A Fox News internal document is critical of pro-Trump Fox regulars for spreading ‘disinformation.’
By Will Sommer, Maxwell Tani, Andrew Kirell @ The Daily Beast
Category: journalism
Trump questions why NPR exists
Both NPR and PBS operate independently and are not censored or controlled by government officials, differentiating them from other nations’ propaganda outlets, such as Russia’s RT.
A recent Pew survey showed that 31 percent of U.S. adults trust NPR, while 10 percent distrust the media outlet. ABC News is the most-trusted media organization in the U.S., with 48 percent saying they trust the outlet. It was followed by NBC News and CNN (both at 47 percent). CBS News was ranked third (at 45 percent).
By Jason Lemon @ Newsweek
Jim Lehrer, Respected Anchorman for PBS, Dies at 85
“I’ve always seen this as a preserve of serious news. It’s not magic, and it’s not saintly. We’ve been doing it for 36 years, and we’ll continue doing it. Others won’t. That’s their problem.”
By Cheryl Cheng @ The Hollywood Reporter
PBS Newshour remembrance
Homewreckers
How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Shady Banks and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream
By Aaron Glantz @ C-SPAN (59:37)
C-SPAN Radio
The C-SPAN app may be downloaded here as well.
Intro to Mass Communication
An introduction and overview of mass communication.
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Right-Wing Star Andy Ngo Exits Quillette After Damning Video Surfaces
The writer and photog is out of a job after being caught in incriminating undercover footage with right-wing activists. His former employer insists the two events aren’t related.
By Will Sommer @ Daily Beast
Slow Journalism
Just the thing for an August afternoon
By Doyle McManus @ Los Angeles Times
Social media’s conspiracy theory problem isn’t going away
And it doesn’t help that we have a president who routinely endorses, or retweets, conspiracy theories, ensuring they stay in the public eye even longer.
By Brian Resnick @ Vox
FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat
The FBI acknowledges conspiracy theory-driven violence is not new, but says it’s gotten worse with advances in technology combined with an increasingly partisan political landscape in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election.
By Jana Winter @ Yahoo News
New 5-year deal for PBS CEO, new YouTube pact for public TV
Paula Kerger, who joined the Public Broadcasting Service as president and CEO in 2006, told a TV critics meeting Monday that she committed to stay in the job for five more years because of her belief in “the purpose and power of public television.”
By Lynn Elber @ ABC News
Associated Press names Sally Stapleton to manage new global religion team
A $4.9 million grant from the Lilly Endowment for the AP’s new religion team represents one of the biggest investments in religion news coverage in decades.
About 1% of the U.S. population watches Fox News, the most watched cable news network, during prime-time
By Eric Schaal @ The Cheat Sheet
From January through August 2018, Fox News viewers were “94% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian, and 1% Black.”
ABC World News has “more than three times the number of viewers taking in Fox News. NBC Nightly News tripled Fox’s audience” @ The Cheat Sheet.
Fox News under fire
By Sara Fischer @ Axios
A series of damning reports over the past week has forced Fox News to issue statements addressing its values and judgement as a news company.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responds to WSJ opinion piece
By Louis Casiano @ Fox News
I guess WSJ Editorial Page takes pride in their ignorance of our nation’s history of slavery, Jim Crow, & mass incarceration; willful doubt on decades of science on climate change; targeting of indigenous peoples, and the classist, punitive agenda targeting working families.
Retrospect
Compulsion–first a novel, then a play and finally a movie based upon the infamous 1924 murder by Leopold and Loeb–was written by Meyer Levin.
An exceedingly brief news story
Jeffrey Rosen, a longtime litigator at Attorney General Bill Barr’s law firm, nominated to be deputy attorney general.
A more in-depth examination of the story @ Reuters
The Media’s ‘Religious Left’ Is Erasing Marginalized Communities of Faith
Commentary by Harmeet Kamboj @ Sojourners
The stakes of politics are highest for those on the fringes of society, and our communities have been far from silent about the life-threatening injustice we face at the hands of the Trump administration. Framings of the “Religious Left” often deny non-Christian communities their agency. Ultimately, the onus is on journalists to abandon such simplistic constructions.
The Weekly Standard, influential conservative magazine, will shutter
By Paul Farhi @ The Washington Post
In the Trump era, the Standard has differentiated itself from other conservative publications, including the Examiner, by maintaining a skeptical and sometimes oppositional tone regarding the president.
Are there invisible forces at work in the world?
By Heather Woods and Leslie Hahner @ The Conversation
How mainstream media helps weaponize far-right conspiracy theories.
Nothing on this page is real
By Eli Saslow @ The Washington Post
How lies become truth in online America.
YouTube Lets California Fire Conspiracy Theories Run Wild
By Caroline Haskins @ Vice
…the point isn’t that these conspiracy theorists are wrong. They obviously are. The point is that vloggers have realized that they can amass hundreds of thousands of views by advancing false narrative, and YouTube has not adequately stopped these conspiracy theories from blossoming on its platform, despite the fact that many people use it for news.
More @ BBC
These are the most and least biased news outlets in the US, according to Americans
By Pat Ralph and Eliza Relman @ Business Insider
A Gallup/Knight Foundation survey results for how biased respondents thought each news outlet was overall, ranked from most to least biased.
Fox News Channel beats MSNBC, CNN combined in October viewership
By Brian Flood @ Fox News
All ratings info courtesy of Nielsen Media Research.
Have a Little Faith
Why the News Media Gets Religion Wrong
Samuel Freedman is a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
The Right To Speak
Should all speech, even the most offensive, be allowed on college campuses? And is hearing from those we deeply disagree with … worth it? This hour, TED speakers explore the debate over free speech.
Slow news
The former publisher of the “Register Guard” newspaper Logan Molen joins OPB to discuss the 24-hour news cycle, the financial pressures newspapers everywhere are facing and how he thinks the idea of “slow news” could affect the industry. The family-owned “Register Guard” newspaper was sold earlier this year to the GateHouse media company, a move which shook many of its readers and subscribers. Molen is one of the keynote speakers at the University of Oregon journalism school’s “Slow News” conference
a rare intempestivity 