media

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• 10/25/2020
  

  Where Ross Douthat Goes Wrong

  by Jim Sleeper

  Jim Sleeper argues that Times columnist Ross Douthat's brand of conservatism fixates on a supposed liberal cultural domination while ignoring the right's long path to consolidating power through the law, institutions and the threat of physical force. 

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• SOURCE: Untapped New York
  10/19/2020
  

  New PBS Documentary on New York Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell

  Walter Winchell's gossip-driven approach to the news made him famous; his fame helped publicize the dangers of Nazism and overcome American isolationism before World War II. A new PBS documentary considers his career and legacy.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  10/11/2020
  

  Trying to Make Social Media ‘Fairer’ Poses Dangers for Republicans

  by Paul Matzko

  While trying to force media to be “fair” sounds good in theory, waging political campaigns via regulatory policies can backfire.

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• 10/11/2020
  

  Paul Revere Made the Boston Massacre a Flashpoint for Revolution.

  by Philip Gerard

  The incident that became known as the Boston Massacre didn't have to happen, and didn't have to become a flashpoint for violence after. As political tensions break into violence today, it's worthwhile to think about Boston in 1770.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/30/2020
  

  The Debate Showed That Treating Trump ‘Fairly’ Only Helps Him Cheat

  by Brendan Nyhan

  "Will the media accurately describe Trump’s attacks on the election as dangerous and anti-democratic? Or will they run faux-neutral headlines like “Pure chaos on election night” if he says the vote is being stolen and tries to declare victory before all the votes are counted?"

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9/21/2020
  

  My Life in the Media Machine

  by Tom Scocca

  Independent journalism has been in a decades-long death spiral because "the circulatory system of money that had made the writing possible was punctured and bleeding out, and draining into Silicon Valley."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/6/2020
  

  How Latinos Can Win the Culture War

  by Elizabeth Méndez Berry and Mónica Ramírez

  Latino/a Americans can secure their place in America against racist and nativist attacks by demanding representation in the news and entertainment media. The media have been important sources of power in the past, but are still not representative of American demographics. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/23/2020
  

  The Cool-Media Approach to Conventions

  The Democrats were forced out of the old, and figured out the new. How will Republicans respond?

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/25/2020
  

  The Never-Ending War Between the White House and the Press

  A review of Harold Holzer's new book "The President vs. The Press."

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• 7/19/2020
  

  Barry Zorthian's War: The Pentagon and the Press in Vietnam

  by Ron Steinman

  A 1970 speech by Barry Zorthian, the Pentagon's chief public information officer in Vietnam, shows a thoughtful approach to balancing the rights of journalists with the need of the military to control information. That approach is missing in the era of "fake news" and open hostility by the administration for the press.

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• 7/12/2020
  

  Marshall McLuhan: The Man Who Predicted the Internet and Warned Us of its Dangers

  by Ludovic Rembert

  These days, most of Professor McLuhan's "global village" is kept in private and confined spaces: the village plaza is Facebook, a space that is operated for commercial purposes, restricting our discussions and absorbing our private data within our conversations and searches to sell it to advertisers.

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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.