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'''''Vox''''' is |
'''''Vox''''' is a [[Modern liberalism in the United States|politically liberal]]<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /> American news website run by [[Vox Media]], founded by [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]] columnist [[Ezra Klein]] and launched in April 2014. Key contributors include [[Matthew Yglesias]], [[Dylan Matthews]], Max Fisher, Melissa Bell and [[Sarah Kliff]]. Its signature feature is the reusable, wiki-like "card stack", which provides context and key definitions related to an article topic. |
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== History == |
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The site uses Vox Media's Chorus [[content management system]], which enables journalists to easily create articles with complex visual effects and transitions, such as photos that change as the reader scrolls.<ref name="NYT: melding"/> Vox Media's properties target educated households with six-figure incomes and a head of house less than 35 years old.<ref name="NYT: melding"/> |
The site uses Vox Media's Chorus [[content management system]], which enables journalists to easily create articles with complex visual effects and transitions, such as photos that change as the reader scrolls.<ref name="NYT: melding"/> Vox Media's properties target educated households with six-figure incomes and a head of house less than 35 years old.<ref name="NYT: melding"/> |
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== Political Stance == |
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''[[The Federalist (website)|The Federalist]]''<nowiki/>'s [[David Harsanyi]] described the site as treating "liberal truths as if they were empirical truths", adding that "I have no doubt Vox will explain the intellectual purity of progressive positions to many liberal readers in a lucid and entertaining way. What it probably won’t do is help anyone with genuine intellectual curiosity 'understand the news' any better."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/08/how-vox-makes-us-stupid/|title=How Vox Makes Us Stupid|last=Politics|access-date=2016-03-17}}</ref> |
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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry at ''[[The Week]]'' accused the site as "partisan commentary in question-and-answer disguise", and picking and choosing facts and arguments to fit the liberal agenda, while leaving out opposing viewpoints and arguments. He also criticized the site for the fact that its "starting lineup was mostly made up of ideological liberals."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://theweek.com/articles/445880/vox-derp-intellectual-stagnation-left|title=Vox, derp, and the intellectual stagnation of the left|website=theweek.com|access-date=2016-03-17}}</ref> |
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''[[The Washington Times]]''<nowiki/>'s [[Christopher J. Harper]] that the "liberal bias doesn’t bother me too much because it is so blatant and relatively transparent."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/7/christopher-harper-vox-news-website-needs-to-take-/?page=all|title=CHRISTOPHER HARPER: Vox news website needs to take serious look at how it ‘reinvents’ journalism|last=http://www.washingtontimes.com|first=The Washington Times|website=The Washingtion Times|access-date=2016-03-17}}</ref> |
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Geoffrey Lysaught, publisher of ''[[The Daily Signal]]'' said of ''Vox'', "What Ezra is doing has got a wild liberal bias to it."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2014/05/08/heritage-foundation-to-launch-conservative-answer-to-vox-com/|title=Heritage Foundation to launch conservative answer to Vox.com|website=Hot Air Headlines|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-17}}</ref> |
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[[Byron York|Bryon York]] of ''[[The Washington Examiner]]'' said of [[Ezra Klein|Erza Klein]] and ''Vox'', "That has always been my objection to that kind of work: It is often political advocacy presenting itself as disinterested, wonkish, pragmatic analysis. It's not."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ezra-klein-vox-obamacare-victory-conservatives|title=Conservatives Already Hate Ezra Klein's New Website|website=TPM|access-date=2016-03-17}}</ref> |
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[[James Taranto]] of ''[[The American Spectator]]'' characterized Vox as a "dumbed down" liberal opinion website.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/05/19/james-taranto-ezra-kleins-vox-just-dumbed-down-liberal-opinion|title=James Taranto: Ezra Klein's Vox Is Just 'Dumbed-Down' Liberal Opinion|website=NewsBusters|access-date=2016-03-17}}</ref> |
