The Commodification of Journalism: How the Internet and Reality TV Broke the News
Why the modern news cycle feels like a cable drama, and why critical reading is now a civic responsibility.
There’s a particular kind of irritability that wells up when you encounter a phrase in a news article that makes you stop and think, “Wait… that doesn’t sound right.” For me, the most recent spark was a piece from The Hill reporting that the United Nations Security Council had given the Board of Peace a “mandate.” The sentence looked authoritative, deci…
