media

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• SOURCE: Politico
  11/2/2022
  

  Musk Just Latest in Right's Push To Acquire Media Platforms

  by A.J. Bauer

  The history of conservative media acquisitions reflects the anxiety on the right that their ideas are broadly unpopular. 

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• SOURCE: Current
  9/14/2022
  

  How a Major Christian News Organization Lost its Way

  by Marvin Olasky

  The Christian news magazine "World" once combined a religious perspective with editorial independence and investigative reporting. Today's Christian nationalist climate has no room for that, says the former editor. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/31/2022
  

  Emmett Till's Lynching Catalyzed the Reactionary Denunciation of the "Liberal Media"

  by Chris Lamb

  To reactionary Southerners and white supremacists, media accounts of Emmett Till's murder had to be dismissed as "fake news" and countered with their own misinformation. 

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• 8/28/2022
  

  Who and What to Believe about Ukraine?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war test our ability as citizens to be aware of our biases in search of information and understanding. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  8/24/2022
  

  How Stokely Carmichael Inspired the Most Boring Channel on TV

  Brian Lamb saw the Black Power advocate speak in a church in the 1960s, and then saw the news media distort his speech. This experience led to CSPAN, the anti-sound bite contribution to public discourse. 

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• SOURCE: WORT
  8/12/2022
  

  Nicole Hemmer on Alex Jones and the Right-Wing Media Machine

  Will Alex Jones's expensive defeat in court slow down the spread of conspiratorialism in right-wing media? 

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  8/3/2022
  

  Remember Vin Scully With His Classic Call of the Last Outs of Sandy Koufax's Perfect Game

  The legendary broadcaster's ability to say just enough to frame the drama of a moment without overshadowing it was on full display on September 9, 1965 at Dodger Stadium. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/25/2022
  

  Shark Hysteria Began More than a Century Ago

  A series of attacks on the Jersey Shore in 1916 sparked a wave of sensationalism and a national "war on sharks" that continues today. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/7/2022
  

  Matthew Barton is the Man Behind the Library of Congress's Recorded Sound Division

  "Ah, well, that’s it. This is the national parks of culture, of history, of memory."

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  4/27/2022
  

  Musk's Twitter Bid Harkens Back to Hearst

  Richard White and Brad DeLong consider how the megabillionaire's bid for Twitter stacks up against other efforts by the ultra-rich to build media empires – is it more about attention and less about advancing financial interests? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/25/2022
  

  False Accusations of "Fascism" at Democrats, Like Those Biden Faces, are Nothing New

  by Jon Marshall

  Glenn Beck's accusation that Biden is leading a global elite cabal of fascists doesn't have to make sense when it spreads around the world on social media and cable TV. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/20/2022
  

  Journalists and Academics: Stop Fighting!

  by Maggie Doherty

  How can academics and journalists better understand the relationship between their two camps? 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  4/20/2022
  

  Tucker Carlson Heralds Yet Another "Crisis of Masculinity"

  by Mona Charen

  Tucker Carlson's recent examination of testicular tanning as a boost to manliness shows the need for societies to support pathways to male expression that don't lead to violence or painful sunburns. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  3/20/2022
  

  Why is the News Media so Hawkish?

  by Mark Hannah

  Editorial choices made by influential news organizations can push policy in the direction of more aggressive intervention. A media scholar asks why those organizations have consistently chosen to boost the voices of advocates for war.

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• 3/13/2022
  

  A New Kind of Memory for a New Kind of War?

  by Shannon Bontrager

  "The terrain of combat has changed, digital images are just as important as ammunition and digital platforms are just as important as factories and military hardware."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/25/2022
  

  War as a Spectator Event

  by Nicole Hemmer

  It's necessary to consider the ethics and morality of consuming warfare as a spectator event, and to temper emotional reactions spurred by images of suffering with understanding of their context. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  2/9/2022
  

  What Happened When I Went on Joe Rogan's Podcast

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  There are many reasons to lament the misinformation spread by Joe Rogan, but shunning him won't help him use his massive platform more wisely. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/23/2022
  

  Reviewed: The BBC: A People's History

  David Hendy's book was built on complete access to BBC archives, but a reviewer finds that it's long on bureaucratic history and short on analysis of the programming that made the Beeb a national institution. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/20/2022
  

  Trump's NPR Interview Shows the Hazard of Giving Him Airtime

  by Federico Finchelstein

  The history of fascism shows that it's a mistake for the news media to treat propagandists as honest actors. They'll exploit the free press to promote their ideas, but crush independent journalism at the first opportunity.

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• SOURCE: Psyche
  12/15/2021
  

  The Danger of Media Consolidation isn't New: Ask Upton Sinclair

  by Maia Silber

  Upton Sinclair saw the problems of the media in terms of profit and power. Walter Lippmann saw them in terms of psychology and trust. What were the consequences of Lippmann's diagnosis winning out?