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.”
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.
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.”
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.
“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.
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.
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