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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?
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12/19/2021
Journalism is Under Siege in Hong Kong
by Luwei Rose Luqiu
The Hong Kong government's increasingly confrontational response to critical journalism is a troubling indicator of a willingness to engage in authoritarian restrictions of the press in the name of national security.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/10/2021
How do you Teach Kids about Climate when They've Been Raised amid Cultivated Doubt?
Although young Americans are more likely to accept the scientific consensus on climate change, there is a significant portion who doesn't, making science education another culture war battleground.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/13/2021
The Media Needs to Acknowledge the African American History in Barbecue
by Adrian Miller
As industry has reduced the labor intensity of barbecue and the media has made culinary celebrities, contemporary white chefs have supplanted the African American pitmasters who were once considered indispensable to the art.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/16/2021
Post's Margaret Sullivan: After 20 Years of Afghan Debacle, Media Fixed Blame in 2 Hours
The tendency to filter a complex and historically deep story through the perspective of short-term political advantage has been on full display this week, says the Post's media columnist.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/14/2021
How Tucker Carlson Became the Voice of White Grievance
"What emerges is a portrait of an ambitious television personality who came of age in privilege — having grown up in an upper-class enclave and attended private schools — but who, by his own telling, is a victim."
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SOURCE: Knightlab
6/29/2021
Fists of Freedom: A Storymap of Responses to the Olympics Protest of John Carlos and Tommie Smith
by Lou Moore
Louis Moore presents an interactiv graphic exploration of media responses to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics protest of American sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
6/8/2021
Emily Wilder and Journalism's Longstanding Achilles’ Heel – Partisans Who Cry Bias
by Matthew Jordan
Outrage campaigns against the news media like the one that pushed the AP to fire a young journalist recently are nothing new; they are a longstanding tactic to push the press to alter its coverage.
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5/16/2021
Historians' Perspective on Media Bias: Where it Came from, and What Can be Done?
by Walter G. Moss
Historical perspective shows that media bias is nothing new, but the stakes for democracy are high today. Can historians teach and practice better ways of reading and debating to fight polarization and misinformation?
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