And it's the same writer, over and over| Alec’s Copaganda Newsletter
An inside look at manufacturing the news| equalityalec.substack.com
How the police and the media distract us from what matters. Click to read Alec’s Copaganda Newsletter, by Alec Karakatsanis, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.| equalityalec.substack.com
Helpful tips for journalists and readers| equalityalec.substack.com
A few months ago, I was asked to give a TED-style talk in San Francisco about our civil rights work.| equalityalec.substack.com
The reception on the book tour has been amazing.| equalityalec.substack.com
I am so grateful to all (14,500) of you who have subscribed to this Copaganda Newsletter over the years and excited to say that the official launch of my book Copaganda is two weeks away!| equalityalec.substack.com
An unprecedented new immigration detention law and the propaganda behind it| Alec’s Copaganda Newsletter
The Body Camera and Beyond| Alec’s Copaganda Newsletter
I am excited to share today another excerpt from my study of ten years of copaganda about police body cameras in the Yale Journal of Law & Liberation.| Alec’s Copaganda Newsletter
“What makes it news is its dissemination, not its objective reality.”| Alec’s Copaganda Newsletter
In my last post, I talked about how the news either misstates or ignores the substance of what critics of the punishment bureaucracy are advocating, and the reasons that they hold those views. This leaves people in a state of ignorance and confusion about what progressives are proposing, whether those things were actually tried, and what kinds of solutions to our problems are even conceivable. Today, I talk about an important implication of this ignorance.| Alec’s Copaganda Newsletter
I’m taking a little break from writing these posts because I’ve been asked to turn the newsletter into a book on Copaganda. That is taking up a lot of the time I’m not working on our civil rights cases. But, in researching for the book, I kept coming across a pattern that I wanted to write about:| equalityalec.substack.com
How does the news falsify the motivations of powerful people?| equalityalec.substack.com
Maybe the most important form of copaganda| equalityalec.substack.com
In this post, I dissect a single tweet by a senior Washington Post reporter.| equalityalec.substack.com
The number, timing, frequency, and delivery method of news stories matters| equalityalec.substack.com
When the New York Times Is Like a PR Firm for Police Unions| equalityalec.substack.com
The news disciplines our thinking one word at a time| equalityalec.substack.com
Part 1: Scratching the surface on one of the great scandals of our time| equalityalec.substack.com