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''[[The Washington Free Beacon|Washington Free Beacon]]'' editor Andrew Stiles characterized Vox's readers as "young liberal hipsters".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://freebeacon.com/blog/vox-explains-liberals/|title=Vox Explains Liberals|website=Washington Free Beacon|access-date=2016-03-17}}</ref> |
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[[Conservatism in the United States|Conservative]] commentator [[Erick Erickson]] called ''Vox''<nowiki/>'s [[Matthew Yglesias]] the site's "village idiot and liar-in-chief" and that "JuiceVox" is "left-wing propaganda".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.redstate.com/erick/2014/03/27/matthew-yglesias-said-the-left-can-lie-to-win-arguments-and-so-he-does/|title=Matthew Yglesias is Juice Vox Media's Village Idiot and Liar-in-Chief {{!}} RedState|website=RedState|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-17}}</ref> |
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== Reception == |
== Reception == |
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''[[The Federalist (website)|The Federalist]]''<nowiki/>'s [[David Harsanyi]] criticized the site's concept of "explanatory journalism" in an article titled "How Vox Makes Us Stupid", arguing that the website picked and choosed what facts to use in order to only reinforce their readers' progressive liberal worldview, and that "explanatory journalism" inherently leaves out opposing viewpoints and different perspectives that should be considered.<ref name=":0" /> |
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''[[The Week]]''<nowiki/>'s Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry criticized the site, saying that "a couple months in, it's clear that much of what passes for "explanation" on ''Vox'' is really partisan commentary in question-and-answer disguise."<ref name=":1" /> |
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''[[The Washington Times]]''<nowiki/>'s [[Christopher J. Harper]] criticized the site for its propensity for mistakes, including perpetuating untruths about the Michael Brown shooting case, reporting on a nonexistant bridge between Israel and Gaza, erroneously stating that the 2014 winter solstice would be the longest night in history, and others. He wrote that "much-ballyhooed website aiming to make journalism better and to explain the news" it "makes a lot of mistakes."<ref name=":2" /> |
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''[[The Economist]]'' considered the site concept virtuous and compared Klein's intentions with [[John Keats]]'s [[negative capability]]: that ''Vox'' can recognize uncertainty without being mired in its details.<ref name="Economist: strangled" /> They connected Klein's hypothesis—that clear and well-presented information improves deliberative democracy—to ''Vox''{{'s}} site design, particularly its "explanatory 'cardstacks{{'"}}.<ref name="Economist: strangled" /> ''The Economist'' also added that the essay defeats the purpose of the site, since ''Vox'' would have no audience if people were unwilling to hear information that conflicts with their core beliefs.<ref name="Economist: strangled" /> |
''[[The Economist]]'' considered the site concept virtuous and compared Klein's intentions with [[John Keats]]'s [[negative capability]]: that ''Vox'' can recognize uncertainty without being mired in its details.<ref name="Economist: strangled" /> They connected Klein's hypothesis—that clear and well-presented information improves deliberative democracy—to ''Vox''{{'s}} site design, particularly its "explanatory 'cardstacks{{'"}}.<ref name="Economist: strangled" /> ''The Economist'' also added that the essay defeats the purpose of the site, since ''Vox'' would have no audience if people were unwilling to hear information that conflicts with their core beliefs.<ref name="Economist: strangled" /> |
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Type of site | News website |
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Available in | English |
Owner | Vox Media |
Editor | Ezra Klein |
URL | www |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | April 6, 2014 |
Current status | Active |
Vox is a politically liberal[2][3][4][5] American news website run by Vox Media, founded by liberal columnist Ezra Klein and launched in April 2014. Key contributors include Matthew Yglesias, Dylan Matthews, Max Fisher, Melissa Bell and Sarah Kliff. Its signature feature is the reusable, wiki-like "card stack", which provides context and key definitions related to an article topic.
