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Actually, No You're NOT A Nutrition Expert

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 04.12.2013 | Healthy Living
David Katz, M.D.

We have created a seething stew of opinion about everything to do with nutrition, including, presumably, stew. That leaves us with far too many cooks, many lacking credentials to be in the kitchen in the first place.

Media, Message, and Motive: Why 'Why' Matters

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 04.09.2013 | Healthy Living
David Katz, M.D.

These are the facts. The video is a public health offering, pure and simple. No one makes money from it. And it features several tweens and teens who are themselves beneficiaries of healthy living, who donated time and effort and talent to paying it forward.

Journalist Herd Mentality

Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 04.08.2013 | Media
Jeffrey Abelson

How is it that in the last few days I've seen ten articles from all the major newspapers, all of which scream that Obama's calling for cuts in Social Security and Medicare -- then go on to say nothing useful about Social Security, and absolutely nothing at all about Medicare?

Friday Talking Points -- What the Media Missed

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.05.2013 | Politics
Chris Weigant

We've got a lot to cover this week, so we're going to try to get through everything in a rather foreshortened format. At least, that's the goal.

Has Mainstream Media Forgotten How to Report?

Steven Greenhut | Posted 05.12.2013 | Media
Steven Greenhut

I downplay the "liberal bias" meme, but my recent experience on the receiving end of a series of supposed exposes has left me rethinking my tendency to cut fellow journalists some slack.

Half of Us Have Computers in Our Pockets, Though You'd Hardly Know it

Pamela Poole | Posted 04.06.2013 | Fifty
Pamela Poole

Smartphones haven't even been around for six years, but already they're changing the way people function. Some people, that is. About 50% of Americans have smartphones, but many haven't even begun to appreciate what they're capable of, or how much they're going to change our world.

Sandy Hook Shooting: How the Media Screwed Up the Reporting of This Tragedy

Stephen Robert Morse | Posted 02.18.2013 | Media
Stephen Robert Morse

In the immediate aftermath of the horrific Newtown shooting, both traditional and new media sources disseminated a significant amount of misinformation.

Ann Coulter Nears Her Own Tipping Point

Glenn Llopis | Posted 02.10.2013 | Latino Voices
Glenn Llopis

Republican pundit Ann Coulter's sweeping generalizations in her recent column about the Hispanic community in the United States shows the lack of leadership in the GOP.

Divided We Stand (But How Divided Are We Really?)

David Westin | Posted 01.10.2013 | Media
David Westin

The "party" in this case isn't blue or red. It's the media that, whatever its orientation -- right, left, or down the middle -- can agree on one thing: We're increasingly a country of people who want to choose up sides, go to our respective corners, and throw things at one another.

Artists and Activists Take to Social Media Airwaves to Counter Super PAC Ads

Rick Ayers | Posted 12.25.2012 | Media
Rick Ayers

If social media tell us anything, it is that we don't have to be passive to the Super-PACs well-funded campaign advertisements. It is always possible to get your own vision and point of view out there.

Movies and Politics: Truth in Fiction

John W. Whitehead | Posted 12.24.2012 | Entertainment
John W. Whitehead

By way of television, politics has become a form of entertainment, dominated by money and profit, imagery and spin, hype and personality. So maybe it's time to turn off the tube and pop in a DVD.

The Truly Frightening Power of the Right-Wing Mainstream Media

Nida Khan | Posted 12.09.2012 | Media
Nida Khan

The night before the coveted first presidential debate, a bit of "news" transpired. One network in particular, Fox News, led with the story on several of its broadcasts.

Media Literacy in the Digital Age

Jackie Jenkins-Scott | Posted 12.05.2012 | Home
Jackie Jenkins-Scott

Communication shapes our experience of reality. If we are not cognizant of the internalization of images, then how can we work to change its influence on our lives and the lives of our students, from the youngest to those in college?

