Posts Tagged journalism
Policy and Polarization
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Free Speech on April 18th, 2010
Numbers cruncher Nate Silver took a look at the recent New York Times poll of people who consider themselves supporters of the Tea Party movement, and noted that media habits were the most salient predictor of such support. According to Silver, “Tea-partiers are disproportionately attached to, and perhaps influenced by, FOX News. And they are [...]
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Good Journalism
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on December 11th, 2009
Jim Lehrer recently announced a change of name and some changes of format to what was previously the McNeill Lehrer report. As one blogger who reported on the changes noted, Lehrer has consistently approached the news with a certain seriousness and depth that is virtually non-existent on television anymore. Last week in a piece about the show’s latest [...]
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This Worries Me a Lot
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on September 9th, 2009
Every couple of years, I team up with the Dean of the Journalism school at IUPUI to teach a course in Mass Media and Public Affairs. To suggest that it is challenging to describe the relationship between sound information and public policy would be a definite understatement! It was challenging even before newspapers began failing, and [...]
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