Tag archive for ‘News’
Interview with Sara Leeder, Segment Producer for CNBC’s “Topic [A] with Tina Brown”
by: Hollis Griffin / FLOW Staff
Sara Leeder: “For me, the hardest thing about working in a 24-hour news environment is keeping myself constantly attuned to what ‘the news’ is, when ‘the news’ is always changing.”
Interview: Jason Reich, writer on The Daily Show
by: Chris Lucas / FLOW Staff
Jason Reich: “I think that part of the reason what we do is so frequently perceived as ‘liberal’ is because we’re talking about the news, and these days, the people making the news are, by and large, conservatives…”
Media Left Out?
by: Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont
Never has the need for media reform been more obvious, more urgent, or — judging by everything from Moveon.org surveys to downloads of the Jon Stewart Crossfire clip — more popular.
Why Fox News is a Good Thing
by: Toby Miller / University of California, Riverside
A closer look at the supposed differences between Fox News and its cable news competitors.
Funny Politics
by: Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University
It is commonplace to observe that television, like everything else, is increasingly global these days. What is happening on the other side of the world is shown and commented upon instantaneously in news programming.
Fairness Doctrine Now! Will it really hush Rush?
by: Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College
We cannot blame this one on the media. There was no spin, no agenda setting, and no spiral of silence powerful enough to excuse the electorate.
The New “F” Word: Indexed Out of the Election Debate
by: Bill Herman / University of Pennsylvania
The most important question here is what actually happened on Election Day; most communication researchers are ill-equipped to do this.
News Corporation: From the Local to the Global
by: John Sinclair / Victoria University, Melbourne
At the end of last month, October 2004, Rupert Murdoch won shareholder approval to move News Corporation’s domicile and main stock market listing from Australia to the US.
Media Spectacle and the Wired Bush Controversy
by: Douglas Kellner / UCLA
During a media age, image and spectacle are of crucial importance in presidential campaigns.
“Print the Money”: Mediating the 2004 Elections
by: Anna Everett / University of California at Santa Barbara
The title of this essay derives from a telling remark made by ubiquitous network news super star journalist Tim Russert following the third Presidential Debate on October 13, 2004 . . .
Undecided Voter
by: Chris Anderson / Indiana University
Squirrel hunting once was a lovely way for a man to pass an autumn afternoon…
Homework
by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
The first presidential debate garnered predictable media excitement.
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