Tag: US media
The cautionary tale of ‘Dilbert’
Chris Lamb, Indiana University
Dilbert, the put-upon chronicler of office life, has been given the pink slip.
Sports broadcasters have a duty to report injuries responsibly – in...
Nicole Kraft, The Ohio State University
Injuries are an unfortunate part of any sport – none more so than...
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.
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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;...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
