Does the mass media need to dumb down?
There was a time, decades ago, when the rule of thumb for mass media in South Africa was to produce ...
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Twitter diplomacy: How Trump is using social media to spur a crisis with Mexico
Six days after taking office, President Donald Trump faced the first international crisis of his administration. And it unfolded on Twitter. Luis ...
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Fake news could create big profits for mass media
The Trump administration might just have presented ailing news media with a golden opportunity to make healthy profits again. And it’s ...
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Fairey’s inauguration posters may define political art in Trump era
The American street artist Shepard Fairey created a poster for Barack Obama’s presidential election campaign. It was 2008 and the ...
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Unbelievable news? Read it again and you might think it’s true
In the weeks since the U.S. election, concerns have been raised about the prominence and popularity of false news stories ...
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Trump victory a warning shot across bows of news media
OPINION: The global news media should take the Trump election victory very seriously indeed because it will impact enormously on ...
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