The Media’s Beto Obsession is Harmful
The white, male privilege of Beto O’Rourke’s campaign offers him a frequency and tone of media coverage unavailable to most candidates of color and women candidates.
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Congress is Divided, and so is the Media: 2018 Midterm Coverage
On election night, the Democrats won the majority in the House of Representatives, taking at least 30 seats from the Republicans. The Republicans won the majority in the Senate, flipping at least two seats in their favor. The results of this election have many people
Pre-Election Putin Propaganda Put On Pause
Putin was recently called out for violating election rules in a scheduled re-broadcasting of “The Putin Interviews”
Facebook’s Russian Ad Sale: More of what we already knew?
“Inauthentic” Russian-linked Facebook accounts and pages were found to have bought ~3,000 ads on the social media site.
The World News You Missed This Week – May 1st, 2017
See what you missed this week: From France and India, to Turkey and Venezuela.
Op-ed: Postmortem – The Polls Weren’t the Problem, Journalism Was
This is the fifth piece in a series of op-eds about polling in the election. Read the previous piece here. John E. Newhagen is an associate professor emeritus at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Post-election analysis is awash with commentary and analysis asking how
Donald Trump’s Bastard Child: Fake News
Trump has taken advantage of the distrust in the establishment, and used his authority to validate fictional stories. With Trump’s support for misinformation, the fake news industry has found great success outshining real news and making its way to politicians’ Twitter feeds. According to a
Flipping the Script on Conservative Media Critiques
The media world has remained in a state of collective shock following the election of Donald Trump, and has questioned where they went wrong while struggling to figure out how to improve and regain the trust of the American public. Within this whirlwind, The New
A Different Demographic: Daytime Television and The Election
Society relies on the media to communicate new information and events happening all around the world. But what about daytime television talk shows like The View, The Talk, or Ellen? These talk shows produce viral videos, interview prominent figures in society, and reach millions of
Why Don’t Scandals Move the Needle in Election Polling?
Despite repeated scandals and gaffes on either side of what has been a consistently antagonistic and even volatile election, media coverage of these blunders has done little to shift American voters towards or away from their candidate. To anyone paying attention to this presidential election