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August 2026

August 21, 2026

Back to School with AI

A news story quoting university students talking about the use of AI in their high...

January 2023

January 30, 2023

Publishing My Critique of Constructivism

A major newspaper published my critique of constructivism. The backstory and the article.

September 2022

September 28, 2022

A Global Study of Religion & Media

The Faith and Media Initiative has conducted a massive study of how religious different countries...

April 2021

April 08, 2021

Soviet-style Journalism Comes to America

Media bias slants the news in favor of a particular political perspective. But the American...

August 2019

August 20, 2019

If Old-School Reporters Covered the Epstein Story

The New York City medical examiner issued this ruling about the death of billionaire sex...

February 2019

February 21, 2019

The Worldview Crisis of Journalism

Journalism is in a bad way right now. Information technology is putting hard-copy news papers...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

The Late Bre Payton on Protecting Down Syndrome Babies

I am saddened at the death of Bre Payton, one of my students at Patrick...

December 27, 2018

The Different Top News of 2018 Lists

This is the time of year for retrospectives, for journalists to look back on the...

December 20, 2018

The Last Newspaper

We got word a few days ago that the Oklahoma City newspaper will no longer...

December 06, 2018

Movie Features a Journalist of Real News, Not Fake News:

It's one thing to be in a movie. But it's even better to be of...

July 2018

July 17, 2018

Towards the Restoration of Journalism

When we retired a few years ago, we moved back to Oklahoma, where our roots...

February 2018

February 16, 2018

Is Print Journalism Down to Its Last 10 Years?

Do we need print on paper anymore? After all, we can download books on Kindle,...

January 2018

January 08, 2018

The Postmodern Exposé

Michael Wolff, the author of the inflammatory exposé of President Trump's administration, says that everything...

December 2017

December 26, 2017

Sexual Counter-Revolution Leads Top News Stories of 2017

A good way to look back on the year that is just about over is to...

December 11, 2017

News Media’s “Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages”

In their zeal to bring down President Trump, journalists have been making mistake after mistake. On...

August 2017

August 24, 2017

Bannon believes the pen is mightier than the sword

After controversial Trump advisor Steve Bannon was fired from his position as presidential advisor, he...

May 2017

May 25, 2017

Fact checking the fact checkers

In this climate of "fake news," professional fact checkers have risen to new prominence. But...

May 25, 2017

Trump is good business for the liberal media

Ratings for the conservative Fox News are way down. The liberal MNBC, once hardly watched...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

A catalog of fake news stories about Trump

Trump's opponents seem to have coined the term "fake news" to describe hearsay and rumors that...

December 2016

December 27, 2016

November 2016

November 11, 2016

The journalistic sin of smugness

Will Rahn, the Washington editor of the Daily Beast, no less (known both for its...

January 2016

January 05, 2016

When journalists try to be theologians

G. Shane Morris has a great piece in the Federalist about how journalists have been...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

CNBC moderators lost the debate

Pretty much everybody agrees with the conclusions on our liveblog that the CNBC moderators of...

September 2015

September 11, 2015

A journalist’s experience in Vietnam

The German Lutheran journalist Uwe Siemon-Netto, a friend of mine, has written Duc: Triumph of...

July 2015

July 03, 2015

“There are not two sides.”

As the nation's media openly joined in the celebrations of the Supreme Court's decision on...

December 2014

December 29, 2014

August 2014

August 01, 2014

Todd exposes the war photo from space

The internet, newspapers, and television news have been showing this photograph of Israel and Gaza...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

Mollie Hemingway: Washington’s coolest scourge

We've linked quite a bit to the work of my friend and friend-of-my-daughters Mollie Hemingway,...

June 2014

June 10, 2014

The father of modern journalism: Martin Luther

World Magazine editor Marvin Olasky writes about how an independent press has its roots in...