Media Matters: PR, Propaganda and Edward Bernays
Modern PR practices did not start in earnest until World War I when the government created the Committee on Public Information – an early use of propaganda to sell a war to the American public.
Richard Campbell
Media Matters: Trampling Free Speech
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington, 1783
Media Matters: New Orleans and the Emmys
The broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC – perform poorly in the Emmys these days, yet the awards show is still hosted each year by one of the Big Four.
Media Matters: Book business
Read anything good lately?
Media Matters: Zombies, screens and sunblock
When our granddaughter was 2, she had a thing for mermaid cartoons, mostly on YouTube. Then at 3, she pivoted. Zombie cartoons became an obsession, perhaps under the dark influences of her 5-year-old brother.
Media Matters: Inventing television
Philo T. Farnsworth – a character in a Dickens novel? Not even close.
Media Matters: Defunding or defending public radio
"A recent New York Times study showed that Ohio public radio stations, on average, get about 6% of their budget from federal dollars, while Mississippi's public radio stations get 30% of their budget from the CPB."