A Quiet Book for our Very Loud Time
Charlie Mackesy's illustrated book explores love, fear, acceptance and belonging. It's a perfect anecdote for our anxious age.
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October 2020
China’s Perfecting the Tools of a Propaganda State
The future of propaganda is now. We're watching it with China's media response and social media control of information related to the Hong Kong protests.
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July 2019
Instagram Food Is a Sad, Sparkly Lie – Eater
Those food shots you see on Instagram aren't about eating what's in the photo. Instead, they showcase the privilege of being somewhere where such food exists to begin with.
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June 2019
Americans Hate the Media
Where goes truth when a new Gallup poll indicates American trust in the media is (yet again) at an all-time low?
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September 2016
Getting to Know What We Do Not Know
A new study shows how little we know about current and historical events. This affects strategies for how we understand and process the news.
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September 2016
When Spike Jonze Makes a Perfume Commercial
He makes a most interesting perfume commercial.
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September 2016
Language, Militias and Occupation
What should the media call an armed group that takes over federal property and makes political demands? Oregon gives us a chance to consider.
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January 2016
Publishing the News When it’s Already Everywhere
What do publishers and news consumers do in a world of infinite choice?
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May 2015
Let’s Praise Books… Unless We Don’t Need to Read Them
We love books but there’ve been too many for about 500 years now.
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April 2015
Welcome to the Filter Bubble
Republicans hear what they want to hear. Think everyone supports them.
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October 2013
Politico: Obama’s a Puppet Master
Politico complains that Obama plays the press. Same as it ever was: Every president's played the press.
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February 2013
Dazzling. Deceitful. Distracting.
How news organizations are covering fact and fiction in the 2012 presidential campaign.
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August 2012
Best and Worst in Olympic Media Gold
The good. The bad. The brutal. Welcome to the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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August 2012
Pussy Riot and Massacres
Pussy Riot gets the headlines. Meantime, killings and massacres continue. Why the media covers what it covers.
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August 2012