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Tanto los científicos como los periodistas atraviesan a veces la incómoda experiencia de ver que sus investigaciones y conclusiones son cuestionadas por nuevos datos. Si eres un verdadero científico o periodista, observas la nueva información con la mente abierta. Y luego la pones a prueba. Intentas probarla o refutarla basándote en la mejor información que […]
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The crisis has emboldened news organizations to make overdue changes Just a few weeks ago the dark forces of the internet seemed to demand the world’s attention. Democracy itself appeared to be shaken to its foundations. Social media and cable news can do that to you. They make it appear that everyone is a take-no-prisoners […]
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Facts and science don’t matter in the new media ecosystem What follows is the abstract of my paper just published by Comunicación y Hombre, of the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria. The emergence of search engines and social media networks in the past two decades created a new media ecosystem. It allowed the instantaneous creation, distribution, […]
Read More »El novelista apuesta por una prensa con diversidad de voces Mario Vargas Llosa, el Nobel de la literatura, acaba de publicar una novela histórica, Tiempos recios, cuya trama se basa en el golpe de estado en Guatemala en 1954 dirigido por la CIA. Para el novelista, la trama tiene mucho que ver con el estado […]
Read More »His latest historical novel tells of CIA misinformation campaign Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel laureate in literature, has just published a historical novel, Tough Times (“Tiempos recios”), whose plot is based on the 1954 overthrow of the democratically elected government in Guatemala that was engineered by the CIA. For the novelist, that conspiracy has many […]
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