THOMAS: The Many Forms Of Censorship | National Columns
There has been much in the news lately about censorship. The major media have been reporting on Vladimir Putin’s efforts to keep the Russian people from hearing the truth about his war against Ukraine and what President Biden has called war crimes.…
DYSON COLUMN: How would we fare in the face of war? | Columns
I think most of us would be willing to pay more at the pump if we thought the extra money would somehow make it into the hands of the Ukrainian people who have fled their homes or had their neighborhoods destroyed during the Russian invasion. Instead, I…
News literacy essential skill in our era of misinformation | Columns
In my favorite daydream, I am back in my college newsroom in the early 1970s, as student reporters clack away on manual typewriters and student editors tamp tobacco into their pipes and scrawl comments on sheets of dingy, gray newsprint. “What is that?”…