Kent Harrington (pictured top left) is a former senior CIA analyst who served as National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, chief of station, and CIA's 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 co-founder 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 media.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
- The Infectious Spread of the Lying Virus
- Donald Trump and the Press: Somewhere the Bolsheviks are Smiling
- "The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator," Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov wrote in 1901, "but also a collective organizer of the masses." Ulyanov, also known as Vladimir Lenin, couldn't have penned a better description of Donald Trump's media strategy today.
- News Media's Biggest Vice? Endlessly Predicting the Future
In 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, they're not terribly good at it.
- President Trump and Typhoid Mary. When Lies Become Epidemic
- Shuttering the Newseum: It's Time for Big Media to Step Up
- When Fantasies Replace Facts Its Time for a Myth Buster on the News
- Future of News Media: Advertisers, Agencies and Consumers Weigh-In
- When taking a pulse on the state of the news media, perhaps it's 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 itself.
- Platforms Galore: Does it Matter Where One Publishes?
- Playing Games With the Census. Why Business Should Pay Attention
- The Kremlin and the News. Why are Broadcast and Cable Ignoring Putin's 2020 Campaign?
- Surveillance is the Business Model of the Internet. What's Coming Next?
National 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 video-sharing app. The issue — the company's possible transfer of personal data to the Chinese government — should make TikTok's 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 yawn.
- It's Not Just Slicker Propaganda: China's Billion Dollar Bet on Remaking the News
- Chicago Tribune, Chris Matthews and Institutional Loyalty
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