"The use of slanted terminology is one of the media’s oldest tricks. One recent and particularly glaring example is the dogged use of Teddy...
Framing Through Terminology in Media
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Recurrent Use of Discredited Attacks in Media Coverage
"One of the most vicious tactics used by the media on public figures they dislike (and these are, of course, mostly conservatives) is to dust off...
Power and Accountability of the Media Elite
"… the issue is an important one, involving the distribution, use, and abuse of power in the American society, and it is not going to go away … In...
Evidence and Motives for Media Bias Against Conservatives
"To be sure, it can be argued that the media’s notorious dislike of Nixon is in some measure personal as well as ideological. Nixon, after all, has...
Invisible Power Brokers in Broadcast News
"It is unfortunate that most people’s experience of television news is confined to this small but highly visible group of on-camera performers,...
Ideological Homogeneity Among Media Elites
"There might be something to be said for protecting the political clout exercised by today’s media elite if those wielding it constituted even an...
Editorial Judgment and Unavoidable Value Choices
"It is not … a question of slanting the news. Almost every story worth reporting requires the reporter to adopt some ‘theory’ of its thrust that...
Media as Partisan Actors
"… in recent decades the principal media in the United States, responding to liberal intellectual trends once dominant but now much less so, have...
Evolution and Amplification of Media Techniques
"[In the 1960s], journalistic practices underwent sharp modification in the direction of more aggressive, conclusion-oriented reportage. And,...
Limitations and Ideals of Journalistic Objectivity
"It is not … a matter of achieving, or perhaps even pursuing, some ideal of absolute objectivity. All that can be asked or expected is a reasonable...