Media Matters: Our attraction to distraction
“We are living in an attention economy and social media is addictive by design.” – Tristan Harris
Richard Campbell
Media Matters: TV westerns refuse to die
“Well, the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, as far as I’m concerned. I’d like a chance to shoot at an educated man once in my life.” - Augustus McCrae, “Lonesome Dove”
Media Matters: ‘The Pitt,’ a TV metaphor for our times
“‘The Pitt’ implores us not to rush to judgment and not to assume the worst.” – Frank Bruni
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."
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