Anti-vaccine activists are using the side effect reporting system to spread fear and misinformation about the COVID-19...
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Worldwide, democracy is in decline, with two-thirds of the world’s people living in autocracies, including “electoral autocracies.”...
How can historians help us overcome our biases and polarization? Bias–an “attitude held towards a person or group...
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...
The best op-ed pages operate like a town square, allowing readers to discuss and debate issues important...
Movies and songs about newsboys proliferated during the period. By Dr. Vincent DiGirolamoAssociate Professor of HistoryBaruch CollegeCity...
The accusation of bias is like kryptonite for responsible news organizations. Introduction When the Associated Press fired...
Lovejoy belonged to a small fraternity of editor who used their printing presses in the decades before...
In the quest for increased readership, newspaper editors began to publish sensational headlines and lurid stories. By...
In 1556, the government of Venice first published the monthly Notizie scritte (“Written notices”), which cost one...
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)...
“Fake news” and disinformation have been part of the conversation as far back as the birth of...
The main agenda for the doctrine was to ensure that viewers were exposed to a diversity of...
Time, like place, is socially constructed rather than ‘natural’, and so one might expect ideas of time...
These reading places confirmed the centrality of periodical print to Victorian culture. Introduction We need to know...
Broadcasters silenced Father Charles Coughlin in 1938, just as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook Trump’s incitements. Introduction In...
Starting from the reader rather than the text allows a new picture of nineteenth-century reading to emerge....
Violence, corruption, and murder dominate our modern headlines, Little has changed since execution ballads in sixteenth-century Europe....
Of the 1,770 people who wrote to the main CBS station about the broadcast, 1,086 were complimentary....
In Chicago’s 1937 ‘radio school’ experiment, technology filled the gap during a crisis. Introduction A UNICEF survey found that...
With the advent of radio, the ability of politicians to engage and entertain became crucial components of...
The coverage of Stonewall is a reminder of what’s lost when alternative media outlets wither away. Introduction...
Not only was the children’s march relegated to lesser news, it was delivered without many pictures. Images...
Propaganda tactics are timeless. While the game has moved on since the time of Augustus, the rules...
Whether you are into writing and need polishing your style, or you are a newbie trying to...