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He Said, She Said 23 Apr 2012 | 02:49 am
Are reporters and editors obligated to present both sides in any controversial news story? You hear that question a lot these days. Increasing political polarization is manifesting itself in demands...
A World Without Polls 8 Feb 2012 | 05:03 pm
How often have you heard someone ask what life was like before cell phones, or TVs, or the Internet? Here’s another one: what were politics like before public opinion polls? Polling is ubiquitous the...
Journalism’s Image Problem 7 Jan 2012 | 01:00 am
You know those TV ads in which a new car buyer is swept into a room full of reporters, photographers and video cameras, and then asked a couple of softball questions, like “how much do you like your n...
Separating Fact from Everything Else 16 Dec 2011 | 08:21 am
I have signed on as a volunteer for the News Literacy Project, which is an attempt by journalists to help middle and high school students separate facts from fiction in what purports to be news these ...
Is Journalism Giving Away its Brand? 26 Nov 2011 | 04:13 am
Daily newspapers, these days, find themselves between a rock and a hard place. The dilemma has to do with how should they gather the news and then where to put it: in the traditional (printed) newpap...
History Gets a Drubbing on the History Channel 3 Jun 2011 | 12:29 am
This blog is about how media impacts culture and society. Television continues to exert an oversized influence on American life, and so its content — what it shows viewers — remains important, even a...
Message Force Multipliers 7 May 2011 | 03:04 am
In 2004, I taught a course to graduating seniors at Miami University of Ohio. I had complete freedom to design the course contents, so I developed a curriculum on what I called the “symbiotic relatio...
NY Times 1Qtr Report Reveals Much about the Media Environment Today 23 Apr 2011 | 01:07 am
Unless you’re an investor, you probably skipped over the New York Times’s first quarter financial report. But if you want to understand what’s happening in the media space today, the report provides ...
What Do You Want? 15 Apr 2011 | 01:34 am
A recent article in the Washington Post caught my attention because its author, Tom Rosenstiel, touched on something essential about what content is most prized today. I’m one of those who believes t...
Stop Me if You’ve Heard This: Online News and Ads Overtake Newspapers 16 Mar 2011 | 02:00 am
UPDATE: Sure enough, the Times announced (March 17) that it would begin charging all but its newspaper subscribers for accessing online content. The pay-for-content plan is tiered, enabling online sur...
