this unfortunate AP wire release from yesterday. Apparently a Pasadena-based local news site has started outsourcing some of their reporting to India. According to the release, the editor believes that some kinds of reporting “can be done from afar […]
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