Front cover of the New Orleans Bee newspaper from April 7th 1917, reporting the U.S. entry into the First World War. Scanned from the Jefferson Parish Library archives. Public domain image.
In our next episode, out Tuesday, we ask ourselves what exactly people are referring to when they talk about “the media” and “bias.”
Reading List:
Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him, by Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper and Carl Bernstein - CNN
These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia, by Ken Bensinger, Miriam Elder and Mark Schoofs - Buzzfeed
Trump's assault on CNN and BuzzFeed, explained, by Zeeshan Aleem - Vox
Americans' Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low, by Art Swift - Gallup
Editorial: Unfettered press needed for the public good – Connecticut Post
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, by Marshall McLuhan – robynbacken.com
Social Media is Mass Media, by Sean Gelles – EContent Magazine
Social Media is not Mass Media, by Robert Young - Gigaom
Advertising as Education, by Cynthia B. Meyers – A Word from Our Sponsor
A History of the Donald Trump-Megyn Kelly Feud, by Paola Chavez, Veronica Straqualursi and Meghan Keneally – ABC News
Palin trashes 'lamestream media,' By Andy Barr - Politico
Bernie Sanders’ next challenge? Fighting corporate media, by Caitlin Abber – Public Radio International
Bernie Sanders takes aim at 'corporate media' in New Hampshire, by Dan Merica - CNN
The Fall and Rise of Partisan Journalism, by James L. Baughman – University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics
Fauquier Times-Democrat drops 'Democrat,' by the Associated Press – Richmond Times-Dispatch
Media Hoaxes, by Fred Fedler - Amazon
The "Yellow Fever" of Journalism, by Jennifer Vance – A Brief History of Newspapers in America
U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism, 1895–1898 – U.S. State Department Office of the Historian
Adolph Simon Ochs – Encyclopedia Britannica
The lost meaning of ‘objectivity’ – American Press Institute
Re-thinking Objectivity, by Brent Cunningham – Columbia Journalism Review
Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time, by Herbert J. Gans – Northwestern University Press
Six questions that will tell you what media to trust, by Tom Rosenstiel – American Press Institute
9 questions to help you evaluate the credibility of news sources, by Vicki Krueger – Poynter
Deconstruction Guide for Evaluating a News Source – University of South Florida
Music Notes (in order of appearance):
Steve Combs - News Breaks And Shortly After So Do I (The Pop Song)
Scott Holmes – Big Apple
Dave Depper – Swagger 1
Benny Golbin – Blues for Oliver
“News Breaks And Shortly After So Do I (The Pop Song)” and “Blues for Oliver” used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. “Big Apple” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. “Swagger 1” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license.