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
January 22, 2017Are you the people’s tribunes or are you props decorating the scene for a horrendous monologue?
January 19, 2017Those are the instruments the VORTEX plays.
January 6, 2017It’s time to wade into the swamp — or alternate universe — of right-wing media to really understand the twisted “truths” they report.
November 21, 2016Tunnel vision and faulty polls blinded television to what was happening during the election. But that's not all.
November 17, 2016Defeat has many parents, and buck-passing cannot be the national pastime.
November 14, 2016The fatuousness of anti-politics doesn't fit where we are right now.
November 10, 2016How did we get here? What’s clear is that, in a 50-50 election, little things mean a lot.
November 2, 2016A subject FBI Director James Comey has not seen fit to discuss.
October 29, 2016The Democratic contender has been disrespected like no other presidential nominee in history. Is it an accident that the rest of them were male?
