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Why Does Anyone Take Andrew Breitbart Seriously?

Christopher Martin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:08:42 +0000

Andrew Breitbart has a job to do and he does it well. Breitbart’s job is to lie and distort the truth in order to advance a right-wing agenda, embarrass liberals, and undermine the Obama administration. Breitbart is not a journalist, researcher, or pundit. He is a propagandist. Read the entire post by Peter Dreier and Christopher [...]

Spitting, racial and gay slurs? Just isolated instances of emotions running high

Christopher Martin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:02:25 +0000

On the Saturday, March 20, the weekend of the historic health care vote in Congress, Tea Party protesters outside of the Capitol apparently spit on and hurled racial and gay slurs at Democratic lawmakers. Republican Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Amy Kremer, coordinator of the Tea Party Express, both denounced the incidents, and characterized [...]

Links to News Reports on ACORN Study

Christopher Martin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:52:31 +0000

Harold Meyerson, “For ACORN, Truth Lost Amid the Din,” Washington Post, September 23, 2009. University of Northern Iowa, “Profs: Why ACORN was in the news in ‘07-’08, and what the media got wrong,” Romenesko, September 23, 2009. Alicia Shepard, “The ACORN Videos: Did NPR Ignore Them?” NPR, September 23, 2009. Michael Calderone, “Study: Media’s been wrong on ACORN,” [...]

ACORN Study co-author Dreier on Rachel Maddow Show, 9-24-2009

Christopher Martin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:38:48 +0000

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Manipulating the Public Agenda: Why ACORN Was in the News, and What the News Got Wrong

Christopher Martin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:18:58 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A study by Christopher R. Martin, Ph.D. and Peter Dreier, Ph.D. Using the controversy over ACORN as a case study, this report illustrates the way the media help set the agenda for public debate, and frame the way that debate is shaped. It describes how “opinion entrepreneurs” (primarily business and conservative groups and individuals) [...]

Conservative Media Concocts Phony Mainstream Media Conspiracy over ACORN

Christopher Martin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:14:55 +0000

“ACORN Story Grows but Mainstream Media Refuse to Cover It.” That complaint from a Fox News headline nicely sums up conservative allegations of a mainstream media conspiracy: there is a huge story about ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) that Fox is covering, but the mainstream media are not covering because (in the words [...]

The News Media’s Low Standards for the High Office

Christopher Martin — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:10:45 +0000

It's at times frustrating to watch the national news media cover the caucus campaigning in Iowa -- as if we're all about ethanol, hogs, and loose-meat sandwiches.

No Time to be Neutral on Net Neutrality

Christopher Martin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:06:45 +0000

But now major telephone companies and cable companies, which control 98 percent of broadband access in the U.S. (through DSL and cable modem service), would like to dismiss net neutrality give faster connections and greater priority to clients willing to pay higher rates.

The Shame of the Media

Christopher Martin — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:45:55 +0000

Murdochâ€™s conglomerate has once again gone shameless with a book and Fox broadcast special called If I Did It. Developed by Judith Regan, the former National Enquirer writer who has her own ReganBooks imprint at HarperCollins, If I Did It delivers the acidic reflux of the O.J. Simpson case. You remember O.J. Simpson...

Cable TV a la carte

Christopher Martin — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:03:13 +0000

Some channels can be free â€“ such as the Home Shopping Network, which is essentially one nonstop commercial. Most channels charge roughly between 30 cents and $1. But, a few channels, mostly sports channels, charge $2 to $3 or more per subscriber. ESPN is most notorious among cable companies, as it has increased it per-subscriber fee more than 20 percent for each of the last five years.