Journalism is in the midst of a slow-motion crisis. When I was in journalism school, students learned how to write using the "inverted pyramid" approach. The inverted pyramid is a style of writing that dates back to the days when paper real estate — in a print newspaper — was limited. Editors who wished to …
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Some years after the G. W. Bush administration's entry into the Iraq war, American news outlets admitted to dropping the ball. Mainstream media acknowledged they did too little to question the purported evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, whereas challenges to the Bush administration's assertion that Iraq and the 9/11 tragedy were linked …
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