journalism

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  3/19/2023
  

  How One News Desk Got Iraq Right When Others Failed

  by John Walcott

  The former head of Knight-Ridder's national security desk explains how his agency passed by the agency bigshots, interviewed experts and analysts closer to the intelligence, and followed up on red flags that others missed in the runup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, instead of protecting their access to the administration. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/7/2023
  

  Fox's Handling of the "Big Lie" was Cowardly, but Not Unusual

  by Kathryn J. McGarr

  News organizations' standards of objectivity have long allowed public figures and politicians to proclaim lies without pushback, leaving the public to be arbiters of truth and falsity. 

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• SOURCE: Hollywood Progressive
  3/1/2023
  

  "Mr. Jones" Shows Fake News Has Always Been a Weapon Against Ukraine

  by Walter G. Moss

  The new Amazon feature "Mr. Jones" details the famine imposed on Ukraine by Stalin's policies in the 1930s, and the battle among journalists to control the story. It's a timely reminder of the connection of information and power. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2/20/2023
  

  Is the Times Repeating Past Mistakes in its Transgender Reporting and Editorials?

  The paper's now-notorious reluctance to cover the growing AIDS crisis and insistence on using clinical terminology like "homosexual" to describe gay men are now seen as failures of journalism. Is the paper's recent coverage of transgender issues following the same path? 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/13/2023
  

  Evidence of Political Pressure in Firing of West Va. Radio Reporter

  Insiders claim a growing pattern of political pressure from the office of Governor Jim Justice to use the threat of defunding to defang public radio coverage of state affairs. 

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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: Jewish Currents
  1/19/2023
  

  Antisemitism is Resurgent. Why are News Organizations Screwing Up the Story?

  When journalists turn to representatives of legacy Jewish organizations as authentic voices of American Jewry, they often end up generating reporting about antisemitism that strips away historical nuance and fails to accurately describe the forces driving attacks on Jews today. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  11/1/2022
  

  How Gael Greene Reinvented the Restaurant Critic

  Greene wrote about restaurants as arenas for the display of status and a part of the city's culture, the way that the dining public did. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/18/2022
  

  Katherine Corcoran's Book Examines the Killing of Mexican Journalist Regina Martinez

  While a book by the former AP Mexico City bureau chief shows the depth of corruption and political violence in Mexico, it also shows the integrity and courage of Mexican citizens and journalists who dare to demand better. 

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• SOURCE: Saturday Evening Post
  10/10/2022
  

  Journalist Dorothy Thompson's Warnings About Fascism – Abroad and at Home

  by Ben Railton

  After being expelled as a journalist from Germany for criticizing Hitler, Dorothy Thompson worked to make clear to Americans what fascist movements stood for and how they could take root in the soil of racism and nativism here. 

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• SOURCE: Current
  9/14/2022
  

  How a Major Christian News Organization Lost its Way

  by Marvin Olasky

  The Christian news magazine "World" once combined a religious perspective with editorial independence and investigative reporting. Today's Christian nationalist climate has no room for that, says the former editor. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/31/2022
  

  Emmett Till's Lynching Catalyzed the Reactionary Denunciation of the "Liberal Media"

  by Chris Lamb

  To reactionary Southerners and white supremacists, media accounts of Emmett Till's murder had to be dismissed as "fake news" and countered with their own misinformation. 

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• 7/31/2022
  

  Kathryn Olmsted's "Newspaper Axis" Shows Media Extremism Nothing New

  by Kathryn Smith

  FDR's success in promoting the New Deal and rallying Americans to the defense of Europe against fascism was a triumph over the nation's right-wing newspaper barons. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/26/2022
  

  The Racist Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was Exposed 50 Years Ago

  The study ran for 40 years, as nearly 400 Black men were diagnosed with syphilis but denied care so that scientists could study the progression of the disease, even after penicillin was available as an effective and safe treatment. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  7/25/2022
  

  How an AP Reporter Broke the Tuskegee Syphilis Story

  Fifty years ago, Jean Heller revealed the horrifying truth that the US government had been denying hundreds of Black men treatment so they could study the progress of the disease. 

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• 6/19/2022
  

  Watergate at 50: Did Kennedy Loyalists Squelch a 1968 "October Surprise" that Could Have Beaten Nixon?

  by James H. Barron

  Did Democratic party insiders bury the story of Richard Nixon receiving campaign funds from the Greek military junta because they disliked the Greek exile journalist who broke the news? 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/12/2022
  

  From Trust in Institutions to Partisan Polarization: The Legacy of Watergate at 50

  Garrett M. Graff calls the events set in motion by the 1972 burglary a dividing line in history that changed the political culture forever. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/4/2022
  

  The Debate Renews: Show Images Victims of Mass Killings in the Press?

  by Jelani Cobb

  Mamie Till's decision to place her son's open casket in the national media shone a light on Jim Crow atrocities, but it's unclear that showing the victims of gun massacres – even children – is making any difference. Photos of hundreds of lynching victims only encouraged their killers.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/6/2022
  

  Publicizing Pictures of Dead Children Will Backfire on Gun Control Advocates

  by John Temple

  "Maybe one day some editors will have a picture of a dead child even more powerful than the one we published that will finally make a difference."

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• SOURCE: Politico
  5/23/2022
  

  Why are Historians at War with the New York Times?

  Politico's media columnist argues that the paper's outsize role in the culture is driving the anger of historians whose uncredited work was foundational to the paper's recent series on Haiti's debt payments to France.