media

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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.

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• 9/5/19
  

  How The Media Covered Woodstock – and How Woodstock Changed The Media

  by Harlan Lebo

  Woodstock was a milestone – not just in coverage of the music scene, but also in broader media exploration of social and economic issues that affect younger audiences. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  8/11/19
  

  Historian Tom Engelhardt Revisits His First Piece of Critical History – 48 Years Later

  by Tom Engelhardt

  How Hollywood created a spectacle of slaughter at the movies in which colonial and imperial history was flipped on its head.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/25/19
  

  Ebony’s Photo Archive Goes for $30 Million, for Future in Public View

  The vast photo archive of Ebony and Jet magazines has been sold to a group of four major foundations with a promise that it will be available to the public.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  4/24/19
  

  Filmmaker George Lucas, Wife Mellody Hobson Seek Control of Ebony, Jet Archives

  A company controlled by the couple says the archives are at risk after the recent bankruptcy of the magazines’ former publisher.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/20/19
  

  The "Historovox" and the Bad Synergy Between Historians and Journalism

  by Corey Robin

  When academic knowledge is on tap for the media, the result is not a fusion of the best of academia and the best of journalism but the worst of both worlds. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/21/19
  

  Tucker Carlson Attacks Dutch Historian and Defends His Words on Show

  Fox News host Tucker Carlson responded Wednesday to a now-viral video of an unaired interview in which he swore at a guest, calling him a “moron” and a “tiny brain."

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• SOURCE: Daily News
  1/13/19
  

  Kruse and Zelizer: It's 'Network' nation: How our media became overrun by polarization, outrage and attitude

  by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer

  While contemporary commentators have noted the ways in which the news industry has become increasingly partisan, they have not given enough weight to another, equally important aspect of the industry’s modern history — the ways in which news has become sensationalized.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  8-7-18
  

  Poll: Nearly a third of Americans say news media is the enemy of the people

  President Trump first used the characterization for the news media in a tweet less than a month into his term, proclaiming that various media outlets are “not my enemy," but the "enemy of the American People!”

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• 7-3-18
  

  The Media Have Been the Target of Violence since the Beginning of the Republic

  by Harold Holzer

  It’s always an ominous sign.

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• 6-11-17
  

  Where’s Edward R. Murrow When We Need Him?

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  His takedown of Joe McCarthy shows the power of a free media when faced with a demagogue.

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• SOURCE: The American Prospect
  4-28-17
  

  There’s a Logic to Trump’s War On the Media

  by David Greenberg

  Trump goes after the news media not because he thinks they’re strong, but because he thinks they’re weak and he can diminish them further.

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• 3-5-17
  

  So Far Only the Media Have Been Doing Their Job. Now It’s Congress’s Turn.

  by Ray Smock

  What is at stake is proving that the Trump Administration is trustworthy and honest.

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• 2-10-17
  

  Which President Held the First News Conference?

  by Alexis Cruz

  This is not as simple a question as it sounds. 

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• 11-2-16
  

  When Presidential Campaigns Began to Deploy New Media

  by Charles Musser

   It started in the 1890s.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-6-16
  

  Republicans are paying the price for their addiction to their own media

  by Max Boot

  This election year is memorable for many reasons but among the most important is showing Republicans the cost of their infatuation with “alternative” news sources.