Tag: US media
Fact-checking may be important, but it won’t help Americans learn to...
Taylor Dotson, New Mexico Tech
Entering the new year, Americans are increasingly divided. They clash not only over differing...
How the images of John Lewis being beaten during ‘Bloody Sunday’...
Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia
On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus...
Apple, Disney and Netflix’s streaming battle isn’t winner-take-all
Amanda Lotz, Queensland University of Technology and Ramon Lobato, RMIT University
With the recent launch of Apple TV Plus and the imminent arrival of Disney...
The strange connection between Bobby Kennedy’s death and Scooby-Doo
Kevin Sandler, Arizona State University
Scooby-Doo, one of the most enduring animated characters ever to emerge from U.S. television, celebrates his 50th birthday this month.
Created...
The deaths of 76 Branch Davidians in April 1993 could have...
Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University New Orleans
Twenty-five years ago, on February 28, 1993, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents attempted to execute a “dynamic...
Rebuilding trust in the media from the bottom up
Michael Gordon, University of Michigan
America is living in a Facebook moment, where privacy is not private; a Sinclair moment, where local is not local;...
Local media struggle to hold Sinclair accountable
Andrea Hickerson, Rochester Institute of Technology
Sinclair Broadcast Group’s stations are under renewed scrutiny following Deadspin’s release of a montage of anchors reading the same...
Disney’s potential 21st Century Fox merger continues troubling trend of media...
Margot Susca, American University School of Communication
In the U.S., only a handful of media companies control what children and adults watch and read.
Now...