Media

... a serious news network was never a fitting venue for his nativist, anti-immigrant pep rallies,” wrote Andres Martinez of the New America Foundation. ...

The New America Foundation today announced that Tom Glaisyer will be its first Knight Media Policy Fellow, focusing on national media policy changes and related developments under a new grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The night of September 9 appeared to fulfill all the promise underlying NBC Universal's ambitious $2.7 billion acquisition in 2001 of Telemundo, the second-largest Spanish language television network in the U.S. On that night, the NBC sibling carried President Obama's important healthcare address to a joint session of Congress-on a slight delay to allow for dubbing into Spanish-followed by its highest-rated program ever, which reached more than 5 million viewers.

The New America Foundation today announced a fellowship program aimed at tracking and critiquing national media policy changes under a new grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The grant was announced the same day the Knight Commission for the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy issued its report suggesting media policy changes.

My guess is that Van Jones and Bob McDonnell aren't the closest of friends. One is an African-American activist from the progressive left, who's spent much of his adult life in inner-city Oakland fighting The Man; the other is a white middle-aged pro-life Catholic Republican, who has long represented The Man in the deep-red Sunbelt suburbs of Virginia. But I'd recommend that Jones and McDonnell get in touch.

This past week, the straight-talking John McCain the media knows and loves made a conspicuous comeback. On Face the Nation, McCain struck a decidedly post-partisan note, praising the late Senator Kennedy before sharply contradicting fellow Republican Dick Cheney on torture. After a punishing defeat at the hands of Barack Obama, McCain seems to have regained his stature and his reputation for independence. He's had more media exposure than any other leading Republican, certainly far more than John Kerry in 2005… more

In a talk at the New America Foundation (NAF) on Monday, Khanfar expressed hope that the Obama administration may afford the opportunity for a period of ...

On July 27, Wadah Khanfar, the director general of the Al Jazeera Network, joined Steve Clemons, the director of the New America Foundation's American Strategy Program to discuss the nature and motivations of Al Jazeera and the network's relationship with the United States.

As we mourn the loss of Walter Cronkite, perhaps the world's most celebrated television journalist, we're also mourning the death of a common culture. After a long and successful career as a print journalist, most notably as a correspondent covering the final phase of the Second World War in Europe and North Africa, he emerged as one of the first of the television news stars, covering everything from national political conventions to celebrity fluff. And as anchor of the CBS Evening News, he set a pattern that… more

Not since the aftermath of 9/11 has the word "evil" been bandied about so much in the public media. Last week, while sentencing Bernard Madoff to 150 years in prison, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin brought the term back in a big way. Chin's characterization of Madoff's crimes as "extraordinarily evil" was so striking that it made headlines around the world. And, as usual whenever that loaded word is used, there were plenty of people who were offended by it.