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Is Television Still a “Vast Wasteland”?

A “vast wasteland” was the description Newton Minow used for television programs in one of his landmark speeches. As President Kennedy’s chairman for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Minow used this metaphor to “tell broadcasters that the FCC would enforce …

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Have the Watchdogs Abandoned Their Posts?

It is well known that one of the media’s main purposes is to keep our government in check. As the trite saying goes, journalists are the “watchdogs” of Washington. However, according to Jodi Enda in Capital Flight, “Watchdog reporting …

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Investigative Journalism, Where’d You Go, I Miss you So

Seems like its been forever… since the last investigative piece of journalism that has shook the country. Now that I got my inner Fort Minor out of me, I’m curious as to why there aren’t these huge investigative stories in …

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A More Effective Use for Media in Politics

Recently in the United States, you cannot go through a single commercial break without hearing from a politician. Each commercial says something generic, usually about how they are “the better candidate” and “for America” and lists all of their positive …

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Not Just a Typo: 24 Hour News Cycle Causes Editors to Make Mistakes

It is pretty apparent that editing in the world of the news media has become a bit of an afterthought. With the high demands of a 24-hour news cycle, factual errors and typos seem to frequently slip through the cracks. …

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What War Really Looks Like

When Osama Bin Laden, the former head of al-Qaeda was killed on May 2, 2011, millions of Americans came together in great cheer. They went out into the streets shouting: “USA, USA!”, they shot off fireworks months before the fourth …

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The Necessary Evil of Advertising in Politics

When it starts to get closer to election season most people can’t wait for it to be over so they don’t have to see the political advertisements anymore. Whether they are on television, radio, or the internet, they are everywhere. …

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Introducing the Internet in Some Cultures Can Make All The Difference

Once a culture is introduced to the Internet, information is discharged at a constant frequency. Social Media, blogging, Internet news sites, and social media sites have become an equal force to conventional media such as newspapers and broadcast news. Internet …

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Politics as Usual…

It is an election year.  The year that everyone becomes a political pundit.  We are being bombarded with political ads from all directions, party conventions, speeches, and soon debates.  A year ago, Barack Obama tried to implement a major recovery …

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The Role of Social Media in Political Campaigns

Many of the people who use social media everyday could not imagine their life without it, but I wonder if they have taken the time to contemplate what the political atmosphere they are surrounded by would be like without it. …

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