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It flew by my facebook feed this morning so I figured I should post it here. Here's background on the photo op . He was arguing against ...

Lincoln's Media Strategy . - There's nothing new about president's manipulating how the press covers them. The Bumpkinificati...

From the Washington Pos t, another story pointing out the difficulties newspapers face in the digital age: Earlier this year, Rupert Murdo...

Here's the back story of this iconic image from the Vietnam War. It won the photographer a Pulitzer Prize, ruined the career of the gen...

Brendan Nyhan takes campaign reporters to task for giving too much - or any - attention to superficial news events like the etch a sketch co...

The full range of social media will apparently be used in the campaigns of Romney and Obama, as well as in other races. This is new territor...

Plenty. In this TNR piece, the author shows how a Tweet from legal analysts Jeffery Toobin - that the individual mandate was doomed based o...

A not surprising commentary from the NYT .

Here's an interesting read - it touches on points made in 2301 when we discussed the consequences of new media technology, in this case...

Here's the letter sent to the Chief Justice. The NYT agrees they should .

Director John Huston produced a 1946 film about returning WW2 veterans with psychological trauma. The Defense Department suppressed it and ...

Supreme Court Approval Rating Dips to 46%     All institutions seem to be taking hits, now the Supreme Court is no different - but its opini...

The recent phone hacking scandal seems to have open the flood gates and accusations about Murdoch and his businesses are piling on. People w...

I'm trying to find the best way to frame a few recent stories regarding the media and its interrelation with other institutions. One i...

From RollCall, a great explanation why moderate Republicans are falling in line against compromise on the debt ceiling: The conservative ...

This is huge news . Republicans have been pushing for this change for years: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski...

Salon wonders if the recent rise of support for unlikely presidential candidate Herman Cain is due to recent changes in the media environme...

Hasidic Paper Removes Hillary Clinton From Osama Picture .

A noted conservative Texas interest group launches an ad campaign promoting the proposed budget cuts.

This is late news, but it seems to mark a change in how the Federal Reserve faces the public. Commentary . Its been pointed out that the...