Media Matters: The Reading Problem – Part II
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” --George R.R. Martin
Richard Campbell
Media Matters: The Reading Problem – Part I
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz
Media Matters: 'Biased,' 'Boring' and 'Bad'
These words – biased, boring, and bad – describe U.S. teenagers’ “perceptions of news media and journalism,” according to the latest News Literacy Project.
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.
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