History
Ezra Klein left The Washington Post in January 2014 for a position with Vox Media, the publishers of the sports website SB Nation, technology website The Verge, and video gaming website Polygon.[6] The New York Times described Vox Media as "a technology company that produces media" rather than its inverse, associated with "Old Media".[6] Klein expected to "improve the technology of news" and build an online platform better equipped for making news understandable.[6] The new site's 20-person staff was chosen for their expertise in topic areas and included Slate's Matthew Yglesias and Klein's colleagues from The Washington Post.[6]
Vox launched in early April 2014 with Klein as its editor-in-chief. His opening editorial essay, "How politics makes us stupid", explained his distress about political polarization in the context of Yale Law School professor Dan Kahan's theories on how people protect themselves from information that conflicts with their core beliefs.[7]
Content
In order to reuse prior journalist work, Vox creates "card stacks" in bright "canary yellow" that provide context and define terms within an article. The cards are perpetually maintained as a form of "wiki page written by one person with a little attitude".[8] As an example, a card about the term "insurance exchange" may be reused on stories about the Affordable Care Act.[8]
The site uses Vox Media's Chorus content management system, which enables journalists to easily create articles with complex visual effects and transitions, such as photos that change as the reader scrolls.[8] Vox Media's properties target educated households with six-figure incomes and a head of house less than 35 years old.[8]
Political Stance
The Federalist's David Harsanyi described the site as treating "liberal truths as if they were empirical truths", adding that "I have no doubt Vox will explain the intellectual purity of progressive positions to many liberal readers in a lucid and entertaining way. What it probably won’t do is help anyone with genuine intellectual curiosity 'understand the news' any better."[4]
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry at The Week accused the site as "partisan commentary in question-and-answer disguise", and picking and choosing facts and arguments to fit the liberal agenda, while leaving out opposing viewpoints and arguments. He also criticized the site for the fact that its "starting lineup was mostly made up of ideological liberals."[3]
The Washington Times's Christopher J. Harper that the "liberal bias doesn’t bother me too much because it is so blatant and relatively transparent."[2]
Geoffrey Lysaught, publisher of The Daily Signal said of Vox, "What Ezra is doing has got a wild liberal bias to it."[9]
Bryon York of The Washington Examiner said of Erza Klein and Vox, "That has always been my objection to that kind of work: It is often political advocacy presenting itself as disinterested, wonkish, pragmatic analysis. It's not."[5]
James Taranto of The American Spectator characterized Vox as a "dumbed down" liberal opinion website.[10]
Washington Free Beacon editor Andrew Stiles characterized Vox's readers as "young liberal hipsters".[11]
Conservative commentator Erick Erickson called Vox's Matthew Yglesias the site's "village idiot and liar-in-chief" and that "JuiceVox" is "left-wing propaganda".[12]
Reception
The Federalist's David Harsanyi criticized the site's concept of "explanatory journalism" in an article titled "How Vox Makes Us Stupid", arguing that the website picked and choosed what facts to use in order to only reinforce their readers' progressive liberal worldview, and that "explanatory journalism" inherently leaves out opposing viewpoints and different perspectives that should be considered.[4]
The Week's Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry criticized the site, saying that "a couple months in, it's clear that much of what passes for "explanation" on Vox is really partisan commentary in question-and-answer disguise."[3]
The Washington Times's Christopher J. Harper criticized the site for its propensity for mistakes, including perpetuating untruths about the Michael Brown shooting case, reporting on a nonexistant bridge between Israel and Gaza, erroneously stating that the 2014 winter solstice would be the longest night in history, and others. He wrote that "much-ballyhooed website aiming to make journalism better and to explain the news" it "makes a lot of mistakes."[2]
The Economist considered the site concept virtuous and compared Klein's intentions with John Keats's negative capability: that Vox can recognize uncertainty without being mired in its details.[7] They connected Klein's hypothesis—that clear and well-presented information improves deliberative democracy—to Vox's site design, particularly its "explanatory 'cardstacks'".[7] The Economist also added that the essay defeats the purpose of the site, since Vox would have no audience if people were unwilling to hear information that conflicts with their core beliefs.[7]
The New York Times's David Carr associated Klein's exit for Vox with other "big-name journalists" leaving newspapers for digital start-ups, such as Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher (Re/code), David Pogue, and Nate Silver.[6]
References
- ^ "Vox.com Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
- ^ a b c http://www.washingtontimes.com, The Washington Times. "CHRISTOPHER HARPER: Vox news website needs to take serious look at how it 'reinvents' journalism". The Washingtion Times. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
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- ^ a b c "Vox, derp, and the intellectual stagnation of the left". theweek.com. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
- ^ a b c Politics. "How Vox Makes Us Stupid". Retrieved March 17, 2016.
- ^ a b "Conservatives Already Hate Ezra Klein's New Website". TPM. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Carr, David (January 26, 2014). "Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 26, 2014. Retrieved December 26, 2014.
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suggested) (help) - ^ "Heritage Foundation to launch conservative answer to Vox.com". Hot Air Headlines. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
- ^ "James Taranto: Ezra Klein's Vox Is Just 'Dumbed-Down' Liberal Opinion". NewsBusters. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
- ^ "Vox Explains Liberals". Washington Free Beacon. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
- ^ "Matthew Yglesias is Juice Vox Media's Village Idiot and Liar-in-Chief | RedState". RedState. Retrieved March 17, 2016.