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SOURCE: Hyperallergic
3/1/2021
An Invaluable Black Public Broadcasting Archive Is Now Accessible Online
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting is a repository of interviews and broadcast content dealing with the spectrum of African American history and political activism.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/19/2021
Restoring the Fairness Doctrine Can't Prevent Another Rush Limbaugh
by Heather Hendershot
"The repeal of the Fairness Doctrine alone did not create Limbaugh or the presidency of Donald Trump. Catering to market demands for shock and awe programming did, and that is why neither Limbaugh’s death nor a return to this network-era regulation will solve the problem."
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SOURCE: The Week
2/18/2021
Rush Limbaugh Taught Republicans To Rage
by Neil J. Young
Even from the perspective of today's degraded political culture that he helped bring about, Limbaugh's cruelty remains shocking.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/22/2021
The Legacy of Rush Limbaugh (Podcast)
The Times Podcast "The Daily" looks at the career and legacy of the controversial radio host.
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SOURCE: Radical History Review
2/19/2021
His Ignominy Is His Triumph: a Counter-Obituary of Rush Limbaugh
by A.J. Bauer
"You’d be hard pressed to find a better popularizer of the concept of counter-hegemonic struggle (“culture war” in the vernacular), albeit on the right, or a more “organic intellectual” of the U.S. white upper middle class."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/18/2021
We Wouldn’t Have Had President Trump Without Rush Limbaugh
by Max Boot
Rush Limbaugh stripped conservative politics of principle, policy, and argument, broadcasting a show based on "assertion, mockery, and resentment." Donald Trump's presidency has proven that this was enough.
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2/17/2021
Rush Limbaugh Dead at 70, Influenced Combative Conservatism Over the Airwaves
by HNN Staff
The talk radio host energized conservatives and disgusted others with racist, misogynistic, gay-bashing rhetoric, building a lucrative media empire and a culture of politicized resentment.
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SOURCE: Democracy
2/17/2021
Limbaugh Was Partly Scalia and Bork’s Fault
by Michael Tomasky
"The admittedly and lamentably glorious career of the most prominent racist, sexist, poisonous radio host of our time probably never would have happened if it weren’t for a policy change: the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, under Ronald Reagan."
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/17/2021
Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio’s Conservative Provocateur, Dies at 70
The conservative talk radio host and de facto head of the Republican Party died on February 17 after a long career of airing right-wing grievances and attacking liberals, feminists, environmentalists, Democrats, and Black political leaders.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/10/2021
Larry Flynt, Who Built a Porn Empire With Hustler, Dies at 78
"Mr. Flynt’s interpretation was simpler. 'If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me,' he said, 'then it will protect all of you. Because I’m the worst'."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/9/2021
Rush Limbaugh is Ailing. And so is the Conservative Talk-Radio Industry
Nicole Hemmer argues that Limbaugh was instrumental in making the Republican Party captive to its voter base, a base led by the content of increasingly right-wing media.
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SOURCE: Boston Globe
1/14/2021
How Heather Cox Richardson Built a Sisterhood of Concerned Americans
Heather Cox Richardson's successful newsletter and growing grassroots media stardom reflects Americans' hunger for historical understanding but also, especially among her female readers, for a calm and compassionate style of analysis.
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1/17/2021
The Free Press and Democracy in a "Murder the Media" Age
by Wendy Melillo
Journalism as a profession needs to embrace its historical role as a guardian of democracy and refuse to let objectivity work as a shield for authoritarianism; authoritarians won't accept a free press anyway.
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SOURCE: New York Times
Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom. It’s Working
NYT media reporter Ben Smith looks at the phenomenon of Heather Cox Richardson's newsletters, which have become popular for their long view of the present moment and rejection of sensationalized outrage.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
11/29/2020
The Cost of Trump’s Assault on the Press and the Truth
New Yorker editor David Remnick writes that while Trump is not the first president to battle the media, his apparent belief that the press exists as his public relations agency--and anger that it doesn't work that way--are leading him to attack a fundamental institution of society with deadly consequences.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/17/2020
The Outrage Peddlers Are Here to Stay
Campus Reform seeks to "stoke outrage at ‘liberal’ professors, with the political intent of creating a viral sensation that circulates through a highly partisan right-wing media ecosystem, and into the broader public discussion,” says Isaac Camola, a political science professor who has been active in organizing professors who are targeted by outrage campaigns.
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SOURCE: Leominster (MA) Champion
11/16/2020
Fitchburg State Professor Named to Library of Congress Task Force
Fitchburg (MA) State University professor Katherine Rye Jewell has been named to a Library of Congress task force for the preservation of college and community radio.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/12/2020
Trump Ruled Conservative Media As President. Will He Find His Next Job There?
by Nicole Hemmer
If, as appears increasingly certain, Donald Trump leaves the presidency in January, will he return to his natural habitat of the media?
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/8/2020
Elections Don’t Have to Be So Chaotic and Excruciating
by Stephen I. Vladeck
A uniform procedure for publicizing the vote count can eliminate the chaos of haphazard vote counts and remove the opportunity for candidates to portray the normal process of counting votes as irregular or crooked.
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
11/5/2020
President Trump’s False Claims about Election Fraud are Dangerous
by Sid Bedingfield
Elected officials' use of the media to claim election fraud has resulted in violence in the past; the news media must take responsibility to avoid fanning the flames.
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