Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Friday, November 25, 2022

Thomas Zimmer on the Scourge of "Both Sides" Commentary and the "High Priests of White Dude (Increasingly Reactionary) Centrism"

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A pictorial commentary on bothsidesism at Merriam-Webster's " Looking at ‘Bothsidesing’ " In a posting today entitled " T...
Friday, November 18, 2022

On Media and Trump: "Trump and the Media Are One and the Same"; and on Not Taunting the Alligator

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White House photo by Benjamin Applebaum of Trump and press in Oval Office, 21 March 2017, at Wikimedia Commons In the wake of the announceme...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

More Post-Election Commentary: "If they win, I should get all the credit. If they lose, I should not be blamed at all"

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Photo of stack of newspapers by Daniel R. Blume, Wikimedia Commons Post-election commentary continues. Here are some pieces I've read th...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Robin Givhan: "The attack on Pelosi graphically highlights just how indecent this country has become"

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Nick Anderson's cartoon commentary on the Pelosi attack — and more Robin Givhan takes a look at one exceptionally disturbing aspect of...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

McCarrick Story Continues to Chug Along, While McCloskey Story Loses Steam: Why?

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Number of articles Religion News Service has posted featuring the McCarrick story: at least 20, by my count. Number of RNS articles featur...
Monday, November 5, 2018

"People Who Are Most Likely to Appear in These Kinds of Stories Are the Least Likely to Have a Say in How Those Stories Are Told": Lessons for Catholic Media Reporting on LGBTQ Community

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A diptych for you today — news commentary dancing two-by-two which, in my view deserves to be highlighted, and which illuminates, I thi...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

National Catholic Reporter Announces It Will Restrict Its Commenting Services, Due to "Dramatic Increase in Trolls and Disruptive Comments"

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Last week, I pointed you to some valuable (and worrisome) commentary about how trolls are trashing open discussion spaces online and...
Monday, October 5, 2015

If Catholic Leaders Are Permitted to Convince Us That Symbol Represents Substance, Who's to Blame? If We Choose to Believe That the Telenovela Is Real . . .

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You realize, don't you, that probing the uneasy interface between symbol and substance, in the case of authority figures, is a re...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Papal Visit Wrap-Up, Or Unwrapping Media Spin Along with Women, Abuse Survivors, and LGBT Catholics

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Not a wrap-up of the papal visit, but an attempt to unwrap the neatly wrapped package that has just been delivered to us vis the medi...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Ezra Klein on How New Online Media Technologies Shift U.S. Political Conversation: Implications for "Pope Messiahs" and Centrist Catholic Media Gatekeepers

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This is what I mean when I keep saying repeatedly that new media made possible by online technology, as well as the tools of social n...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

Chris Morley on Updating the Pope's Media Machine for the 21st Century

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And another valuable Sunday-morning resource — another report from Chris Morley, this one on the tipc of the pope's media machine...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Weekend News: John Shore on Pope Francis and Gay Catholics, Open Letter to New Chicago Archbishop, Reading Synod Tea Leaves, Betty Clermont on Abuse Tracker

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For the weekend, a selection of miscellaneous news stories about Catholic-themed issues including the treatment of gay Catholics by Ca...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Let's Talk: The Continuing Challenge of Blogging in the American Catholic Context

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People do want to talk, you know. Together: they want to talk together .
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

More News: Pope Francis and the Nuns, Clericalism and Abuse Crisis, Right-Wing Policies and Women's Health, Unbearable Whiteness of Liberal Media

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More news: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Pope Francis Continues in News: Jerry Slevin, Sarah Posner, New York Times, Colleen Baker

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As the new year goes on, I'm seeing more and more news coverage about  news coverage about Pope Francis. All of it fascinating ...
Monday, January 13, 2014

E.J. Dionne on Media's Ability to "Turn on a Dime": Critical Reflections about Media's Claim to Mediate Social Reality to Rest of Us

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This is the kind of thing I'd have written in my journal, before I began blogging--and as I read the day's news and news co...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

In the News: George Zimmerman, Obamacare, Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, and Moral Sickness of Cultures

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News commentary about disparate topics (though interconnected ones, to my way of thinking) that has caught my eye this week:
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Politics: Dueling Hymns in Congress, Paul Ryan and Contraception, Pat Buchanan on Shutdown, MSM and Centrist Myths, Anonymous and Maryville Rape Story, Malala's Meeting with Obama

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1. As Peter Montgomery notes , yesterday appears to have been dueling hymn day in the U.S. Congress :  House Republicans sang "A...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

And Another Quote: "The Whole Point of the Professional Journalistic Creed Is to Form a Closed Circle of Gatekeepers"

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Scott Tucker And yet another quote: Scott Tucker at Truthdig on (mainstream) journalism as a form of priestcraft for states whose sp...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Thomas Roberts and Melissa Harris-Perry: To Fix a Broken Social Contract, We Need an "I Am Other" Agenda

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In response to the George Zimmerman verdict , Thomas Roberts and Melissa Harris-Perry conclude that the American social contract is broke...