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SUMMARY:News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns
DESCRIPTION:In the 2012 presidential campaign\, a handful of media outlets deployed “fact-checking” divisions which reported the lies and distortions of the candidates. Some commentators have argued that these truth-squads exposed the inadequacy of standard print and broadcast coverage\, much of which seems more like entertainment than news. This forum will examine the changing role of the political media in the U.S. Is our political journalism serving democratic and civic ideals? What do emerging technologies and the proliferation of news sources mean for the future? \nTa-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic where he writes about culture\, politics\, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. \nMark McKinnon is a senior advisor of Hill & Knowlton Strategies\, an international communications consultancy\, a weekly columnist for The Daily Beast and The London Telegraph\, and is a co-founder of the bipartisan group No Labels. As a political advisor\, he has worked for many causes\, companies and candidates including former President George W. Bush\, 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain\, late former Texas Governor Ann Richards and Congressman Charlie Wilson.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/news-or-entertainment-press-modern-political-campaigns/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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