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On Atonement
News outlets have apologized for past racism. That should only be the start.
by
Alexandria Neason
via
Columbia Journalism Review
on
January 28, 2021
A Conservative Activist’s Quest to Preserve all Network News Broadcasts
Convinced of rampant bias on the evening news, Paul Simpson founded the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.
by
Thomas Alan Schwartz
via
The Conversation
on
July 26, 2018
Once Upon a Time, Los Angeles Voters Created Their Own Newspaper
The story of the Los Angeles Municipal News, and the hope — and limitations — of publicly owned newsrooms.
by
Matt Pearce
via
mattdpearce.substack
on
March 4, 2024
Keeping Speech Robust and Free
Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News' coverage of claims that the company had rigged the 2020 election may soon become an artifact of a vanished era.
by
Jeffrey Toobin
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 7, 2023
The New York Times is Repeating One of Its Most Notorious Mistakes
The paper’s anti-trans coverage parallels its failings over gay rights and AIDS. But the Times appears determined not to learn from its own history.
by
Jack Mirkinson
via
The Nation
on
February 20, 2023
"Public Opinion" at 100
Walter Lippmann’s seminal work identified a fundamental problem for modern democratic society that remains as pressing—and intractable—as ever.
by
André Forget
via
The Bulwark
on
September 16, 2022
'The New York Times' Can't Shake the Cloud Over a 90-Year-Old Pulitzer Prize
In 1932, Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for stories defending Soviet policies that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians.
by
David Folkenflik
via
NPR
on
May 8, 2022
Printing Hate
How white-owned newspapers incited racial terror in America.
via
Howard Center For Investigative Journalism
on
September 1, 2021
American Journalism’s Role in Promoting Racist Terror
History must be acknowledged before justice can be done.
by
Channing Gerard Joseph
via
The Nation
on
April 19, 2021
partner
The Campus Underground Press
The 1960s and 70s were a time of activism in the U.S., and therefore a fertile time for campus newspapers and the alternative press.
by
Liza Featherstone
via
JSTOR Daily
on
January 6, 2021
partner
How Fear of the Measles Vaccine Took Hold
We’re still dealing with the repercussions of a discredited 1998 study that sowed fear and skepticism about vaccines.
via
Retro Report
on
October 15, 2019
Maligned in Black and White
Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?
by
Mark I. Pinsky
via
Poynter
on
May 8, 2019
The Trigger Presidency
How shock jock comedy gave way to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.
by
Ben Schwartz
via
The New Republic
on
April 24, 2019
20 Years Later, Columbine Is The Spectacle The Shooters Wanted
Searching for meaning in the shooters’ infamous “basement tapes.”
by
Andy Warner
via
The Nib
on
April 17, 2019
When Richard Nixon Declared War on the Media
Like Nixon, Trump has managed to marginalize the media, creating an effective foil.
by
Matt Giles
via
Longreads
on
November 8, 2018
Trump is Not the First GOP President to Try to Make the Media ‘Fair’
Conservatives love rules about political balance — when they’re in charge.
by
Nicole Hemmer
via
Washington Post
on
August 29, 2018
The Story Behind the First-Ever Fact-Checkers
Here's how they were able to do their jobs long before the Internet.
by
Merrill Fabry
via
Made By History
on
August 24, 2017
From the Pentagon Papers to Trump: How the Government Gained the Upper Hand Against Leakers
We may be entering a post-Pentagon Papers era that shifts the power back to political elites, who are ever more emboldened to go after leakers.
by
Margot Susca
via
The Conversation
on
June 15, 2017
That Ain't Cool
Capturing the 1968 DNC.
by
Sammy Feldblum
via
The Baffler
on
August 20, 2024
Time to Face Reality
Charting the history of a TV phenomenon.
by
A. S. Hamrah
via
Bookforum
on
July 2, 2024
The Crack-Up
John Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” renders the signal political battles of the present in an entirely new light.
by
Chris Lehmann
via
The Baffler
on
June 21, 2024
The Battlefields of Cable
How cable TV transformed politics—and how politics transformed cable TV.
by
Jesse Walker
via
Reason
on
August 15, 2023
They Did It for the Clicks
How digital media pursued viral traffic at all costs and unleashed chaos.
by
Aaron Timms
via
The New Republic
on
April 18, 2023
Ask the ‘Coupologists’: Just What Was Jan. 6 Anyway?
Without a name for it, figuring out why it happened is that much harder.
by
Joshua Zeitz
,
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
,
Scott Althaus
,
Matt Cleary
,
Ryan McMaken
via
Politico Magazine
on
August 19, 2022
Daniel Schorr and Nixon’s Tricky Road to Redemption
Nixon portrayed himself as a victim of the press. But from the 1952 Checkers speech through his post-presidency, he proved to be an able manipulator of the media.
by
Ryan Reft
via
Tropics of Meta
on
February 25, 2022
The Myth of the “Pinto Memo” is Not a Hopeful Story for Our Time
Drawing analogies between industries can be instructive. But only if we do it right.
by
Lee Vinsel
via
Medium
on
October 21, 2021
The Fairness Doctrine Sounds A Lot Better Than It Actually Was
A return to the fairness doctrine wouldn't curb the damage caused by the far-right media ecosystem fueling much of America's conspiracy-driven politics.
by
Nicole Hemmer
via
CNN
on
January 27, 2021
partner
Understanding Today’s Uprisings Requires Understanding What Came Before Them
The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
via
Made by History
on
August 11, 2020
How the Tet Offensive Undermined American Faith in Government
Fifty years ago, the January 1968 battle laid bare the way U.S. leaders had misled the public about the war in Vietnam.
by
Julian E. Zelizer
via
The Atlantic
on
January 15, 2018
partner
Why Trump’s Assault on NBC and “Fake News” Threatens Freedom of the Press
Restricting the press backfires politically.
by
Jordan E. Taylor
via
Made by History
on
October 12, 2017
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