State of the Media
State of the Media: Joining the GOP Circus
We are more than a year away from electing the next leader of the free world, and I’m getting the overwhelming sense that some of our political media’s most...Read More
State of the Media: Small-Town News
In June, the small-town drama played out in the storied newspaper’s offices rather than in its pages. Citing months of financial disputes with the Jimp’s ow...Read More
State of the Media: The Scene of the Crimes
In collaboration with a walking tour app that uses GPS technology, the producers of Radiolab have created a self-guided walking tour that takes listeners back t...Read More
State of the Media: Building a Better Punditocracy
An unsurprising new report found that Texas political media is dominated by white, male voices, while marginalized Texans continue to be underrepresented....Read More
Want to Track the #txlege? Here’s Who to Follow on Twitter
When state Rep. Jonathan Stickland proudly declared himself a “former fetus” a few weeks ago by posting a sign over the nameplate near his office door, the ...Read More
Dallas Chef’s Beef with Food Critic More than a Little Overdone
There's nothing wrong with criticism, but a Dallas chef's online harassment campaign against the daily paper's restaurant critic shows his poor taste....Read More
Being Charlie Hebdo
We cannot simply stop at support for free speech when we talk about the murders at Charlie Hebdo; we must go further and ask: What do we do next?...Read More
The Mental Gymnastics of Excusing White Men’s Violence
a white Christian man plans and executes a terrorist attack in Texas’ capital and he’s just a nice guy who lost his way, a Renaissance Faire enthusiast in a...Read More
The Curious Case of the Ebola Troll
With all the Ebola fear-mongering in the media, how can we justify locking up a kid who used a computer to create a mirror that reflects our terrified faces bac...Read More
Breitbart Texas: All Thunder, No Rain
Breitbart Texas has imported an inside-the-Beltway model of smear “journalism” that’s blatantly partisan, enthusiastically flakkish and of a type not comm...Read More