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Big Media Lobbying Against Transparency
4 Apr 2012 … Corporations that own some of the country’s biggest news outlets are fighting an FCC measure to post political ad data on the Internet. Continue reading
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‘In the Dark: Media Coverage of Local Elections’ and the Power of Language in Politics
7 Jul 2004 … A hard look at how local broadcasters cover politics; the success or failure of the 9-11 commission; and a look ahead at the 2004 Democratic Convention. Continue reading
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Modern Media Madness
6 Jun 2009 … From headlines surrounding the health care debate to media frenzy over Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, NPR's On the Media host Brooke Gladstone and NYU journalism professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen sort the messages and spin from the week's Continue reading
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How Media Consolidation Threatens Democracy: 857 Channels (and Nothing On)
5 May 2017 … Earlier this week, we wrote about a pending deal between Sinclair Broadcasting and Tribune Media. Sinclair hopes to buy Tribune, a move that will allow the company to broadcast news to 70 percent of Americans. But the deal has raised Continue reading
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Using the Trump-Russia Timeline: Identifying Trump’s Tells
9 Sep 2017 … Trump dominates the news constantly. But consider the timing of his most stunning words, deeds and tweets in the context of the Trump-Russia Timeline and this question emerges: What happened in the Russia investigation to set him off this time? Continue reading
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Is Trump-Bashing Good for the Media?
8 Aug 2016 … Just about everyone now concedes that the media have it in for Donald Trump. A survey of eight major news organs during the primaries, conducted by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy — one I cited in Continue reading
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I Was a Rush Limbaugh Whisperer
2 Feb 2021 … His radio show was once a vital outlet of conservative news—and I was one of his sources. But it became increasingly divorced from reality, like much of right-wing media. Continue reading
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Goodbye to the Loudest Drunk in NPR’s Online Bar
8 Aug 2016 … Good riddance to NPR’s comment section, which is shutting down Tuesday after eight years. There has to be a better way for news organizations to engage with the public. NPR is joining a growing list of media organizations that have Continue reading
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While We Were Social Distancing
5 May 2020 … For most of Donald Trump’s presidency, it seems that the news has come at us like a firehose, spraying information, disinformation and quotable tweets. And that was before the pandemic. Now with more than 100,000 dead, presidential spectacles and unemployment Continue reading
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What Happens to Journalists When No One Wants to Print Their Words Anymore?
3 Mar 2016 … Arthur Miller’s classic 1949 Pulitzer Prize–winning play Death of a Salesman opens with musical direction: “A melody is heard, played upon a flute. It is small and fine, telling of grass and trees and the horizon. The curtain rises.” The Continue reading