Broadcasters silenced Father Charles Coughlin in 1938, just as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook Trump’s incitements. Introduction In...
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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...
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war”. In this and like communities, public sentiment is...
George Washington tired of those he called “infamous scribblers”. By Harlow Giles Unger “American Nation Debauched by...
When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of...
When ABC brought William F. Buckley, Jr., and Gore Vidal together, the media became more interested in...
Remembering what one of last century’s most courageous Jewish journalists taught us. By Peter Dreier In this...
Thanks to Ida Tarbell, we’re not to afraid to expose the shenanigans of the super-rich. Over the...
If, as historians, we took such a turn, we could open up new horizons for historical scholarship....
A scheming and salacious newspaper reporter targeted Hamilton and Jefferson – and nearly ruined them. It is...
As we commemorate Memorial Day, the drama behind the headlines announcing Germany’s surrender in World War II....
From the air and on the ground: the reporters who told the HIroshima and Nagasaki stories to...
He believed that faster news meant diminished quality. According to a recently released Pew Center survey, almost...