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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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