Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlin is a professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the Ph.D. program in communications at Columbia University. He is the author of 16 books, including several on journalism and politics. His next book is a novel, The Opposition. Follow him on Twitter: @toddgitlin.
ALL POSTS BY Todd Gitlin
March 20, 2017With a modest proposal for telling the audience what it doesn’t already know.
March 16, 2017Trump perfects the role of Propagandist-in-Chief.
March 13, 2017A brief note on how journalists should deal with the retailers of untruth.
March 11, 2017The view from Steve Bannon’s propaganda site will scare the bejeezus out of you, which is its point.
February 27, 2017The twisted art of intimidating with slander to help build “a new political order.”
February 16, 2017Cracks in Republican Senate servility are beginning to show, while right-wing media hang tough.
February 6, 2017Tweet storms and falsehoods designed to keep us off-balance serve the same function as "black blocs."
January 30, 2017Trump Fox News’ new commentator is Stephen Bannon with a plummier accent.
January 28, 2017In which our columnist rewrites that famous poem by Emma Lazarus at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
