Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Sunday, August 3, 2025

PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy

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  Champions of the almost entirely party-line vote in the U.S. Senate to erase US$1.1 billion in already approved funds for the Corporation...
Saturday, March 22, 2025

Exhausted by the news? Here are 6 strategies to stay informed without getting overwhelmed − or misled by misinformation

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  Political spin is nothing new, and identifying reliable news and information can be hard to do during any presidency. But the return of Do...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

What should journalists do when the facts don’t matter?

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  Most people agree that actual facts matter – in such activities as debate, discussion, and reporting. Once facts are gathered, verified, a...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

What is 'catch and kill' journalism?

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  The First Amendment protects the freedom of press , meaning the government cannot interfere with journalists’ work or punish them for wha...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Journalism’s trust problem is about money, not politics

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  Journalism faces a credibility crisis. Only 32% of Americans report having “a great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in news reporting – a...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Objectivity in journalism: A fair but flawed idea?

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  A common critique of news today is that journalists have an “agenda.” People want journalism to present facts, not opinions or biases. It’...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

What you do matters

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  After spending a few days in Washington, D.C. recently for an editors conference, I found myself with a few hours before my plane back to ...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Anyone can claim to be a journalist or a news organization and publish lies with almost total impunity

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  Headlines in early March 2023 implied Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch had made a damning confession . He had affirmed that some of his most ...
Saturday, November 9, 2019

Democrat or Republican, Americans are angry, frustrated and overwhelmed

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  As the country looks ahead to President Donald Trump’s possible impeachment proceedings, as social scientists, we anticipate that not only...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Misinformation, hoaxes and hyperpartisan news

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  “Misinformation” is Dictionary.com’s word of the year. The site defines it as “false information that is spread, regardless of whether the...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Lata Nott: The lazy person’s guide to being a good citizen

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  You sometimes suspect that you’re not as well-informed as you should be. When you read about that study that found that middle school kid...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Gene Policinski: Hello Facebook! Welcome to the wide, wild world of news media

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  Forgive me for a little old-fashioned smirking when following the digital-era dilemma of Facebook having to own up to some human involveme...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Gene Policinski: With Post purchase, Bezos has chance to remake newspaper model

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  Jeff Bezos made it clear in founding Amazon.com that he can compete in the marketplace.   We’ll just have to wait and see if he can...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Gene Policinski: Watergate Era: ‘A’ peak in journalism

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  Forty years ago this week, The Washington Post – and its self-described “young and hard-digging reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernste...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Sam Fulwood III: The American media diet

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  My cyber-friend Eric Garland, whom I wrote about late last year, recently undertook an intriguing experiment. He eschewed U.S.-based Eng...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Ken Paulson: After Newtown: The real toll of ‘journalistic bedlam’

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  I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so much flawed reporting as in the news coverage surrounding the horrific school shootings in Newtown, Conn. ...