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O See, Can You Say
Between the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill and an anonymous op-ed from within the Trump White House, a wave of rule-bending and -bre…
7 years, 6 months ago
CNN's Lanny Davis Problem
Six weeks ago, CNN broke a blockbuster story: According to several anonymous sources, President Trump had advance knowledge of the infamous Trump Tow…
7 years, 6 months ago
Face the Racist Nation
For more than a year, Lois Beckett [@loisbeckett], senior reporter at The Guardian US, has been showing up at white nationalist rallies, taking their…
7 years, 6 months ago
Summer Series Episode 4: Tectonic Edition
After an earthquake struck Nepal in April of 2015, the post-disaster media coverage followed a trajectory we'd seen repeated after other earth-shakin…
7 years, 6 months ago
Fallout
End-of-times narratives themselves are nothing new; only the means have changed. While once a few horsemen and a river of blood were enough to signal…
7 years, 6 months ago
Summer Series Episode 3: Airline Crash Edition
When a commercial plane goes down, media speculation ensues. With the help of The Atlantic's James Fallows, we give you some tips that can help you c…
7 years, 7 months ago
Twitch And Shout
Twitch.tv is a video streaming platform where tens of thousands people broadcast their lives and video game game-play in real-time. It's like unedite…
7 years, 7 months ago
Summer Series Episode 2: Military Coup Edition
Back in the summer of 2016, Turkish putschists shut down highways, attacked government buildings and took broadcasters hostage, world media outlets s…
7 years, 7 months ago
Planet Fire
People like neo-nazi Andrew Anglin and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have long tested the limits of permissible speech. On this week’s On the Media,…
7 years, 7 months ago
Summer Series Episode 1: US Storm Edition
For media professionals, hurricanes offer the very best kind of bad news because the story arc is predictable and invariably compelling. In this summ…
7 years, 7 months ago