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    • The Race Issue in Australia’s 2001 Election: A Creation of Politicians or the Press? 

      Kelly, Paul (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2002)
      In late August 2001, the routine journey across the Indian Ocean of a Norwegian freighter, the Tampa, would become a voyage from hell, with the Tampa itself transformed into a floating monument to inhumanity, the focus of ...

    • Rainbow’s End: Public Support for Democracy in the New South Africa 

      Morin, Richard (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)
      The two headlines on the front page of the Cape Times on this South African summer morning in February told of two democracies battling their own worst impulses. Terrorists had bombed another police station in downtown ...

    • Real Time Television Coverage of Armed Conflicts and Diplomatic Crises: Does it Pressure or Distort Foreign Policy Decisions 

      Gowing, Nik (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1994)
      Instant, real-time television coverage of the latest generation of armed conflicts is the curse of policy makers. The relationship between such coverage and foreign policy is profound but fickle. Conventional wisdom is ...

    • Rebelling Against the Rich: Lessons from the media’s coverage of the 1% divide 

      Easton, Nina J. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2012-09)
      Alexis de Tocqueville, arguably the first investigative journalist to ply U.S. soil, famously chronicled American society’s love of equality—and its equally passionate pursuit of money. “The love of wealth,” the French ...

    • Redefining Foreign Correspondence 

      Hamilton, John Maxwell; Jenner, Eric (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2003)
      Along with American journalism generally, foreign correspondence has evolved in the last 250 years so that it scarcely resembles its colonial origins. Not the least of these differences is that it never occurred to colonial ...

    • Reflections on Television's Role in American Presidential Elections 

      Grossman, Lawrence K. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1990-01)
      More than a century before television came on the scene, Alexis de Toqueville wrote in Democracy in America, "The press...constitutes a singular power, so strangely composed of mingled good and evil that liberty could not ...

    • The Reporter's Privilege, Then and Now 

      Bates, Stephen (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000-04)
      In this paper, I try to explore how prosecutors and journalists see the issue of press subpoenas. I look first at how the issue has been framed and fought over the years. Next I track the ABC subpoena, the litigation over ...

    • The Reporters 

      Sanders, Alex (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2005)
      In election year 2002, I ran for the United States Senate. I was the Democratic nominee from South Carolina to succeed the legendary J. Strom Thurmond (R-SC). The Republican candidate was Congressman Lindsey Graham.1 ...

    • Reporting on the 2008 Financial Crisis, and the Next One 

      Lenzner, Robert (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2014-12)
      What follows are the conclusions I reached. Most of them are deeply alarming to me as a journalist and a citizen because what became inescapably clear is that we are still living today with the same global financial system ...

    • Restoring Comity to Congress 

      Gibson, Charles (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2011-01)
      It should not be surprising that long-time members of Congress talk nostalgically about “the old days” when friendships between Democrats and Republicans were commonplace, not the exception but the rule. They tell the story ...

    • RIPTIDE: What Really Happened to the News Business 

      Huey, John; Nisenholtz, Martin; Sagan, Paul (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2013-09)
      For most of the 20th century, any list of America’s wealthiest families would include quite a few publishers generally considered to be in the “news business”: the Hearsts, the Pulitzers, the Sulzbergers, the Grahams, the ...

    • The Rise and Fall of the Televised Political Convention 

      Karabell, Zachary (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1998-10)
      In “The Rise and Fall of the Televised Political Convention,” Zachary Karabell traces the history of the broadcast conventions, building a strong case for the proposition that the parties and the networks together have ...

    • The Rise of the "New News": A Case Study of Two Root Causes of the Modern Scandal Coverage 

      Kalb, Marvin (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1998-10)
      This study is about press coverage of the first few weeks of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. It is not about whether President Clinton lied, or encouraged others to lie; he said on August 17, 1998 that he had been less than ...

    • The Road to Wikipolitics: Life and Death of the Modern Presidential Primary b. 1968 – d. 2008 

      Fiedler, Tom (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2008)
      A paper by Tom Fiedler, fall 2007 fellow, considers whether the structure of the presidential primary – which includes special treatment of Iowa, New Hampshire and, lately, Nevada and South Carolina, is in decline. Fiedler ...

    • The Role of Georgia’s Media—and Western Aid—in the Rose Revolution 

      Anable, David (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2006)
      This study examines the role of the Georgian media in the country’s Rose Revolution and the impact that Western media development aid played in enabling this to occur. It also looks at what has happened to the country’s ...

    • The Role of the News Media in Unequal Political Conflicts: From the Intifada to the Gulf War and Back Again 

      Wolfsfeld, Gadi (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1993-06)
      The role of the news media in political conflicts is a topic that has received more public attention than academic study. Discussions of this issue have themselves become a routine part of news stories and public discussions ...

    • The Russian and Soviet Press: A Long Journey from Suppression to Freedom via Suppression and Glasnost 

      Merkushev, Alexander (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1991-08)
      As fate would have it, the Russians had to make their way towards democratic liberties and press freedom twice: first within the framework of czarist Russia and then repeating the entire path within the Communist structure ...

    • The Sanctions Against Russia: What Did the West and the Media Expect? 

      Bohlen, Celestine (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2015-01)
      Certainly, the decision to sanction Putin’s “cronies” grabbed headlines both in the West and in Russia – even though the most effective, and innovative, aspect of the Russian regime sanctions has to do with “micro-targeting,” ...

    • School for Scandal 

      Bok, Sissela (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1990-04)
      The concept of a "School for Scandal" in the context of today's politics raises intriguing questions. What kinds of teaching and what kinds of learning might be at issue? Who are the instructors when it comes to scandal? ...

    • Secrets about Secrets: The Backstage Conversations between Press and Government 

      Siegal, Allan M. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2007)
      This paper will examine vetting arrangements described by journalists and capsule case histories of both agreement and refusal to withhold information. The examples, nearly all from the post-9/11 period, demonstrate that ...