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SOURCE: Boston Globe
1/14/2021
How Heather Cox Richardson Built a Sisterhood of Concerned Americans
Heather Cox Richardson's successful newsletter and growing grassroots media stardom reflects Americans' hunger for historical understanding but also, especially among her female readers, for a calm and compassionate style of analysis.
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1/17/2021
The Free Press and Democracy in a "Murder the Media" Age
by Wendy Melillo
Journalism as a profession needs to embrace its historical role as a guardian of democracy and refuse to let objectivity work as a shield for authoritarianism; authoritarians won't accept a free press anyway.
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SOURCE: New York Times
Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom. It’s Working
NYT media reporter Ben Smith looks at the phenomenon of Heather Cox Richardson's newsletters, which have become popular for their long view of the present moment and rejection of sensationalized outrage.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
11/29/2020
The Cost of Trump’s Assault on the Press and the Truth
New Yorker editor David Remnick writes that while Trump is not the first president to battle the media, his apparent belief that the press exists as his public relations agency--and anger that it doesn't work that way--are leading him to attack a fundamental institution of society with deadly consequences.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/17/2020
The Outrage Peddlers Are Here to Stay
Campus Reform seeks to "stoke outrage at ‘liberal’ professors, with the political intent of creating a viral sensation that circulates through a highly partisan right-wing media ecosystem, and into the broader public discussion,” says Isaac Camola, a political science professor who has been active in organizing professors who are targeted by outrage campaigns.
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SOURCE: Leominster (MA) Champion
11/16/2020
Fitchburg State Professor Named to Library of Congress Task Force
Fitchburg (MA) State University professor Katherine Rye Jewell has been named to a Library of Congress task force for the preservation of college and community radio.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/12/2020
Trump Ruled Conservative Media As President. Will He Find His Next Job There?
by Nicole Hemmer
If, as appears increasingly certain, Donald Trump leaves the presidency in January, will he return to his natural habitat of the media?
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/8/2020
Elections Don’t Have to Be So Chaotic and Excruciating
by Stephen I. Vladeck
A uniform procedure for publicizing the vote count can eliminate the chaos of haphazard vote counts and remove the opportunity for candidates to portray the normal process of counting votes as irregular or crooked.
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
11/5/2020
President Trump’s False Claims about Election Fraud are Dangerous
by Sid Bedingfield
Elected officials' use of the media to claim election fraud has resulted in violence in the past; the news media must take responsibility to avoid fanning the flames.
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
11/3/2020
Good TV Demands Results on Election Night, But that’s Bad for Democracy
by Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Election night 2020 promises to test whether the media has learned from failures of the past.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/28/2020
New York Times, CNN Sullied By ‘Anonymous’ Charade
by Eric Wemple
Post media critic Eric Wemple says the media allowed "Anonymous" to float the belief that responsible public servants were checking the worst impulses of the Trump administration when, in fact, they accomplished nothing of the sort.
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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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