Shock Jock Radio’s Impact; Political Propaganda vs. Facts
The Journal examines how rage on the radio impacts the public and politics. Plus, a look at how truth fits into the 2008 election. Continue reading The post Shock Jock Radio’s Impact; Political...
View ArticleDecoding the Political Buzzwords of Election 2012
Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg reveals the subtext behind words like "job creators" and "one percent". Continue reading The post Decoding the Political Buzzwords of Election 2012 appeared first on...
View ArticleBill Moyers Essay: Correcting Bill O’Reilly
Bill offers some fact-checks to Bill O’Reilly for false statements the Fox News icon made about him. Continue reading The post Bill Moyers Essay: Correcting Bill O’Reilly appeared first on...
View ArticleMorning Reads: Obama Calls Out Fox’s Conspiracy Theories; Christie Lashes Out
A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ. Continue reading The post Morning Reads: Obama Calls Out Fox’s Conspiracy Theories; Christie Lashes Out appeared...
View ArticleFor TV Journalists and Pundits, This Election Is Still About the Insipid
Apart from anything else he did Monday night at the Democratic National Convention, Bernie Sanders delivered a spot-on indictment of the mainstream political media and its insipid preoccupations. Said...
View ArticleWhat’s the Matter with Stephen Colbert?
Now that Jon Stewart has gone to a quieter place, no one I know of in our national culture speaks to millennials — and pre-millennials too, for that matter — more trenchantly than Stephen Colbert....
View ArticleRoger Ailes: The Man Who Destroyed Objectivity
Fox News creator and former chief Roger Ailes, who died at 77 last week from complications after a fall in his Florida home, may have been the most significant political figure of the last 35 years —...
View ArticleKissing White Male Supremacy Goodbye
Forgive me for complaining, but recent decades have not been easy ones for my peeps. I am from birth a member of the WHAM tribe, that once proud, but now embattled conglomeration of white, heterosexual...
View ArticleIt’s Not Just O’Reilly and Weinstein: Sexual Violence Is a ‘Global Pandemic’
Sexual harassment isn’t the exclusive domain of showbiz big shots. It remains alarmingly prevalent worldwide. Continue reading The post It’s Not Just O’Reilly and Weinstein: Sexual Violence Is a...
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