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- Sep 17, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Santa Barbara Independent
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- Jul 9, 2026
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Not All ‘News’ Is Good News (opens the original)
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This Halloween, I’m going to dress up as a butterfly. I’ll wear a costume with big, colorful wings, spindly antennae, and sparkly face paint. I’ll be spectacular. But I want to be clear on one point: We all understand that humans in fantastical costumes are still … just … humans underneath it all. When it comes to our news, though, we have a harder time distinguishing real journalism from hack impersonators. Finger-pointing pundits. Click-hungry influencers. One-note podcasters. Even (ahem) drum
The Naked Untruth (opens the original)
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Forget, for the moment, your fears that AI is draining our dams, making us dumb, and plotting our planetary overthrow. Because right now it’s posing a more immediate albeit less existential threat: It’s legit undressing us. Popular so-called “nudify” apps use AI to turn photos of clothed humans into images of those same humans in their birthday suits. According to CBS News, more than 700 million of these apps have been downloaded worldwide, and one in 10 teens say they know someone who’s been a
It Happened Here First (opens the original)
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It happened in Downtown Santa Barbara — but made instant international news: New York Times. Associated Press. Hindustan Times. Even Vanity Fair. In the 20 years since, universities across America have taught the story as a cautionary tale of media implosion. On July 14, 2006, nearly 30 reporters and editors from the Santa Barbara News-Press — a Pulitzer Prize–winning paper that chronicled the daily dramas of this seaside town — marched from their second-story newsroom into the picturesque plaza
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