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    • The Nixon Memo 

      Kalb, Marvin (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1992-07)
      The following paper by Marvin Kalb, Director of the Shorenstein Barone Center and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, was first presented as the keynote address at the ...

    • No Seat at the Table: The Black-White Appearance Gap in the Election 2000 Story 

      Mathis, Deborah (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2001)
      Ordinarily on the day after a presidential election, network newscasts and political talk shows are a feast of reviews and retrospectives about the newly lapsed campaign --what went wrong for the losing candidate; what ...

    • Notes for the Next Epidemic, Part One: Lessons from News Coverage of AIDS 

      Cook, Timothy E. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1991-10)
      It is just this latter type of criticism of press practices that is explicitly described, and so well embodied, in this analysis of AIDS coverage prepared by Timothy Cook, Associate Professor of Political Science at Williams ...

    • Orwell Meets Nixon: When and Why ‘The Press’ Became ‘The Media’ 

      Nolan, Martin F. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2005)
      A paper by Martin F. Nolan, fall 2004 fellow, explores President Nixon’s antagonistic relationship with the press. He argues that Nixon sought to disarm his critics by changing “the press,” a Constitutionally protected ...

    • Our President/Their Scandal: The Role of the British Press in Keeping the Clinton Scandals Alive 

      Goldfarb, Michael (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)
      The spring of 1994 was an interesting time for news in Washington. The Clinton administration’s flagship domestic policy, health care industry reform, was being debated; intervening in Haiti to restore the democratically ...

    • Ownership of Newspapers: The View from Positivist Social Science 

      Baker, C. Edwin (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1994-09)
      A.J. Liebling's often quoted comment, "freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one," assumes that ownership matters. Certainly, the importance of ownership is assumed by most media critics who decry the ...

    • Paint-By-Numbers Journalism: How Reader Surveys and Focus Groups Subvert a Democratic Press 

      Carper, Alison (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1995-04)
      Journalism in America has always had two warring halves. On the one side, it is a public service, armed with staunch principles about the people's right to know. On the other, it is a business, invigorated by hearty profits ...

    • Partners of Necessity: The Case for Collaboration in Local Investigative Reporting 

      Rowe, Sandy (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2011-06)
      Anyone who thinks there’s an easy rescue in sight for rebuilding local investigative reporting capacity is wrong. Newspapers, traditionally the source of most investigative coverage in communities, will not be able to ...

    • The Perpetuation of Prejudice in Reporting on Gays and Lesbians: Time and Newsweek: The First Fifty Years 

      Bennett, Lisa (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1998-09)
      This study reveals that the trend in reporting on gays and lesbians during the past fifty years has been going in the right direction, as the presence of prejudicial—or unsupported and unbalanced—allegations have steadily ...

    • The Philosopher King and the Creation of NPR. 

      Oney, Steve (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2014)
      Hulking and unkempt, typically clad in denim and shit-kickers, Jeff Kamen was referred to around the offices of National Public Radio as El Lobo. He came from the world of big-market rock ‘n roll news. During the late ...

    • Podium Wars: President Hamid Karzai, the Foreign Press, and the Afghan War 

      Partlow, Joshua (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2013-01)
      On Oct. 4, 2012, President Hamid Karzai stood behind a podium and addressed reporters inside the presidential palace in Kabul. In his televised remarks, Karzai recounted a video-conference he had held recently with President ...

    • Political Leadership in a Divided Electorate: Assessing Character Issues in the 2000 Presidential Campaign 

      Renshon, Stanley (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2001)
      In this paper, using publicly accessible data, I examine these questions in the context of the 2000 presidential campaign. I first ask “does character still matter?” and examine a range of data which suggests that it does. ...

    • The Politics of Character and the Character of Journalism 

      Lichtenberg, Judith (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1989-10)
      Was George Bush a wimp! Did Bob Dole have a dark side! Was Gary Hart a man of integrity! Whatever its other distinguishing marks, the presidential campaign of 1988 stands out as a contest in which these kinds of questions ...

    • Post-Communist Eastern Europe: The Difficult Birth of a Free Press 

      Margueritte, Bernard J. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1995-08)
      Margueritte, surveying the scene across Eastern Europe, displays the disappointment and apprehension that many share who've looked closely. As he says, "There are no more taboos anymore .. but we are still far away from ...

    • The Power of TV News: An Insider’s Perspective on the Launch of BBC Persian TV in the Year of the Iranian Uprising 

      Williams, Stephen (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2010-02)
      “Well, of course you’re from MI6. You’re a spy.” … “Pass the pomegranate juice, please.” The accusation was made to the director of the BBC’s World Service, Nigel Chapman. He and I and the BBC’s senior Persian analyst, ...

    • Pragmatic News Objectivity: Objectivity With a Human Face 

      Ward, Stephen (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1999-05)
      Ward has taken an important step in presenting his own description of a viable interpretation of news “objectivity.” Hopefully those self-same standards can expand subsequent conversation about what more is needed to help ...

    • Prepared for War, Ready for Peace?: Paramilitaries, Politics, and the Press in Northern Ireland 

      Cooke, Tim (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1998-08)
      This paper by Tim Cooke, an experienced broadcaster and senior editor who has worked for BBC Northern Ireland throughout the troubles, provides important insights which help us to understand how the news media covers periods ...

    • Press Coverage of Belarus, A Newly Independent Country in Transition 

      Ivanova, Katsiaryna (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)
      1991 the heads of founder states of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, that is Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine met at a picturesque natural reserve Belarus is proud of, called Belovezhskaya Pushcha, to ...

    • Press, Polls, and the 1988 Campaign: An Insider's Critique 

      Duncan, Dayton (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1989-08)
      On October 12, 1988, four weeks before the presidential election, Peter Jennings, the anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight," looked solemnly into the studio camera-and through it to millions of living rooms across the ...

    • Pressing Concerns: Hong Kong’s Media in an Era of Transition 

      Hutcheon, Stephen J. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1998-09)
      Despite the influx of outside owners of the media, within Hong Kong there are some strong independent media owners who uphold freedom of expression. Hutcheon focuses on Jimmy Law Chee-ying, the publisher of the Chinese ...