There is no journal with a livelier and richer history than The Spectator. As well as being the world's oldest current affairs magazine, none has been closer over the last two centuries to spheres of power and influence in Britain. First issued in 1828, during the dying days of the Georgian era, The Spectator came out ready to spar - with the ......
The Life and Works of Writer and Cartoonist Ted Carroll
This book is a celebration of legendary African American sports writer and boxing cartoonist Ted Carroll, whose career spanned one of the most exciting periods of boxing's past, from Joe Louis to Muhammad Ali. His experiences and commentary are of great historical significance, encompassing issues of race, sport, culture, and society.
What's Wrong with Mainstream News Media in America and How to Fix It
A Future for the News: What's Wrong with Mainstream News Media in America and How to Fix It investigates and offers solutions to significant problems with the productive functioning of the mainstream news media. Criticism of the mainstream news media is almost a national pastime in America, and widespread polling shows credibility ratings of ......
What's Wrong with Mainstream News Media in America and How to Fix It
A Future for the News: What's Wrong with Mainstream News Media in America and How to Fix It investigates and offers solutions to significant problems with the productive functioning of the mainstream news media. Criticism of the mainstream news media is almost a national pastime in America, and widespread polling shows credibility ratings of ......
The Erosion of Truth and the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump
Award-winning journalist Nathan Bomey argues that Trump did not usher the post-truth era into being. He was its inevitable outcome. Bomey points to recent trends that have created the perfect seedbed for spin, distortion, deception, and bald-faced lies- shifting news habits, the rise of social media, the spread of entrenched ideologies, and the ......
This book traces the history of American journalism, from the first Colonial newspapers to todays news conglomerates. It is a narrative and analytical survey that draws on many standard works, including the authors own research. It explores all forms of the news media: newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and digital.
This book analyzes the narratives and news coverage of 9/11 across ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News--the five most important American television news networks at the time. Though America's collective memory of the key events of 9/11 have solidified, Paul Arras demonstrates how muddled and chaotic the experience was due to the unique difficulties ......
Automated Journalism at the Intersection of Politics and Black Culture: The Battle Against Digital Hegemony explores the unintentional inequities that erupt when AI assistance meets news media. Colin Campbell argues that while AI newswriting can streamline news production, it can also exacerbate racist discrimination and perpetuate harmful ......
Becoming the Second City examines the development of Chicago's press and analyzes coverage of key events in its history to call attention to the media's impact in shaping the city's cultural and historical landscape. In concise, extensively documented prose, Richard Junger illustrates how nineteenth-century newspapers acted as accelerants that ......
The September 11 attacks produced great changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for "the enemy." Americans in combat areas became literal targets ......
The September 11 attacks produced great changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for ''he enemy.'' Americans in combat areas became literal targets of antiU.S. Sentiment. Behind the lines, editors and bureau chiefs scrambled to reorient priorities ......
An exploration of how our sense of politics, morality and culture is affected when we are exposed to gruesome images of accidents and disasters, murder and execution, grief and death. The author argues that documentary photography, for all the horror it reproduces, ultimately defines a democracy.
This book provides strategies fpr building back truth online. It provides solutions so that we can repair our existing social media platforms and build better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties, and promote access to trustworthy information.
The first comparison of the breast cancer and prostate cancer movementsCancer Activism explores the interplay between advocacy, the media, and public perception through an analysis of breast cancer and prostate cancer activist groups over a nearly twenty-year period. Despite both diseases having nearly identical mortality and morbidity rates, ......
When that research paper comes due and you've forgotten your style manual, get the guidance you need quickly with the Chicago Manual of Style QuickStudy (R) guide. Based on the 16th edition of CMS, this handy, easy-to-carry three-panel guide contains the information you need for writing academic papers to CMS specifications, pared down to the ......
A searing study of the intersection of journalism, fiction, and traumatic violenceTo attract readers, journalists have long trafficked in the causes of trauma--crime, violence, warfare--as well as psychological profiling of deviance and aberrational personalities. Novelists, in turn, have explored these same subjects in developing their characters ......
In view of the tumultuous, conflictual, and divisive global environment; Russia's military attack on Ukraine; and anti-government uprisings in Iran and elsewhere, this timely book explores the crucial roles that media, war, religion, and politics play in impacting people and forming public opinion around the world. Prominent and accomplished ......
