Media

These reactionary and authoritarian actions are indicative of a post-truth society, in which beliefs and feelings too often “trump” facts, evidence, and reason. Many Americans seem locked into what historian Richard Hofstadter referred to as the “paranoid style in American politics."

“When I read it and I compare it to others, it has more migration; it has more about mental health. It has also more climate from a different angle somehow. More hopeful coverage without cynicism,” Allenbach said. Their competitors, she said, are focused on a professional audience of policy wonks who read the news for their work.

They found that, as you might expect, journalists across all three countries had perceptions of public opinion across the issues that correlated with their own opinions on the issues. (It’s possible, of course, that the influence went the other way, and journalists were calibrating their own opinions to the perceived opinion climate.

If Trump is going to start barring reporters over it, maintaining the old name is the only reasonable choice. Before, the main risk of using “Gulf of America” was appearing to endorse a xenophobic gesture. Now, it looks like preemptive surrender to an unconstitutional threat.

As media is increasingly released only digitally, we risk the possibility of losing content forever should a company decide it’s not worth keeping on its server. While, the relative failure of TV and film to carve out the same physical niche as games and music bodes poorly, the retro revival signifies hope.

The papers reserved outrage and apathy for Israeli casualties. Israeli victims were “slaughtered” and “massacred” by Hamas, and their deaths were “horrific.” But Palestinian victims were reported without emotion, often in the language of abstract numbers, through body counts. In addition, Palestinians were rarely “killed” and certainly never “murdered.”