Why Old Tactics Can’t Combat the Alt-Right
On November 18, the Washington Post detailed the satirical resistance strategies of Christopher Blair against the far right. Blair runs America’s Last Line of D...
First Amendment and Media
Great Television: Trump and the Morality of the Screen
A study by the Harvard Shorenstein Center showed that in his first 100 days as president, Donald Trump was the topic of 41 percent of national news coverage...
Donald Trump and the Rhetoric of Honest Lying
Just last week, Canadian country music artist Shania Twain gave an interview to The Guardian in which she praised Donald Trump’s honesty. “I would have voted fo...
When the President Attacks Private Citizens: Scapegoating Jemele Hill and the NFL Protesters
On September 11, 2017, ESPN employee and SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill tweeted that "Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself wi...
NRA’s Dana Loesch Ad
Recently, the NRA released a series of ads called Freedom’s Safest Place. In this roundup, Citizen Critics responds to spokeswoman Dana Loesch’s video...
Faking Fake News
On February 17, 2017, President Trump thundered on Twitter, “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy...
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A Short First Amendment History of the “Citizen-Critic”
The founders of the United States weren’t confused about the necessity of free speech to a free people....
Name-Calling: Labeling the ‘Alt-Right’ in Media
Our recent election cycle witnessed the proliferation of a new term — the “alt-right,” or alternative right — that has created problems for journalists: does th...