Last week, it was Columbia Journalism Review’s four-part series on the media and Russiagate. This week, it the story the Columbia Journalism Review had but didn’t publish – the connection between The Nation Magazine and Vladimir Putin. Duncan Campbell at Byline Times publishes the story in full.
And on that subject, James Heartfield at Spiked explains why the press fell for the Russiagate story, and why some are still desperately holding on to the hope that it’s still true, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Terry Mattingly, part of the team at Get Religion that writes really insightful articles about how the press does and doesn’t cover religion, has an article at Acton Institute. If you think journalism is very, very different from what it used to be, it’s not your imagination. There’s been a huge shift in how journalism is practiced, and whom it’s practiced for. This help helps explain how newspapers, like my own hometown newspaper, had news columns and editorial pages that sound like echo chambers.
These stories matter. The country is not going to function, or function for long, without a free press doing the job it’s supposed to be doing.
More Good Reads
Life and Culture
The Crack-Up: How individual and civilizational identities collapse – Peter Hughes at Quillette.
What is Marxism? and Marxism’s Long Shadow – Kevin Flatt at The Gospel Coalition.
Psychology studies that go viral are more likely to be bogus – Ross Pomeroy at Big Think.
The Deathwork of Devilish Dance: What a Grammy Performance Reveals about Secular Thought – Pierce Taylor Hibbs at Westminster Magazine.
The Twitter Files Reveal an Existential Threat – John Daniel Davidson at Imprimis.
Poetry
The Shadow of My Sorrow – Daniel Howard at Society of Classical Poets.
An Opportune Time (Out in These Streets) – Drew Jackson at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).
At the Crossroads – Dana Gioia at Literary Hub.
News Media
Death of old-school journalism may be why Catholic church vandalism isn't a big story – Clemente Lisi at Get Religion.
Google now wants to answer your questions without links and with AI. Where does that leave publishers? – Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab.
British Stuff
The Dandy’s Perambulations – Spitalfields Life.
Faith
Tell Your Anxieties to Ask Permission – Tim Challies.
The Case for Pew Bibles – William Boyce & K.J. Drake at Mere Orthodoxy.
The Resilient Mother – Michele D. Morin at Desiring God.
Writing and Literature
Children aren’t the enemy of the writer – Billy McMorris at The Spectator.
The Death and Resurrection of Bilbo Baggins – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.
Ukraine
Return of the mercenaries: Putin’s hired killers have money on their minds – Patrick Cadick-Adams at The Critic Magazine.
American Stuff
The Truth Behind the Poetry: On the Facts and Myths of the American Revolution’s Early Days – Bob Thomson at Literary Hub.
Saving A Worn-Out Book: Amos Swan and a Regimental History – Jon Tracey at Emerging Civil War.
Londonderry Air, arranged by Arthur Frackenpohl – USC Concert Choir
Painting: The Scholar, oil on canvas by Ludwig Deutsch (1855-1935).
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