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The Trumpification of the US media: why chasing news values distorts politics
Posted by, Stephen Cushion The politics of reactionary populist fear is hardly unique to the US. Outside the US, the prospect of Donald Trump being elected president is typically met with a mixture of...
View ArticleFox News: Out with the old – in with the old familiar.
The resignation yesterday of Roger Ailes, Chairman and Chief Executive of Fox News in the US, sent shock waves through an American media system currently struggling, like everyone else, to make sense...
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Another day, another tweet, another incident. This time Donald Trump, the prolific and seemingly indiscriminate tweeter who just happens to be leader of the free world has damaged diplomatic relations...
View ArticleHow should Britain’s broadcasters tackle Fake News?
This post is by Prof Richard Sambrook It was originally published by The Royal Television Society Trolls, bots, Russian hackers, fake news, disinformation and lies – 2016 was the year that news seemed...
View ArticleThe Decay of Truth?
It was Oscar Wilde who once wrote that ‘life imitates art far more than art imitates life’. It was part of a dialogic essay called ‘The Decay of Lying’ ; it was published in 1891, and he claimed that...
View ArticleDown the rabbithole… some passing thoughts on Russia, the Deep State and...
Earlier this week the US astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson posted the following tweet: 2 + 2 = 4 #1984 — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) February 21, 2017 … which at the time of writing had...
View ArticleWhy the fake news panic matters
Information is the currency of our world. Business, politics, social discourse, international relations and more rest on the assumption of shared, accurate information. But we learned in 2016 how that...
View ArticleDown the Rabbithole Part Two: Alice meets a White Knight, a Fancy Bear and...
Ex-Tory MP and NewsCorp journalist Louise Mensch’s Twitter feed is riveting. And yes, at times, bizarre – although we are, frankly, living in bizarre (‘unpresidented!’) times. It is easy to imagine...
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2020 Vision: Forecasts for the year ahead from Cardiff University School of...
Four small words; the future of journalism. What should we expect to see making a dent in our profession over the 12 months ahead? What does social media have in store for a likely devious US Election...
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