Tens of millions of Americans, most of them men, tune in to sports talk radio. Is sports talk a haven for old-school guy talk, including misogyny and gay-bashing? For the final episode in our series…
Two families, both making big investments of time and money to involve their kids in sports. But the investments they’re able to make are very different. In Part 5 of “Contested,” our series on sports,…
Tal Ben-Artzi didn’t worry about being an out bisexual athlete at Penn State. Maybe she would have if she’d known the school’s history. How much have times changed? In Part 4 of “Contested,” our series…
Two small towns, one in Idaho, the other in Upstate New York, try to decide whether to change the nickname of their high school sports teams: The Redskins. Photo: Emblem in the main foyer at…
More from suburban St. Louis, post-Ferguson, on the popular notion that sports unites communities. Can the camaraderie of a team sport make race and class status “disappear” for the kids involved or their parents? Scene…
Can a winning baseball team bring St. Louis together post-Ferguson? John Biewen investigates in the inaugural episode of Scene On Radio, a new podcast of audio stories from the Center for Documentary Studies…
New episode: As it turns 250, the American republic is in a precarious state, a danger to itself and others.
Can we blame the state of our news media for THIS?
With @catchatweetdown, @pastpunditry, @froomkin, @mtomasky
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This serves as a perfect setup for our episode that drops Wednesday -- The News ep 7
"increasingly extreme viewpoints on both sides". Right, one side is fascistic, kidnapping people & crushing democratic freedoms (including the press!). Other side wants universal healthcare & higher taxes on the wealthy. But the NYT is on it with characteristic even-handedness.
Thread on California billionaires’ tax
I have some tremendous news to share: we've just won a decisive victory against Mark Zuckerberg and the Silicon Valley billionaires 🧵
Our new episode ... goes in, if we say so ourselves.
What's the central structural problem with America's news media?
The 20th century fight over the nature of the media and whom it would serve.
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We discuss NYT, CNN, the Sunday shows — if they’re “conservatives” you agree with our thesis! And nobody mentioned bad behavior, it’s documentable patterns and ideological positioning. Our full ep on the theme:
@SceneOnRadio @PeterBeinart @catchatweetdown I’m conservative, and this had blind spots. <4% republicans in news? NBD, because corporations are censoring radical reporters. Your self analysis should mention that all your examples of bad behavior is from conservatives. Isn’t this a bit of a straw man?
