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January 2017
Open tabs, January 25
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Aaron S. Veenstra
Moving forward: RQ4. What did voters know about 2016’s major campaign stories?
If the press exists to inform the public, how can its performance be assessed? Journalists often respond to critique by noting that partisans on both…
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Aaron S. Veenstra
Build that wall
For the good of the country and the world, Twitter must wall off Donald Trump’s account. Yesterday saw Trump double down on his embrace of Taiwan by…
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Aaron S. Veenstra
The big piece of chicken
Am I confident that the press can avoid moon journalism, chasing shiny objects that they can reflect to the public? I am not.
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Aaron S. Veenstra
Moving forward: RQ3. What is journalism for?
An unmoored press is as likely to damage a democratic society as to serve it, and a press pointed at the wrong goals can be just as bad.
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Aaron S. Veenstra
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