J-POD || Podcast || “Journalism is a form of public service. It is dangerous to undermine institutional news. All of us need to become more critical readers and users of social media”|| Alan Rusbridger, former Editor-in-Chief, The Guardian

3 June 2020

*** The role of social media in distorting societies by pouring unfiltered information directly into the pockets and phones of users has been evident for nearly a decade now. But it took the American presidential elections of 2016—which installed Donald Trump in office—for Google, Facebook and YouTube to come in for scrutiny. At first, Mark…

‘American media misleading the American public’

18 May 2008

A journalist’s twin points of references should be the real and the important. But, for months, the focus of the coverage of the presidential elections in the United States has been on trivia, writes Gabor Steingart in Der Spiegel, thus misleading the American public. Instead of addressing important issues of war and peace, health and…

What does your choice of font say about you?

29 January 2008

Handwriting experts decipher personalities by looking at signatures. The Boston Globe looks at the choice of fonts chosen by the American presidential candidates to decode what it says about them. Hillary Rodham Clinton: “far from fresh… it projects recycled establishment. The type has a tired feeling.” Barack Obama: “contemporary, fresh, very polished and professional…. Young…