Are News Media Serving the National Interest or Donald Trump?

Kent Harrington pictured top leftamp160 is a former senior CIA analyst who served as National Intelligence Officer for East Asia chief of station and CIA39s Director of Public Affairs Kent writes the weekly In the National Interest column at MediaVillage Erich Prince pictured top right writes the News on the Record column for MediaVillage is a cofounder at Merion West an online magazine launched in 2016 to provide centrist political commentary and present views across the political spectrum He studied political science at Yale graduating in 2017 bringing Gen Z context to coverage of news and mediaTOPICS TO BE COVEREDThe Infectious Spread of the Lying VirusDonald Trump and the Press Somewhere the Bolsheviks are SmilingquotThe press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitatorquot Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov wrote in 1901 quotbut also a collective organizer of the massesquot Ulyanov also known as Vladimir Lenin couldn39t have penned a better description of Donald Trump39s media strategy todayNews Media39s Biggest Vice Endlessly Predicting the FutureIn theory the news media would be excused for failing to predict such a potentially significant event They are after all supposed to be journalists rather than soothsayers However from even a brief look at news coverage it would appear that its focus is more concerned with being the latter An inordinate amount of news coverage today consists of commentators seeking to predict the future But the fact of the matter is they39re not terribly good at itPresident Trump and Typhoid Mary When Lies Become EpidemicShuttering the Newseum It39s Time for Big Media to Step UpWhen Fantasies Replace Facts Its Time for a Myth Buster on the NewsFuture of News Media Advertisers Agencies and Consumers WeighInWhen taking a pulse on the state of the news media perhaps it39s better to look to data from advertisers agencies and consumers then to focus unduly on a few of the loudest pundits and press from within the news space itselfPlatforms Galore Does it Matter Where One PublishesPlaying Games With the Census Why Business Should Pay AttentionThe Kremlin and the News Why are Broadcast and Cable Ignoring Putin39s 2020 CampaignSurveillance is the Business Model of the Internet What39s Coming NextNational security made strange bedfellows when Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer and his Republican colleague Senator Tom Cotton wrote to acting national intelligence director Joseph Maguire Their letter raised national security concerns about TikTok the widely popular videosharing app The issue amp8212 the company39s possible transfer of personal data to the Chinese government amp8212 should make TikTok39s American fans sit up and take note For teens young adults and their parents who use the app however odds are if they even noticed the news provoked a yawnIt39s Not Just Slicker Propaganda China39s Billion Dollar Bet on Remaking the NewsChicago Tribune Chris Matthews and Institutional LoyaltyTHE FUTURE OF NEWS AND NEWS MEDIAJACK MYERS LEADERSHIP CONVERSATIONSTHURSDAY APRIL 30 1PM ET Register Now

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