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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 Benedict Allen, Daily Mail, journalism, Mail on Sunday, Simon Parry, South China Morning Post
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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
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Tagged confirmation bias, journalism, Michael Fitzgerald, Nieman Foundation
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