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MARKET ORIENTATION, TV NEWS, AND THE AMPLIFICATION OF VIOLENCE

Written by GINO CANELLA Posted June 18, 2020 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Chart of Standing Rock media frames

In 2017, we examined CNN and Democracy Now!’s coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota, to understand how the market orientation of two news organizations influenced the production and distribution of their protest coverage.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: analysis, CNN, criticism, Democracy Now, media, news, opinion, think piece, violence

HOW TO GET MY SUPPORT: THE SCRAMBLE FOR BLACK VOTES NEEDS TO ADDRESS ISSUES THAT MATTER TO US

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted February 19, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Although most African Americans are Democrats today, our disaffection from the GOP only led us to FDR’s Democratic party after Republicans reneged on their formerly strong civil rights plank.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Black vote, CNN, Manchester Divided, media, Politics, Primary, Sanders, Trump, Van Jones, voters, voting, Warren

MEDICAL CANNABIS SPECIAL: TREATING YOURSELF

Written by CHRISTINE GIRAUD Posted May 22, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction, Talking Joints Memo

When Western medicine failed, these patients designed their own successful cannabis regimens

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction, Talking Joints Memo Tagged With: benzodiazepines, cannabis, Carolyn Kaufman, CNN, epilepsy, Iraq war, Liz Minda, Marijuana, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, medical cannabis, regimens, Sanjay Gupta, Stephen Mandile, VA, veterans, weed, Western medicine

THE YEAR IN VICTIM BLAMING

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted December 31, 2014 Filed Under: Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS

If this year has told us anything, it is that these victims will no longer be silent, and shall not be forgotten.

Filed Under: Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 2014, Bill Cosby, CNN, Columbia University, Don Lemon, Hannibal Burress, Rolling Stone, sexual violence, victim-blaming

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