CRAP

Paula Gordon | Posted 12.01.2012 | Politics
Paula Gordon

If we won't let our children lie or BS us and get away with it, surely Republicans should be held to the same standard. Cow dung has good uses, but not in political campaigns. Cut the CRAP.

Trust in Media Down: Bias? Or Paranoia?

Charles H. Green | Posted 11.25.2012 | Media
Charles H. Green

Trust in the media is down. The party line is that the fault lies with the media, that media needs to be and be seen as more trustworthy.

It's Arithmetic: The Romney Campaign Adds Up to Lies and Insults

Sophia A. McClennen | Posted 11.21.2012 | Politics
Sophia A. McClennen

To trope on Bill Clinton, "It's Arithmetic." Colbert and Stewart have shown us that the Romney campaign adds up to lies and insults. Now it's our turn to do the math and decide what this campaign really adds up to.

We Interrupt This Blog Post With a Copyright Alert

John Pavley | Posted 11.16.2012 | Technology
John Pavley

During the Hugo Awards ceremony science fiction fans are celebrated, remembered, and rewarded along with the authors. Could you imagine Hollywood celebrating its fans by name and in person, along side the stars at the Oscars? Maybe people would start tuning in again.

What Will Force the Media to Expose Romney & Ryan's Lies?

Zach Friend and Spencer Critchley | Posted 11.11.2012 | Politics
Zach Friend and Spencer Critchley

Ironically, Romney and Ryan will probably suffer for their lies, not because of the facts, but because of a story: the story of the first candidates for high office who not only didn't tell the truth, but didn't even pretend to care about it.

Truthiness Is Not a Joke: Lying and Loving It at the RNC

Sophia A. McClennen | Posted 11.02.2012 | Politics
Sophia A. McClennen

CBS News reported that most of the major claims made by Ryan about Obama's record were misleading and untrue. Ryan then kept up his pattern of truthiness after the RNC when he lied about his best time in a marathon, shaving off more than an hour from his finish time. Seriously?

In Defense of the Priorities USA "Understands" Ad: The President and Dems Are Missing a Golden Opportunity.

Peter Smirniotopoulos | Posted 10.10.2012 | Politics
Peter Smirniotopoulos

The Priorities USA "Understands" ad may be the perfect springboard for the right conversation. However, as long as the focus is on the feigned moral outrage from the Right, as aided and abetted by the cowering of the Left, this election will, in the end, be about the Cult of Personality.

What Does Washington Have Against Small Businesses?

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.08.2012 | Small Business
Lloyd Chapman

It drives me crazy to watch the parade of politicians on mainstream media talking about the economy, job creation and small businesses. It's almost unheard of for any of them to mention the fact that small businesses create the overwhelming majority of net new jobs.

Not Enough News in The Newsroom

Brian Rooney | Posted 08.25.2012 | TV
Brian Rooney

They make cruel but funny jokes about the latest dead celebrity. And they are not sentimental because they've heard and seen too much. Unlike in The Newsroom, the job they do is not accompanied by a gauzy sound track of emotional music. They want the truth.

Black Advocacy Groups Must Push Anti-HBCU Media Coverage to Top of Social Justice Agenda

Jarrett L. Carter | Posted 08.22.2012 | Black Voices
Jarrett L. Carter

It's time for black advocacy organizations with built-to-last influence in advancing the Black American agenda to include HBCUs at the top of their priorities, and to increase the call for an immediate end to unbalanced reporting on these institutions.

Yesterday: The Lowest Interest Rates in History

Alan Grayson | Posted 06.02.2012 | Politics
Alan Grayson

Yesterday, the 10-year Treasury note hit its lowest interest rate in history. For the third day in a row. Why is this happening? Will the trend continue? What does it mean for the middle class?

Violence and Greeting Cards

Robert Koehler | Posted 07.17.2012 | Politics
Robert Koehler

The history of violence that is coming to Chicago belongs entirely to NATO. What a paradox. We mask unutterable brutality and an agenda of endless violence and global domination in the language of Hallmark greeting cards and turn sound cannons on the ensuing cries of outrage.