Do No Harm: A Media Code of Conduct for Interviewing Trauma Survivors
Reflections from a trauma specialist and survivor.
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Media Criticism
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Why Esquire’s March Cover Is Sort of Dangerous
I've always known who the "American Boy" is. He's the model I was supposed to imitate—at least until my queerness got in the way.
Is There a Good Way to Fact-Check Public Figures in Real Time?
A recent goof by the Associated Press indicates that real-time fact-checking still doesn't exactly know what it's doing.
Amid #MeToo, Journalists Shouldn’t Commodify Women’s Pain
Reporters should call out non-apologies—and be wary of re-exploiting victims.
The Media Is Only Telling You Half of the Climate Change Story
Network news outlets are tricking us into thinking there's nothing we can do about climate change.
Local TV News Spreads Cancer Fatalism
New research suggests watching local television news leads to fatalistic beliefs regarding cancer.
Neuroscience: Is it All in Your Mind?
Although it’s fun and science-y to know how the physical brain parses data, most of us really should be more interested in what the mind is doing.
Watchdog 2.0
The emergence of a video showing pedestrians mowed down in Baghdad by U.S. gunships illustrates how traditional media's watchdog role is being usurped.
Canard d’Etat: Honduras and the U.S. Press
Think the fallacies in America's health care debate are slippery? Try catching the red herring that's fouling up U.S. press coverage of the Honduran coup.