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The climate change of bad news

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Analysis Op-eds bad news Ben Smith caste cognitive dissonance fact-checking Jacob Silverman Jonah Lehrer journalism Miami Herald parachute journalism privileges Rafia Zakaria Rukmini Callimachi The Atlantic The New York Times The New Yorker

This post flows a bit like the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket. As one friend put it, “It starts somewhere and then goes in a different direction.” This year hasn’t been beset by the same old steady driz…

Toppling Epstein's intellectuals network

4 min read
Op-eds Science Cesar Hidalgo Elementary Evgeny Morozov Jeffrey Epstein John Brockman Joi Ito Martin Nowak Marvin Minsky Max Brockman Miami Herald MIT Media Lab Nicholas Negroponte Patrick McCray Peter Aldhous Robert Trivers Ronan Farrow Xeni Jardan

While there have been no other high-profile exits from the MIT Media Lab after Ethan Zuckerman and J. Nathan Matias submitted their resignations, the lab’s students had been demanding its director Joi…