The End of News? From the New York Review of Books.
Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, discusses the decline of the mainstream media and the ideal of objectivity:
Accuracy in Media (1969), the
Center for Media and Public Affairs (1985), the abolition of the
Fairness Doctrine (1987),
Rush Limbaugh (1988),
Fox News (1996),
weblogs,
cost-cutting at newspapers. Of course, the newspaper business has always been a difficult one, as Walter Lippmann noted in his book
Public Opinion (1921): [more inside]
posted by russilwvong
on Nov 14, 2005 -
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Red State/Blue state France.
Les résultats département par département. Remarkable that the U.S. isn't the only country that's split down the geographic middle. No translation, but the picture speaks for itself.
posted by jfuller
on May 30, 2005 -
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What's So Absurd About Partisanship? The
Lying in Ponds* website is a clever attempt to measure partisanship in the daily columns of the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Although - or perhaps because - its methodology is simple and straightforward, its conclusions, though necessarily unsurprising, are quite interesting, often amusing and seem fairer than er, more
partisan "media watch" thingies [
Don't miss their 2002 Top Ten.]. But
why is being openly partisan seen as such a terrible thing in America? Why is so much time and effort expended to hide it or deny it? Or, put another way, why is bipartisanship such a desirable thing, often presented as being somehow
above politics? Is it American exceptionalism again?
*[Echoing what Dennis said in Monty Python And The Holy Grail: "Listen!Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!"]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Sep 27, 2002 -
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