As usual, Phil Meyer got there first. In 2005, the veteran journalist and professor spoke at an academic conference in San Antonio. “The demassification of the media did not start with the Internet,” he told a room full of people who’d long assumed otherwise. As early as the 1970s, a proliferation of broadcast outlets and...
The fourth estate, journalism, is racing to receivership unless we can rescue it from its rapacious self. The hubris hasn’t always been this bad, this blatant, or this biased, yet it worsens daily. In the town I grew up in, Nashville, Tennessee, there were two newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s, one for the morning,...
My undergraduate degree is in journalism, and my graduate degree is in history. That just means I’m interested in the history of journalism. In our constitutional republic, the importance of a free and honest press and informed citizenry can’t be overstated. As I look at the state of media today, I’m thankful that independent news...
I used to live in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, when I was young and could barely remember anything of substance. Just snippets of ragged memories. Things such as Roberto Clemente’s home run in the seventh game of the 1971 World Series. My grandparents’ grocery store, just off their kitchen, where I would steal “pop” and baseball cards,...
The digital revolution has slashed profits for companies in the business of journalism, leaving the industry to reassess a longstanding yet faulty business model, says Charles Whitaker. Four decades ago, the student rate for an annual subscription to Time magazine was $200, said Whitaker, dean of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing...
When reporters aren’t around to cover counties, municipalities, and school boards, the public lacks the basic raw material with which to practice self-government.
Don’t you hate it when you read a story in a newspaper or online, or watch a news report on TV, and the reporter seems to have completely missed the essential question? I know I do. It happens more than you think. Sometimes it’s a product of lack of time, in the case of a...
The whole truth often ends up missing in action in today's mainstream media reports.
Newspaper editors should welcome the opportunity to highlight a candidate’s unwillingness to participate in a public debate.
Today’s mainstream journalists appear more interested in protecting an ideological narrative than in reporting the truth.
Becki Gray on federal challenge to N.C. voter I.D. law; Amity Shlaes on Calvin Coolidge's legacy; lawmaker questions need for N.C. Works Online; Richard McKenzie on false impressions about orphanages; Jon Ham on media coverage of ObamaCare
