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What I have learned in my years studying the role of journalism in civic discussion is that democracies are best served when media coverage focuses on issues that affect society and people’s everyday lives and minimizes “horse race” reporting that obsesses over who is ahead in opinion surveys or fundraising.

Jeff South • Are journalists serving Virginia's voters well? Election could offer insights on media on national level

But Rick Ludwin, the man who ultimately made the show happen, was the next best thing.

Adam Grant • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

the average television viewer could retain only 20 percent of the information contained in a fictional televised news story.

Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Andy Stanley, Johnny Carson, Howard Hendricks, Ronald Reagan, Billy Graham,

John C. Maxwell • The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential

CBS has been under fire for selectively editing their interviews to PROMOTE Democrats and UNDERMINE Republicans. Yesterday, they chose to cut FIVE important minutes out of my nearly 15 minute interview. You can be the judge as to why. Stand by for the receipts... See more

Speaker Mike Johnson x.com

From a Ted Koppel interview in Frontline: News War: To the extent that we're now judging journalism by the same standards that we apply to entertainment — in other words, give the public what it wants, not necessarily what it ought to hear, what it ought to see, what it needs, but what it wants — that may prove to be ... See more

Talk show hosts as the figureheads of paternalistic society, culture nanny - Alissa Bennett

The traditional view of the press was never based on some contrived, mathematical notion of “balance,” i.e. five paragraphs of Republicans for every five paragraphs of Democrats. The ideal instead was that we showed you everything we could see, good and bad, ugly and not, trusting that a better-informed public would make better decisions. This visi... See more

Matt Taibbi • The American Press Is Destroying Itself - Reporting by Matt Taibbi

My sister-in-law is an Ealing MP, and you see how hard she works. Callow’s set up to be someone with a whiff of public school about him. You’d normally go, “Fuck that guy”, so this felt like quite a nice reversal. There’s a key moment about halfway through when his wife comes in and faces off with him, really upset. That’s when you see the personal