journalismism
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NPR Is Very Worried That Gaming Is Going To Turn Kids Into Nazis
In journalism, no two things are more often and easily confused than “this wild thing is happening” and “this wild thing is happening, widely.” When the wild thing is, say, mad cow disease – an immediate threat to life – the problem of weighing particulars against a greater sense of scale is critical.
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Objectivity
For the past few weeks, a lot of people have been asking me about “objectivity,” mostly thanks to a contextless tweet that has been circulating among the GamerGate crowd for quite some time now.