Media Matters: Meta caves … is YouTube next?
In 2025, 36% of teens said they use at least one of the top five social media platforms “almost constantly,” according to the Pew Research Center
Richard Campbell
Media Matters: Rock ‘n’ roll … and race
“If I could find a white boy who could sing like a black man, I’d make a million dollars.” - Sam Phillips, Sun Records
Media Matters: Presidents, publishers and ‘Citizen Kane’
“You know, Mr. Thatcher, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.”
– Charles Foster Kane
Media Matters: Local news and state support
“The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.”
–Bill Moyers
Media Matters: OFP is 2 years old!
“Local news is the glue that helps hold communities together.”
– Margaret Sullivan, former media columnist, Washington Post
Media Matters: Objectivity and news – a history lesson
“My job is to spend half the time repeating what one side says, and half the time repeating the other. Little thing called 'objectivity' – might want to look it up….” – ‘Senior Media Correspondent’ Rob Corddry to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show (2004)
Media Matters: ‘Bowling Alone’ revisited
“I've never lived in such a civically-active place my whole life as Oxford. I joke that if you walk too slowly down the street you'll get drafted onto a committee.” – David Prytherch