Culture and Society: Media

“When people watch the news, they don’t intentionally filter biases out, or feel they have to argue against the expression of the newscaster,” Mullen explains. The Tipping Point

We filmed the shows after school, then broadcast them that night—prime time—on local cable. Stargirl

Magazines and blogs are typically free to reject articles—and, for that matter, to delete offensive reader comments—without being accused of censorship. The New Yorker

No sooner had he settled in front of the TV than a Mother Paula’s commercial came on, promoting the weekend special: $6.95 for all the pancakes you could eat, plus free sausage and coffee. Hoot

More than anything, news media need to be very careful about lending too much credibility to these pseudo-experts. New York Times

One day he might help a group of environmentalists expose a public health hazard. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Journalists often receive complaints about their work on Twitter as readers complain about typos, differences of opinion and factual errors. Salon

The radio informed us the two American boxers would be paid five million American dollars each, from our treasury, for coming here. The Poisonwood Bible

What you share on the internet will live in public space forever. Watch Us Rise

New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Harrison Salisbury came to my city to investigate the stories of racial violence; he wanted to find out if the rumors were really true. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement

The issue turned out to be the most successful ever in terms of newsstand sales. The Milagro Beanfield War

“I’m teaching a unit on journalism,” said Mr. Larson, “and some of the kids in the class have started a newspaper—sort of as a project. It’s good writing, don’t you think?” The Landry News

When you turn on mainstream TV or open a mainstream newspaper, do you expect to find mostly people of another race? Americanah

Kennedy turned to the most powerful mass medium of his day: radio. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

An opinion column in the Boston Daily Globe said that the Welles broadcast revealed a fact many Americans didn’t understand: Radio has the potential “for spreading alarm to the unthinking or ill-informed.” Spooked!

When he learned that the press was reporting on the crash without giving the crewmen’s names, Phil ran out of a meeting to get word to his family that he hadn’t been on the plane. Unbroken

Please don’t put it in the papers either, as I am concerned for my privacy. In the Time of the Butterflies

The first of the Coates shows was televised locally after it had been given heavy publicity over the weekend by the newspapers. Black Like Me

Next week the newspaper reported the man’s capture and described the nature of his punishment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel

One frightened person didn’t check other stations to verify the news because, she explained, the announcers said CBS “was the only one not destroyed.” Spooked!