It's a very odd feeling, having played a role in Web 1, 2, & 3, to be mentoring students who only know of those moments via third-party scholarship.
Much of that scholarship is very good. But it's all coalesced around received wisdom & fixed narratives, and those tend to leave out a lot of important details.
I'm always torn about whether and how much to use my own memory/experience of the events to add nuance, or to just let the official story be the official story.
More than 50 scholars of communication and #journalism from top universities have signed a letter calling on NYT to address questions about a major investigative report that described a “pattern of gender-based violence” in Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel
"The letter follows months of criticism raised by outside critics as well as some NYT staffers about the credibility of its sourcing and the editorial process for the story"