The survey shows a stark difference between how Americans view national versus local media. Polling released Wednesday...
Media
Media shape how information reaches the public and how societies understand events. Explore the technologies and institutions that transformed communication while influencing culture and political life.
What’s true and what’s not? An expert in media literacy explains how to evaluate information. Introduction Have...
One problem contributing to the perception of bias is the blurred lines between news and opinion. Another...
Many people define ‘bias’ as ‘anything that doesn’t agree with me.’ But are the news media really...
Equipping individuals with knowledge and empathy to engage in productive dialogue. With so many media outlets in...
Heated political themes prevail on these sites, which draw praise from their users and skepticism from other...
Whether it is the war in Ukraine or other devastating news, people find it hard to sustain...
Negativity bias is the tendency to give far more attention to negative details than positive ones. Imagine...
The end of the 20th century brought light to one of the greatest developments in media streaming....
The term “yellow journalism” originated during the circulation battles between Joseph Pulitzer and William Hearst. Introduction Yellow...
It was a tabloid-like publication, with lurid coverage of murders, Wild West outlaws, and sport. Introduction The National...
Established news media have played a vital role in mainstreaming radical right actors and their beliefs. The...
How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II and enabled Hitler....
The news can take a mental and psychological toll on a person. Introduction It began with a...
How can we stay (reasonably) anxiety-free when the media bombards us with stressful headlines? It may seem...
Complaints go beyond concerns about selective facts or obvious partisanship. Introduction Tune in to a conservative podcast...
Calling 21st-century fascism by its name is an essential condition to defeating it. Just before Thanksgiving break, former...
Anti-vaccine activists are using the side effect reporting system to spread fear and misinformation about the COVID-19...
Worldwide, democracy is in decline, with two-thirds of the world’s people living in autocracies, including “electoral autocracies.”...
The daily deluge of information produced by the news media can drown consumers in confusion and anxiety....
America’s public sphere is broken because propaganda has replaced political communication. Introduction The U.S. is in an...
No other large media organization in the United States leans on its protections like Fox News. By...
How evolving information and communication technologies (ICTs) can influence the mass media and contribute to social and...
Defining media, society, culture, and communication broadly. By Dr. Mark PoepselAssociate Professor of JournalismSouthern Illinois University The Role...
Advertising has always been about tapping into consumers’ existing needs or about creating a need and inserting...
These new technologies made it possible to influence the public opinion of whole populations at once. By...
Despite his reservations about the dangers of propaganda, President Roosevelt created the Office of War Information (OWI)...
The main agenda for the doctrine was to ensure that viewers were exposed to a diversity of...
Restoring trust in journalism is a necessary step to rebuilding our fractured republic. The ugly message “Murder...
Of the 1,770 people who wrote to the main CBS station about the broadcast, 1,086 were complimentary....