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How conservatives (wrongly) detect liberal bias in the news
By Christopher B. Daly Today’s NYTimes provides a clear-cut example of how conservatives often mis-read or mis-hear the news and jump to the wrong conclusion. Most of the time, conservatives are sure...
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Journalists: “Stay Safe” while on assignment
By Christopher B. Daly Journalists face an unprecedented array of threats: the traditional physical dangers of covering riots and fires; the new online threats posed by trolls; partisan attacks on...
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Trump is an unwitting ally of the media
By Christopher B. Daly Is Trump helping the media more than hurting them? Consider: After a month in office, Donald Trump’s approval rating is dropping. It was never very high. After all, he finished...
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Trump epitomizes the “charismatic leader” where power is personal
By Christopher B. Daly Nothing so aptly captures the phenomenon of Donald Trump as the social theory laid out more than a century ago by the German social thinker Max Weber. In Weber’s scheme of...
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Media Earthquake: the end of the Roger Ailes era at Fox News
By Christopher B. Daly “If you would strike at a prince, you must kill him.” –Niccolo Machiavelli The fall of Roger Ailes is an ephocal event in the history of modern news media. For a man who...
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Journalism jobs: Digital now outnumbers print
By Christopher B. Daly Two important trend lines have recently crossed, probably forever. The number of jobs in the U.S. newspaper sector has now dipped below the number of jobs in the digital media....
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Plagiarism is back (Did it ever really go away?)
By Christopher B. Daly Jeez, I hope that headline’s original. (I have this haunting feeling that it seems familiar — I better google myself to make sure. Phew. No direct hits. Now, where was I?)...
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News comes from far away. . .
By Christopher B. Daly Do we get too much information about distant conflicts, or too little? The New York Times offers two very different answers. One comes from Anjan Sundaram, a former stringer for...
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The dinosaurs of old media still shake the earth
By Christopher B. Daly Is all the coverage of Rupert Murdoch’s play for Time Warner a bit of an over-reaction? The NYTimes, for example, cleared the decks and went all-in, devoting nearly a double...
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A pox on “A pox on both their houses”
By Christopher B. Daly I spend a lot of my waking hours at the intersection of Journalism and History, two empirical fields that share a lot of DNA. It’s an interesting place to hang out, and I wish...
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Reporting on autism: wrong or dumb?
By Christopher B. Daly What does it mean that the two sides of this graphic are so out of whack? What it shows (according to Princeton prof. Sam Wang, in an article in today’s NYTimes Sunday Review) is...
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O’Reilly on O’Reilly
By Christopher B. Daly Not to be missed: this recent commentary by Tim Egan in the NYTimes about Fox News figure Bill O’Reilly and O’Reilly’s recent interview with President Obama. As usual, O’Reilly...
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Fox News: is bad news worse than no news at all?
Here is a graphic from a NYTimes op-ed distilling a 2012 study conducted by researchers in the PublicMind project at Fairleigh Dickinson University. No comment. Filed under: broadcasting, Fox News,...
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Roger Ailes revisited
By Christopher B. Daly With the release of Gabriel Sherman’s new book about Fox News boss Roger Ailes, there is a lot of commentary about Ailes. Here’s David Carr. Here’s TNR. Amid all the commentary...
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New biography of Roger Ailes
By Christopher B. Daly Looking forward to reading the new biography of Roger Ailes, the driving force behind Fox News, by Gabriel Sherman. It sounds like this is the one worth waiting for, rather than...
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Partisanship in journalism: a discussion
By Christopher B. Daly For readers’ convenience, I am posting some material that airs out the issue of partisanship in the news media. In sequence, here are: 1. A NYTimes invitation to a Sunday...
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Bring cameras into court
By Christopher B. Daly Hard to believe, but most federal courts and all military courts remain closed to cameras. That means that you and I — in other words, The People — cannot observe what’s going on...
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NY court issues a major ruling for press freedom
By Christopher B. Daly Invoking journalism history, New York state’s highest court has ruled that under New York’s state constitution and the state’s version of a “shield law,” a journalist cannot be...
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The power of narrative: NPR tells the tale of a T-shirt
A hat-tip to the talented team at NPR’s “Planet Money.” They are spinning a yarn this week about how a T-shirt is made, from start to finish. Best of all, they decided to actually make a specific...
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Preserving video news (before it’s too late)
By Christopher B. Daly Three cheers for WGBH-Tv in Boston and the Library of Congress, which are teaming up to preserve a significant trove of television news footage from public TV. According to the...
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