Media Matters: OFP is 2 years old!
“Local news is the glue that helps hold communities together.”
– Margaret Sullivan, former media columnist, Washington Post
Richard Campbell
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
Media Matters: TV talk under FCC surveillance
“Wait a minute, this used to be my show. It’s like driving by your old neighborhood and realizing that where you used to live, they’re putting up an adult bookstore.” – David Letterman on the demise of “The Late Show” on CBS
Media Matters: “Extra! Extra! AI just wrote this headline”
“I’m not worried about AI taking over the world. I can barely get my Roomba to clean under the couch.” – Rita Rudner, comedian.
Media Matters: Our attraction to distraction
“We are living in an attention economy and social media is addictive by design.” – Tristan Harris
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”