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SOURCE: Mother Jones
1/26/2023
Remembering Victor Navasky: Editor was a "Ringmaster" at "The Nation"
As the editor of the left-leaning magazine, Navasky was comfortable allowing (and sometimes encouraging) liberals, socialists, and radicals of other varieties duke out their intraleft disagreements in print.
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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: Nieman Lab
1/10/2023
The Good News and the Bad News about (Mis)Information – Historians Included
Recent studies of media consumption and conspiracy theory adherence suggest misinformation is not terribly influential on political behavior. Unfortunately, neither is mythbusting, given the social and cognitive complexity of belief.
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SOURCE: New York Magazine
1/3/2023
Ms. Magazine Turns 50
The current editors of Ms. consider the publication's legacy as a maker, not just a reporter, of news.
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SOURCE: Vox
12/20/2022
Are Conservatives Really Pulling Ahead in the Comedy Race?
Does a ratings boost for Greg Gutfeld's late-night show mean that today's conservatives are the funny ones and liberals are too "woke" to laugh? Answering the question means looking past party loyalty to ask what makes humor, says humor historian Teresa Prados-Terreira.
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SOURCE: Politico
11/2/2022
Musk Just Latest in Right's Push To Acquire Media Platforms
by A.J. Bauer
The history of conservative media acquisitions reflects the anxiety on the right that their ideas are broadly unpopular.
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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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8/28/2022
Who and What to Believe about Ukraine?
by Walter G. Moss
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war test our ability as citizens to be aware of our biases in search of information and understanding.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
8/24/2022
How Stokely Carmichael Inspired the Most Boring Channel on TV
Brian Lamb saw the Black Power advocate speak in a church in the 1960s, and then saw the news media distort his speech. This experience led to CSPAN, the anti-sound bite contribution to public discourse.
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SOURCE: WORT
8/12/2022
Nicole Hemmer on Alex Jones and the Right-Wing Media Machine
Will Alex Jones's expensive defeat in court slow down the spread of conspiratorialism in right-wing media?
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SOURCE: YouTube
8/3/2022
Remember Vin Scully With His Classic Call of the Last Outs of Sandy Koufax's Perfect Game
The legendary broadcaster's ability to say just enough to frame the drama of a moment without overshadowing it was on full display on September 9, 1965 at Dodger Stadium.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/25/2022
Shark Hysteria Began More than a Century Ago
A series of attacks on the Jersey Shore in 1916 sparked a wave of sensationalism and a national "war on sharks" that continues today.
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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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