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Spice, Spice baby
Dave and Pete discuss why it matters that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer allows friendly outlets to ask questions at press briefings. CJR co…
9 years, 8 months ago
The Jake Tapper-Kellyanne Conway showdown
Why are so many news organizations expanding into Australia? What is the state of health journalism as Obamacare hangs in the balance? Why were so ma…
9 years, 9 months ago
Objectivity and Trump's refugee ban
How has Breitbart used memes to build a huge audience on Facebook? Should journalists' notion of objectivity change in the face of immoral or un-Amer…
9 years, 9 months ago
Avoiding Trump's trap with "alternative facts"
Is the Trump Administration trying to bait aggressive reporters when it offers up "alternative facts"? What does a recent New York Times report tell …
9 years, 9 months ago
The ethics of BuzzFeed's decision to publish Trump-Russia memos
Did BuzzFeed make the right call by publishing unverified memos detailing Russian efforts to compromise Donald Trump? How is The Undefeated, a new pu…
9 years, 9 months ago
Fox News and life after Megyn Kelly
What does Fox News' primetime lineup say about its direction under the Trump Administration? Why should we care about the fate of the publishing plat…
9 years, 10 months ago
Looking back on a tumultuous year in journalism
What media trends from 2016 were the most alarming? The most encouraging? We discuss that and more this week on The Kicker, where CJR's David Uberti,…
9 years, 10 months ago
Richard Deitsch on the state of sports media
How does the atrophy of local media affect the way we understand sports? Are professional athletes getting more political, or are we just noticing it…
9 years, 10 months ago
Thomas Jefferson on fake news
Should a bad tweet be a fireable offense for reporters? What can the history of fake news tell us about the challenge facing journalism today? Who ar…
9 years, 10 months ago
Michael Rosenwald on the enduring primacy of print
Should mainstream journalists be engaging more with the right-wing press? Was print media too quick to jump on the digital bandwagon? Why do foreign …
9 years, 11 months ago