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Questions Worth Asking – Journalism Edition
How does local television news change when Sinclair Broadcast Group buys a station? As shared by Prof. Jay Rosen, a paper being published Gregory J. Martin and Joshua McCrain in American Political...
View ArticleThinking about 40+ years of Star Wars
The new Star Wars trailer dropped online today, and my social media have been blowing up with a wide range of friends and acquaintances squeeing loudly about it (and a few grumbling). Some have been...
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Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post: Five Years Later
This week I’m at the Western Social Science Association annual conference. I’m giving a presentation looking at what has happened to Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post since the Amazon billionaire...
View ArticleLegacy News Vs. Google – Is the battle as clear as it seems?
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about the interaction/exploitation/mismanagement among legacy media and the social media companies. Here are a couple ofl articles/threads that do a good job of...
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Why local news matters: Down in the flood edition
I’ve written on a variety of occasions how much local news matters – news from a local newspaper, television station, radio station; the importance of broadcasters having a local physical presence...
View ArticleViacom and CBS, following years of drama, finally to reunite
Dearest mother —We are in day 278 of CBS/Viacom merger talks. Our food supplies are thin, sickness has taken hold and the men have grown weary. Yet, I look upon tomorrow with renewed hope that this...
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Biggest bias in the media? Making Money! (China Edition)
I know, I know, the big news lately that everyone’s been paying attention to is the presidential impeachment investigation here in the US. But there actually is a lot of other news going on, including...
View ArticleMedia Twitter: TikTok, ViacomCBS, Libel, and Marie Colvin
Just a quick round up of what’s been of interest to me on Twitter this week. On Tuesday, a German publication proved TikTok was suppressing videos by queer, disabled, and fat creators. On Wednesday,...
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Bob Iger, who grew Disney into world’s most powerful entertainment company,...
Disney has immensely transformed over the last 20 years. In the late twentieth century, the company was best known for children’s programming, theme parks, and cruise ships as well as owning the ABC...
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Guest Blog Post: Disney+ The Future of Content Ownership?
Editor’s Note: A little over a year ago, I asked Dr. Amber L. Hutchins, Associate Professor of Communication at Kennesaw State University, if she would be willing to write something for my blog about...
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