"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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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...
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...