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• SOURCE: USA Today
  6/6/2020
  

  Emmett Till's Lynching Ignited a Civil Rights Movement. Historians Say George Floyd's Death Could Do the Same

  "Nothing has ever hit me harder than the image of George Floyd. When I saw that image, it brought me back to when I first saw the photograph of Emmett Till at the age of 10," says documentary filmmaker Keith Beauchamp.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  6/14/2020
  

  Hitler, the ‘Jew Crew’ and the News Kibbutz: The Crazy Roots of CNN and 24-hour News

  A new book details how Ted Turner broke the rules of the news business (and occasionally good taste) to launch CNN.   

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• 6/14/2020
  

  John F. Kennedy Did What Donald Trump Only Wishes He Could Do

  by Paul Matzko

  Rules to promote “fairness” or prevent “discrimination” can all too easily turn into tools for gaining partisan advantage at the expense of free speech, a free press, and a functioning democracy.

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• SOURCE: Letters From An American
  6/9/2020
  

  Letters From An American: June 8, 2020

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Among other topics, Professor Richardson weighs in on the New York Times editorial fiasco, arguing that Tom Cotton's op ed was too detached from fact to make any contribution to meaningful public debate. 

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• SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
  6/9/2020
  

  Will George Floyd’s Death with a Knee on His Neck Become Nation’s ‘Emmett Till Moment?’

  The black Chicago teenager’s lynching in 1955 ignited a civil rights movement. Historians say the Minneapolis man’s killing by a now-fired Minneapolis cop could do the same.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/26/2020
  

  The Link Between the Video of Ahmaud Arbery’s Death and Lynching Photos

  by Grace Elizabeth Hale

  Lynching images can only be created in a context where both killing and observing are allowed by law and society.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/18/2020
  

  The Answer to the Media Industry’s Woes? Publicly Owned Newspapers.

  by Victor Pickard

  Local democracy requires coverage of local news. As the commercial media fail to provide it, it's time to reconsider the history of municipal newspapers.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  5/4/2020
  

  Presidential Historian Takes Apart Trump’s Claim He’s ‘Treated Worse’ Than Lincoln

  Doris Kearns Goodwin added some perspective to the president’s complaint.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/27/2020
  

  During Epidemics, Media (and now Social Media) have Always Helped People to Connect

  by David Paul Nord

  For several hundred years, people have used media — reading, writing and print — to maintain human contact and community in times of epidemic disease.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/26/2020
  

  260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus

  “He doesn’t speak the language of transcendence, what we have in common,” said Jennifer Mercieca, a historian of American political rhetoric at Texas A&M University. 

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  4/18/2020
  

  How The Spanish Flu of 1918-20 was Largely Forgotten

  The Economist under-reported the pandemic. Many victims were counted among the dead of the first world war.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/19/2020
  

  Trump Has Begun His Corona Campaign. We Don’t Have to Play Along.

  by Ben Smith

  The news media can cover both stories — the central health story and the important political story —  without conflating them.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Crimson
  4/15/2020
  

  As Coronavirus Spreads, False Theories Linking Harvard Professor Lieber to Disease’s Origin Proliferate Online

  Posts falsely claiming that a Harvard professor was arrested for creating and selling the novel coronavirus have been shared more than 79,000 times on Facebook as of April 7, according to Reuters. 

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  4/14/2020
  

  Bernie Offered Us the Future. Why did He Fail—and What did We Forfeit?

  by Moshik Temkin

  Because his support is so concentrated among the young, and because the problems he vowed to fight will only get worse whether Trump or Biden wins, this movement is only likely to grow, and its next leaders might eventually succeed where he failed.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  4/6/2020
  

  A Right-Wing Influencer Claimed Native Americans Are Getting Extra Relief Aid. They Aren’t, But They Probably Should.

  The needs of Native communities, which were brutally colonized through overt violence and smallpox, a pandemic, hold a particular place in US jurisprudence—one that has long been overlooked. 

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• SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review
  3/25/2020
  

  With Trump’s Coronavirus Briefings, An Old Debate Takes On Fresh Urgency

  In media circles, the recent briefings have reignited a familiar Trump-era debate: should the networks carry them live? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/22/2020
  

  Rupert Murdoch Put His Son in Charge of Fox. It Was a Dangerous Mistake.

  The 48-year-old Lachlan Murdoch stood by as Fox News hosts played down the danger of the deadly coronavirus to their viewers. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/12/20
  

  What winning New Hampshire — and its media frenzy — could mean for Bernie Sanders

  by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

  The New Hampshire returns tell us a lot about the leading candidates.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/6/20
  

  The divisive case for giving Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom

  by Brian Rosenwald

  One of our most transformative figures has also been deeply polarizing.  

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/24/20
  

  Scandalize! Minimize! Repeat as Necessary

  by Nicole Hemmer

  Right-wing media have been laying the groundwork for Trump’s acquittal for half a century.