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Why We Need Complicated Stories
“My generation is too focused on easy stories: vituperative takedowns, lists of .gifs, and flippant blog posts,” writes seminarian N.C. Harrison. I re-read The Colorado Kid by Stephen King a couple...
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‘Humans Of New York’ Isn’t Clickbait – It’s Why The Internet Exists
Brandon Stanton’s project is a lot more than clickbait, says Anastasia Sasewich. _____ By Anastasia Sasewich. In perhaps the only instance of meta-pseudo-clickbaiting yet, Gawker writer Daniel...
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15 Things I Hate About Being a Writer
Like all the best writers, Cabot O’Callaghan has a love-hate relationship with his craft. ___ My writing is usually unbearably raw. Dark. It’s blood on the sidewalk. Too much heavy, man. If you judged...
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One Weird Trick To Remember People’s Names
Meeting countless people each day can make it hard to keep names straight. You’ll be amazed at how well this works. — “I’m not good with names.” How many times have you heard it? At parties,...
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What Are We Supposed to ‘Believe’ About Facts Now? Does Real News Matter...
What role does the Fourth Estate have in our new “post-fact” era of partisan politics? Watch as BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith and CNN’s Brian Stelter parse words, phrases, and editing judgment calls in relation...
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Clickbait Material: Popular Science
Embed from Getty Images — We are living in a golden age of popular science. Multiple television and radio programmes, best-selling books, well-attended science festivals around the world – all reveal...
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How To Call Out Sexism in a Way That Actually Does Something
Embed from Getty Images — Okay, so everyone agrees we’re supposed to call out sexist behavior when we see it, correct? When we see a co-worker’s ass being slapped and referred to as “breakfast,” we...
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Sorry to Break It to You, But the Internet is a Lie
— This New York Magazine article entitled “How much of the internet is fake? Turns out, a lot of it, actually” is long, but worth wading through if you want to understand the world we live in....
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Is Clickbait Tearing America Apart? (How To Help Stop the Cycle)
Berkeley Springs, WV (December 2021)—Clickbait has taken over the news. We’re bombarded with sensational, shocking, and scandalous stories, often at the expense of accuracy and fairness. (Even...
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The Truth?
I. You. We. They say you should sleep On you left side So the stomach acid doesn’t creep Up your throat They say this one trick Will flush your insides out They say all cheaters have This one thing in...
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From Shrimp Jesus to Fake Self-Portraits, AI-Generated Images Have Become the...
By Renee DiResta, Stanford University; Abhiram Reddy, Georgetown University, and Josh A. Goldstein, Georgetown University If you’ve spent time on Facebook over the past six months, you may have...
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