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Safe to assume, for the purposes of BPP, that it is more interested in web traffic than accuracy.Ģ. A quick look at its other headlines (“What does your poo say about you?” “Man arrested after strolling naked through Wal-Mart”) will tell you that it can be politely described as a fishwrapper. The accompanying article, by James Nye, was headlined “China starts televising the sunrise on giant TV screens because Beijing is so clouded in smog.” Let’s say you’re not familiar with the Daily Mail. Who is telling me this? More specifically, who is writing this and for what publication? How credible is the publication? What are its potential biases? Consider a piece of bullshit that made the Internet rounds earlier this year: The UK’s Daily Mail published a striking photo of a sunrise projected on an outdoor screen. No prior experience is required: Though it’s possible to spend a lifetime debating the finer points of BPP (and the sorely-needed news literacy movement wants high-school and college students to spend at least a semester doing so) its general principles, listed in a handy, portable, and free- free!-form above, are simple.ġ.

So I believe that everyone should practice BPP before publishing. While BPP is not failsafe, generations of crotchety, underpaid, truth-loving journalists have found that it dramatically reduces one’s chances of publishing bullshit. It’s publishing.) And publishing bullshit is extremely destructive: It makes it harder for the rest of us to distinguish between bogus news and something real, awful, and urgent. (Sharing a piece of news with 900 Facebook friends is not talking. Especially because we’re all publishers now. Lately, as I’ve watched smarter and better-dressed friends believe all manner of Internet nonsense, I’ve come to appreciate my familiarity with BPP. But I am not often-knock wood-wrong in print, and that’s because, as a journalist, I’ve had advanced training in Bullshit Prevention Protocol (BPP). I’m overly optimistic about the future quality of Downton Abbey, and inexact in my recall of rock-star shenanigans. I misunderstand I misremember I believe things I shouldn’t. Shop here for the original, and here for a SFW version. Shameless merch update: Want the Bullshit Prevention Protocol on a T-shirt, sticker, poster, mug, or onesie? Sure you do.

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