News Media – Excerpted

“…journalism, as a field, is as addled as an addict, gaunt, wasted, and twitchy, its pockets as empty as its nights are sleepless”

3 February 2019 Drew KaplanInternet

In the past half century, and especially in the past two decades, journalism itself—the way news is covered, reported, written, and edited—has changed, including in ways that have made possible the rise of fake news,[…]

“…the story of the people vs. Haaretz is not a story of a country whose public is no longer willing to tolerate debate”

4 June 20172 June 2017 Drew KaplanIsrael

Four factors have converged to make Haaretz more annoying to Israelis today than ever before. First, the country is less receptive to a left-wing agenda as most of its citizens tilt rightward. Second, the country[…]

“This New York-iest of politicians, now an idiosyncratic, write-your-own-rules president, has stumbled into the most conventional of Washington traps…”

10 March 20176 March 2017 Drew KaplanNews Media

The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, has taken to slapping journalists who write unflattering stories with an epithet he sees as the epitome of low-road, New York Post-style gossip: “Page Six reporter.” Whether the[…]

“Relations between the president and the media are going to be bad”

15 February 201713 February 2017 Drew KaplanNews Media

Relations between the president and the media are going to be bad. The role of the press in covering power is adversarial, and it should be adversarial. My working rule is: The more power, the[…]

“The echo chamber had morphed into a full-blown alternate reality silo of conspiracy theories, fake news and propaganda”

2 February 201730 January 2017 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

For many listeners, nothing was worse than Hillary Clinton. Two decades of vilification had taken their toll: Listeners whom I knew to be decent, thoughtful individuals began forwarding stories with conspiracy theories about President Obama[…]

“One staple of every radio talk show was, of course, the bias of the mainstream media”

26 January 201725 January 2017 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

One staple of every radio talk show was, of course, the bias of the mainstream media. This was, indeed, a target-rich environment. But as we learned this year, we had succeeded in persuading our audiences[…]

“…conservatives with big microphones taught their listeners not to believe what is reported in the mainstream media…”

4 December 2016 Drew KaplanJournalism

…while conservatives with big microphones taught their listeners not to believe what is reported in the mainstream media (and especially the elite press in New York and Washington) they themselves still relied on those sources[…]

“Conflicts gain sustained American attention only when they provide a compelling story line that appeals to both the public and political actors…”

9 October 20165 October 2016 Drew KaplanAmerica

The United States is the world’s sole remaining superpower, but Americans often seem so inward-looking as to be almost provincial. Foreigners often express wonder that American television news, for instance, spends fewer minutes covering the[…]

“Trump flouts the epistemological basis of contemporary political discourse…”

25 August 201623 August 2016 Drew KaplanNews Media

The strange alliance that has emerged between even Trump-supporting Republican elites and a critical press corps has been nurtured by Trump’s bizarre conspiracy theories and his baldfaced lies, which offend and unnerve both sides. “The[…]

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Category: News Media

“…journalism, as a field, is as addled as an addict, gaunt, wasted, and twitchy, its pockets as empty as its nights are sleepless”

“…the story of the people vs. Haaretz is not a story of a country whose public is no longer willing to tolerate debate”

“This New York-iest of politicians, now an idiosyncratic, write-your-own-rules president, has stumbled into the most conventional of Washington traps…”

“Relations between the president and the media are going to be bad”

“The echo chamber had morphed into a full-blown alternate reality silo of conspiracy theories, fake news and propaganda”

“One staple of every radio talk show was, of course, the bias of the mainstream media”

“…conservatives with big microphones taught their listeners not to believe what is reported in the mainstream media…”

“Conflicts gain sustained American attention only when they provide a compelling story line that appeals to both the public and political actors…”

“Trump flouts the epistemological basis of contemporary political discourse…”