Media Matters: Trusting the news
"Alongside this decline has come a significant loss of trust in the news media – with one remarkable exception: local news."
Richard Campbell
Media Matters: Wil Haygood – ‘Solo Voyager’
I first met Wil Haygood, a 1976 Miami University graduate, in spring 2013. He delivered Miami’s commencement address, beginning his talk with the trailer for “The Butler.”
Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching
Journalist Ida B. Wells spent much of her career as a journalist in the late 1800s shedding light on the horrors of lynching. Some historians say she was the most famous Black woman in the U.S. during her lifetime.
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
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.