Media

Why Uri Blau's Indictment Should Worry Every Journalist in Israel

Ruth Eglash | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Press Freedom, Israel, Media, Uri Blau, Journalism, Uri Blau Indicted, Uri Blau Arrested, Uri Blau Indictment, Media News
Ruth Eglash

Until Wednesday, I always believed that Israeli journalists had it pretty easy compared colleagues in countries across Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere in the Middle East. In light of Uri Blau's indictment, it is now possible that this comfortable reality could change.

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Fox News Doesn't Care About Your Outrage

Chez Pazienza | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Fox News, Media, Cable News, Fox and Friends, Roger Ailes, Fox News Obama Video, Media Criticism, Media News
Chez Pazienza

Not only does Fox News not fret over its many detractors, it generally welcomes the outrage as an opportunity to once again let its pit-bullish media relations department off the chain to maul the crap out of the poor sap with the bad sense to hassle its master.

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Secrets of a May 'Nielsen Family'

Bob Sellers | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Television, TV Ratings, Television Ratings, Nielsen Ratings, Nielsen, Cable News Ratings, Cable News, Media, Sweeps, Media News
Bob Sellers

Based on my experience, keeping a Nielsel diary is a well-meaning but imperfect measuring system that suggests advertisers may be rolling the dice when they pay for ads designed to reach a particular audience.

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Who Killed Brad Will?

Erin Siegal | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Teacher's Strike, Riots, Press Freedom, Murder Investigations, Ulysses Ruiz, Mexico, Oaxaca, Protests, Brad Will, Media, Pri, Journalism, Appo, World News
Erin Siegal

Osorio Ortega is not the first man accused of murdering Brad Will. In 2008, Mexican authorities fingered baker Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno as Will's killer.

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An Unnerving Reality: We're Deporting Adoptees

Adam Pertman | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Politics, India, Thailand, Children, Immigration, Arizona, Media, Families, Policy, Korea, Utah, Adoption, Crime News
Adam Pertman

People who break the law should unequivocally pay an appropriate price for their offenses. But I think it can fairly be argued that the reason some are being ejected from the only country they've ever known is not because of the crime they've committed -- but because they were adopted.

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The One Where Robb Gets Some: A Geek Girl Watches Game of Thrones

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Hbo, Entertainment, Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, Books, Media, Fantasy, Game of Thrones Recap, TV News
Ilana Teitelbaum

While a few other things did happen, it wasn't exactly the most action-packed of episodes. This episode was clearly the calm before the siege.

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Media, Poverty and a Lack of Concern

Jeffrey P. Colin | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Violence, Egypt, Tunisia, Media, Romney, Candidates, Gangs, Obama, Election, Unrest, Poor, Poverty, Economy, Greece, Media News
Jeffrey P. Colin

As far back as 2008, members of the progressive advocacy community who focus on poverty were decrying a lack of coverage of rising poverty levels by the media. Since that point, the problem has gotten much worse.

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The Media's Limitations and Manipulations

Ziad El-Hady | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Islamophobia, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, International Politics, Media Manipulation, Corporations, Media, News Corporation, Media Bias, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Media News
Ziad El-Hady

All social, political and economic policies and debates are communicated through our media. Therefore, the breadth of our democratic experience is largely defined by the structure of the media and its content.

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Speaking Truth to Power: Sean Penn

Lee Bycel | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Social Change, Media, Humanitarian, Celebrity News
Lee Bycel

My hope is that we spend less time criticizing the prophets, the one who stands in the arena; but rather we let our own prophetic voices motivate us to do a bit more, each and every day.

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Building a Nation Where Everybody Is Somebody

Stuart Muszynski | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Politics, Respect, Media, Shared Values, Bullying, Disrespect, Hollywood, Culture, Impact News
Stuart Muszynski

Anyone in the media, in politics or behind closed doors who refuses to respect the dignity of another ought to be called out as a bully, a narcissist, a hate-inciter or all of the above. Let's not repeat the mistake we made with Senator Joe McCarthy by calling people like this "leaders."

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A Student Perspective: Generational Differences in News Use

Lindsay Hoffman | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Social Media, Social News, News Consumption Differences, News Consumption, New Media, Media, Reading-News, News, Getting the News, College News
Lindsay Hoffman

The Pew Research Center has identified three types of media users: Traditionalists, Integrators, and Net-Newsers. I am in my 20's and am a Net-Newser. My mom, on the other hand, is a Traditionalist.

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Ravi, Romney And Anti-Gay Bullying: What A Difference 50 Years Makes

Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Gay Voices, Crime, Gay Voices News, Politics, Media, Tyler Clementi Suicide, Tyler Clementi Dharun Ravi, Bullying, Anti-Bullying, Gay Voices News
Michelangelo Signorile

The Dharun Ravi verdict and sentencing represents a dramatic shift in society's view of anti-gay bullying and of bias crimes against LGBT people. Just compare what Ravi did to Tyler Clementi to what Mitt Romney reportedly did to a nonconforming student at his prep school in 1965.

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Is Your Ex Letting The Kids Watch Too Much TV? How To Deal

Common Sense Media | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Managing Media, Ex-Wife, Media, Divorce, Summer, Joint Custody, Ex-Husband, Apps for Kids, Parenting Tips, Kid-Safe Movies, Common Sense Media, Parenting After Divorce, Kid-Safe Apps, Divorced Parents, Ipad, Divorce News
Common Sense Media

"Is it that bad to let your kids watch Aliens?" My ex-husband posed this question to me -- and he was dead serious. Did I mention that our kids are 6 and 8?

