Tag Archives: journalism

Corker and Shumble ReBooted

Simon Parry writing in the South China Morning Post offers a retelling of Waugh’s parody of journalists reset in the jungles of today’s Papua New Guinea. He is hired by an unnamed London Sunday paper to cover the story of … Continue reading

Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Corker and Shumble ReBooted

Evelyn Waugh and Confirmation Bias

The journalism website of the  Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, Storyboard, carries an article by Michael Fitzgerald that cites a brief episode of Scoop as an example of a phenomenon that should be avoided by future journalists. This is known as “confirmation bias:”  There’s … Continue reading

Posted in Newspapers, Scoop | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Evelyn Waugh and Confirmation Bias