News

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/30/2023
  

  America's Lost Faith in the News

  by Louis Menand

  Politicians' success in demonizing and discrediting unfriendly news media threatens to undermine "the facts" as a shared social reality. Is anyone prepared to live in that world? 

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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: Harper's
  8/17/2021
  

  Selling the Story of Disinformation

  Today's concern with "disinformation" has roots in the postwar advertising industry, but do programs to fight it repeat faulty ideas about information and persuasion that admen created to persuade companies their ads would work? 

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• 5/30/2021
  

  The War Beat, Pacific: How the American News Media Went to War Against Japan

  by Steven Casey

  Censorship, technological limitations, and competition with news from Europe in World War II made the early part of the Pacific theater a "shrouded war," but not for lack of effort by war journalists. 

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• 3/14/2021
  

  FDR and the Need for Truth

  by Stephen Dando-Collins

  Franklin Roosevelt took a novel approach to handling bad domestic and military news in 1943, amid stiff political opposition: showing the public the hard truth about the Pacific War. 

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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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• 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: 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: Reynolds Journalism Institute
  2/27/19
  

  What journalists miss when they ignore history

  by Kathryn Palmer

  Media historian Earnest Perry explains why journalists should put more history in the headlines. 

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• SOURCE: AP
  2/11/19
  

  Historians challenge Northam’s ‘indentured servants’ remark

  Featuring historians Rebecca Goetz and Michael Guasco. 

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• SOURCE: JStor
  8-27-18
  

  How TV Transformed the News in 1968

  In 1968 violent events at home and aboard were broadcast in color on the television news, creating impacts that may have swayed the presidential election.