Media Matters: YouTube, the elephant in the room
For those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, our parents worried about too much TV viewing. That seems like child’s play in comparison to this age of smartphones and on-demand video.
Richard Campbell
Media Matters: Bill Kovach's 'Journalism of Verification'
“It is the discipline of verification,” Bill Kovach once wrote, “that separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.”
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.
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.