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Tag archive for ‘Public Media’

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.”

<p></p><p>Transform Me, Please…

Transform Me, Please…

by: Tara McPherson / University of Southern California
I have to confess that the chance to ‘look ten years younger’ in ten days has its appeal.

<p></p><p>Women Watching Sports

Women Watching Sports

by: Janet Staiger / University of Texas at Austin
I knew something had changed when I called my then-mid-70-year-old mom in Omaha several years ago on a Saturday afternoon before Christmas to ask her about clothing sizes for gifts and she responded: “I can’t talk now. Texas is beating Nebraska for the Big XII Championship.”

<p></p><p>Why Fox News is a Good Thing

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.

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.

<p></p><p>“Citizen versus Consumer”: Rethinking Core Concepts

“Citizen versus Consumer”: Rethinking Core Concepts

by: Michele Hilmes / University of Wisconsin-Madison
Every so often a core concept emerges in an historical or theoretical field that serves a purpose at the time of its invention but slowly loses its explanatory power…

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.

<p></p><p>A Column About Columns

A Column About Columns

by: Horace Newcomb / University of Georgia
I wanted to provoke talk and thought about television, to show that it could be taken seriously.

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.