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Balancing the Bad News With a Hit of Personal Truth

Dr. Cheryl Pappas | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Depression, News Media, Media, Negative Media, Media News
Dr. Cheryl Pappas

I've been wondering lately what it would be like to have just arrived on earth from another planet and turn on CNN for the first time. What would these intergalactic travelers conclude about life on earth?

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Mitt Romney Is Playing the Mainstream Media Like a Fiddle -- and the Problem Is That They Are Actually Dancing to the Music

Dee Evans | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, 2012 Presidential Election, Media, President Obama, Romney Campaign, Mitt Romney Campaign, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney Interview, Obama Press, Media Critique, Romney 2012, Media News
Dee Evans

To the media I ask this question: Name one presidential candidate in recent history who had not sat down for any Sunday talk shows or non-Fox related cable news shows less than six months out from a presidential election? Name me one!

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Warren Buffett and the Future of Journalism

Jeremy Harris Lipschultz | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Curriculum, Buffett, Journalism, Education, Media, Newspapers, Omaha, Social Media, New Media, Warren Buffett, Future of Journalism, Education News
Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

The Berkshire Hathaway offer to buy the Media General newspaper chain should offer the industry a shot of long-term optimism. Buffett expects a profitable future for newspapers during the next couple of decades.

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How I Stopped Being a Panicky Perfectionist: The Freedom of an Eco-mind

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Transparency, Oxford University Press, Ecology, Perfectionism, Liberation, Perfectionist, Media Transparency, Media, Culture News
Frances Moore Lappe

What's the cure for my perfectionist affliction? It's to rethink what it means to be a public intellectual. I am actually a public learner, a co-creator of iterative knowledge, not a deliverer of once-and-for-all facts.

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Black-on-White Crime and the Reasons for a Media Double-Standard

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Msnbc, Virginia, Rush Limbaugh, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Trayvon Martin, Racism, Media, Cable News, Race, Bill O'Reilly, Southern Strategy, Fox News Channel, Trayvon Martin Shooting, Norfolk, Media News
Bob Cesca

Yes, there's a double-standard. And until there's full equality and the long slow process of racial healing is completed, the double-standard has to remain.

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Cell Phones, Teenagers and Anxious Attachment

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Drug Addiction, Panic Attacks, Transitional Objects, Flirting, Sex Addiction, Smartphones, Tweens, Psychology, Media, Parenting, Self-Soothing, Facebook, Texting, Stress, Friendships, Education, College, High School, Cell Phones, Teachers, Anxiety, Parents News
Barbara Greenberg

We are raising a cohort of teens whose cell phones have replaced their favorite blankets or stuffed animals.

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Yahoo's Media Chief Charts a Course

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Ross Levinsohn, Fox Interactive, Yahoo, magnify.net, Media, Scott Thompson Yahoo, Yahoo CEO, Technology News
Steve Rosenbaum

I've been a fan of Yahoo since the beginning of time (or at least since Web history began). I've always thought of it as being a media company. Today, Yahoo is being led by the first CEO with real media chops in a very long time.

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Fox News Does Not Make You Dumb: Researchers Respond to Critics

Peter J. Woolley | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Msnbc, Peter J Woolley, Jon Stewart, Egypt Public Opinion, Npr, Fox News, Media Criticism, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Media, Dan Cassino, News Aggregator, Egypt Protests 2011, Public Opinion Polling, Publicmind, Pollster Analysis, Media News
Peter J. Woolley

NPR and Jon Stewart's Daily Show came out on top as the most informative, making the schadenfreude all the more delicious for Fox-haters, and the twisting of the liberal knife-in-the-back all the more painful for Fox fans. But how did it come to that?

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What The Buddha Might Say To President Obama

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Interconnectedness, Politics, Kindness, Patience, Gay Marriage, Buddha, Compassion, Media, Buddha Obama, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

To find unity, we have to go beyond those differences; we have to surrender our own needs for the benefit of all. In the process, our enemies can teach us great patience and even compassion!

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The Wall Street Journal's Convoluted Whitewash of Jamie Dimon

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, London Metal Exchange, Wall Street, Ina Drew, Media, Casino, Financial Crisis, Jamie Dimon, Wall Street Journal, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Today, one of the most convoluted, opaque editorials that the Wall Street Journal has been able to muster opened with the following hosanna to Jamie Dimon, and slap on the wrist to those in government and elsewhere who now feel that Dimon's aggressive prop trading policies have finally come home to roost.

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Mitt Romney's Teen Years: A Time Of Homosexual Panic In America

Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Gay History, Mitt Romney 2012, Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Romney Prep School, Anti-Gay Bullying, Mitt Romney Prep School, Mitt Romney Bully, Mitt Romney Prep School Bully, Mitt Romney, Media, Politics, Gay Voices News
Michelangelo Signorile

Those years, the mid-'60s, were in fact a critical time for the gay-rights movement: It was going to either burst forth or be suppressed by the kind of attitudes that empowered high-school boys of the time to hold down a kid perceived as gay and forcibly cut his hair.

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Is the Time Magazine Breastfeeding Cover Over the Line in Terms of Good Taste?

Quora | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Commercial Media, Time Magazine, Parenting Tips, Breastfeeding, Mother, Time Magazine Breastfeeding Cover, Time Magazine Controversial Cover, Motherhood, Media, Parenting, Good Taste, Parenting Advice, Time Magazine Cover, Parents, Parents News
Quora

This question originally appeared on Quora. By Shannon Turlington, Mother This photo is designed to be shocking and (pardon the pun) titillating. ...

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