About The Relationship Between “Credibility” And Readership/Market Share

Sorry for such tangentialism today, but I can’t help but try to weave a few waving threads from recent examples:
NBC is refusing - in a very bare and brazen way - to address the evidence brought by the NYT, Glenn Greenwald and others relative to disclosure of actual and potential conflicts of interest and the [...]

Incarcerating People With Mental Illness

It’s traditional to express institutionalized fear and ostracism of those with illnesses.
Historically, most people know about tuberculosis wards, islands for people with leprosy and plague houses. In our not-so-remote history, state and federal institutions that warehoused people with chronic symptoms of mental illness were the norm and not the exception until the national wave of [...]