(Originally published on July 17; Updated on July 20)
News Corp. and its journalists (maybe even its executives) have been charged with hacking into private phone lines, or computer, or files. Big deal. Who cares? It’s not like journalists don’t do this stuff — or use similar tactics — each day anyway. Continue reading
“Why do you hate journalism?”
It’s a question I get sometimes from journalists – and students – who read my blog and papers or who listen to my lectures that ask cultural questions about journalism and news. It’s odd, these people say, that a journalist, a journalism instructor, and a researcher would write “bad things” about journalism. Continue reading