Topic

Journalism

The first draft, written under deadline and increasingly without funding.

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Spin (propaganda)

Spin didn’t just distort truth—it trained the public to expect distortion.

Media don’t change minds — they install the questions minds are allowed to ask.

Infotainment didn’t dumb down news—it dissolved the line between what we know and how we’re distracted.

Media bias isn’t a bug in the system. It’s the system running as designed.

Sensationalism isn’t bad journalism—it’s journalism optimised for attention, not truth.

Yellow journalism wasn’t about lies—it was about selling papers by weaponising outrage, sympathy, and spectacle.

It doesn’t expose bias — it maps the machinery that makes bias structural, inevitable, and invisible.

Moral panic isn’t mass hysteria — it’s the machinery that turns anxiety into law.

Gonzo journalism didn’t free reporting—it outsourced verification to the writer’s credibility.

She didn’t report the world—she arranged it, sentence by sentence, until it looked like truth.

Poetry was Rukeyser’s weapon—not her refuge.

Tom Wolfe didn’t report the sixties—he reverse-engineered human behaviour from a single obsession: status.