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T ake a quick look at the most consequential graph of the last two decades, below. But first, the news: the UN's Intergovernmental Panel...

H ow do you describe the rise of a creature like Trump. Jeffrey Tucker , Robert Bidinotto and Robert Tracinski tracked his early ascent— ...

"L ikewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are fail...

"T he skirmishing continues between the mainstream media and Google (along with other major platforms) about the [so-called] Fair Digit...

" D avid Harvey reports that AI scraping could wind up being part of the revised NZ Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill. ....     "...

"[P laywright] Eugene O’Neill said that by using the title ' Mourning Becomes Electra ,' he sought to convey 'that mourning...

"'T he Government is taking immediate action to support New Zealand’s media and content production sectors, while it develops a lon...

What is the ideal relationship between government and media? Editor, interviewer and media owner Andrew Neil tells the UK Parliamentary Inqu...

"O ur entire system of government lives on the basis of a dying industry. A system of representative government depends on an informed ...

"M edia carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Am...

"T raditionally, science reporting was mostly descriptive —writers strove to explain new discoveries in a particular field. The new sty...

  The media has been slow to pick up on this National-led government's new policy to help out struggling media organisations. The policy...

I t's not like it's my job to fix the failing media's many problems, but here's where I reckon the problems started — and th...

"I f people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the mo...

JOHN CAMPBELL IS SAID to be a journalist. What we used to call a reporter. Over at The Halfling's blog, he critiques John Cambell'...

"I consider that [the so-called Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill] Bill is ill-conceived. It is a means of subsidising mainstream medi...

  Media here feel like they're under attack. It's not just from the politicians that they attack, but it's part of the worldwid...

"O bjectivity [in journalism] does not mean not having an opinion . It means that one’s opinion is as fact-based and as logically integ...

"J ournalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for ...

"Just about every problem we battle in understanding the news today — and every one we will battle tomorrow — is exacerbated by plug...