Artificial Intelligence: The Final Nail in Journalism’s Coffin?

Once upon a time, newspapers and magazines were physical products you flipped through as you read them—not microelectronic cybernetic versions of themselves that you squinted at on a cell phone or other hand-held wireless device. You could pick up, fold, and stick newspapers and magazines into a briefcase or backpack. …

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Thoughts about America: the Angry, the Miserable, the Suicidal

We hear a lot today about fake news in America. But what about “fake journalists?” Watch television, cable, or surf the Internet, and we see a profusion of talking heads, political pundits, academics, bloggers, and news aggregators out there masquerading as journalists. Unfortunately, too many people can’t distinguish between skilled professional …

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Are American College Students Today’s Neo-Nazi Brown Shirts?

In the 1920s, as Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers Party, otherwise known as Nazis, was gaining political and social power, its brown-shirted paramilitary wing called the Sturmabteilung (SA) was busy marching and demonstrating in cities and university campuses. Their main target? Germany’s Jews. I never thought I would see …

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