by Sorana Stanescu | Sep 22, 2019 | Changes in Journalism, Journalism in the Trump Era, Political Coverage
Earlier this year, President Trumps named Baltimore “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” in a racist attack on Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings. The president suggested that conditions in Cummings’ district are “far worse and more dangerous” than...
by Rosen Tsvetkov | Sep 22, 2019 | Journalism in the era of "fake news", Journalism in the Trump Era, Personal Reflections, WPI Activities
The Newseum, a museum dedicated to journalism and the First Amendment, and situated between the White House and the U.S. Capitol, will close at the end of 2019. “This was a difficult decision, but it was the responsible one,” said Jan Neuharth, chair аnd CEO of the...
by Kate Bartlett | Sep 20, 2019 | Changes in Journalism, Journalism, Journalism in the era of "fake news", Journalism in the Trump Era, Personal Reflections, Political Coverage
Legacy U.S. newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post are using unprecedented language in their political copy with words like “lie” and “racist”. “We’d never used the word ‘lie’ before we had Trump,” Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York...
by Martin Kibaba | Sep 18, 2019 | Changes in Journalism, Journalism, Journalism in the Trump Era
What do you think are the most dangerous jobs in the world? This is a random question I asked people on the streets of New York City. And guess what the answers were: “Police, Military, body guards…” Well, we may think of these and even more like...
by Hamdi Baala | Sep 18, 2019 | American Presidency, Changes in Journalism, Journalism, Journalism in the era of "fake news", Journalism in the Trump Era, Political Coverage, Presidential Election
Two and a half years into Donald Trump’s term, the U.S. president has often stated that what he calls the “Fake News Media,” e.g. mainstream media outlets, do everything they can to downplay his accomplishments in order to make him look bad. “The Fake News Media...
by Hanna Liubakova | Sep 17, 2019 | Immigration Reform, Journalism in the Trump Era, Political Coverage, Social Media in Politics and Journalism
Donald Trump has consistently made opposition to immigration the center of his politics and Twitter feed. On Broadway, immigration is a topic to sing about. On the evening of September 12, I happened to be in a theater in New York City, watching “Hamilton,” the...
