Archive - Many Too Many

In the midst of death

A brief meditation on Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death and the role of the fear of death in American politics and society

Jun 7 •

Aaron S. Veenstra

March 2024

A series of unfortunate kludges for doing content analysis of radio

It took a lot of tinkering, but I have finally constructed a very rickety but working method to capture multiple simultaneous radio streams, starting…

Mar 21 •

Aaron S. Veenstra

December 2023

Journalism is context

It’s not too strong to say that, fundamentally, journalism is context. Facts have different meanings in different contexts, and the contextual work is…

Dec 20, 2023 •

Aaron S. Veenstra

October 2023

Opinion journalism that doesn't do journalism is just opinion

Opinion journalism, as a practice and as a body of work, takes a lot of flak. Most of it is deserved, which makes it especially important to recognize…

Oct 21, 2023 •

Aaron S. Veenstra

February 2017

News is not a market commodity

Putting your “real” news and other sources’ “fake” news in one big pot and expecting to float to the top fundamentally misunderstands what news is, and…

Feb 3, 2017 •

Aaron S. Veenstra

January 2017

Open tabs, January 25

Four quick links

Jan 26, 2017 •

Aaron S. Veenstra

The forest is made of trees

I saw Spotlight for the first time a few days ago, and as a dramatization of journalism there were two things that struck me as incredibly insightful…

Jan 4, 2017 •

Aaron S. Veenstra

December 2016

Moving forward: RQ5. Who sets Trump’s agenda?

In my post on media effects, I mentioned that Donald Trump himself had essentially become a media outlet as far as news information flows were…

Dec 29, 2016 •

Aaron S. Veenstra

The 2016 campaign was a study in media effects

As different as the 2016 election cycle was from the norm, in many ways the actions and attitudes of the national political press were entirely as…

Dec 25, 2016 •

Aaron S. Veenstra

Meowtivated reasoning

Every year or so, when a little news boomlet happens about a new study of the number of small animals killed by loose cats, I think about how his first…

Dec 24, 2016 •

Aaron S. Veenstra

The nucleus burning inside of the cell

Milwaukee has 323 voting wards that can be legitimately analyzed (three had zero votes in either election, and one had four votes in 2012 and five in…

Dec 22, 2016 •

Aaron S. Veenstra

Out in the city, into the sunshine

Waukesha has a lot to tell us about Clinton’s columns, as well. It and Madison — political polar opposites — are the only two of the ten cities where…

Dec 21, 2016 •

Aaron S. Veenstra

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