Posts Tagged media
The Trust Conundrum
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging, Uncategorized on November 27th, 2011
I was recently asked to participate in a panel exploring current levels of trust and distrust in government. Among other things, we were asked to consider what citizens might do to mitigate the growing cynicism about politics, and whether we thought the current media environment was contributing to widespread distrust of government at all levels. [...]
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TMI
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on August 24th, 2011
I have been working on an upcoming speech on government accountability, and I have been mulling over a seeming contradiction. In our public management courses here at SPEA, we stress the importance of transparency–and the reason for the First Amendment’s specific grant of freedom to the press/media. It stands to reason that journalists need to [...]
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Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on June 22nd, 2011
The title of this post is the title of the textbook I plan to use in the fall, in my class on Media and Public Affairs. Unfortunately, the message it conveys–traditional media is dying–gets truer every day. Yesterday, the Indianapolis Star announced that 60 employees were being let go. This is in addition to prior [...]
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Bad Monkey
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on October 24th, 2010
I’m writing this before the November 2d elections, knowing that it won’t see print until the election results are known. The timing won’t keep me from making a prediction: voters will reward sleazy tactics, outright liars and buffoons of all political persuasions. That’s because the election season that will (mercifully) be over when you read [...]
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Journalism’s Responsibility?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on December 9th, 2009
In a recent blog post at Political Animal, Steve Benen addressed the decision of the Washington Post to run an op-ed on climate change written (okay, probably ghost-written, since she’s given no hint that she’s familiar with the English language) by Sarah Palin. The problem isn’t just that the paper published another right-wing piece from [...]
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