Ep.16: Editorial Boards: Protectors of Establishment Ideology
Added 2017-11-15 15:20:40 +0000 UTCEditorial boards are the establishment voice from above, handing out decrees of moral and political import behind an anonymous byline. Major papers like The New York Times and The Washington Post have an Official Position and it's important that Important People hear the Official Important Position. But of what use is this 19th century artifact? Whose interest does it serve and why does it even still exist?
On today's show we attempt to answer these questions and more with guests Janine Jackson and Jim Naureckas of FAIR.org
The Guests
Janine Jackson is the program director of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting and producer/host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show CounterSpin. She contributes frequently to FAIR’s newsletter Extra!, and co-edited The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the ’90s.
Jim Naureckas is the editor of FAIR.org, the website of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. Since 1990, he has edited Extra!, FAIR’s print publication, now a monthly newsletter. He is the co-author of Way Things Aren’t: Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error, and co-editor of The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the ’90s. You can follow him on Twitter at @JNaureckas.
Show Notes
For NYT, Making the Democrats Safe for the Oligarchy Is Literally Job One
Jim Naureckas | October 28, 2017 | FAIR
NYT Laments ‘Forever Wars’ Its Editorials Helped Create
Adam Johnson | October 23, 2017 | FAIR
Doublethink on the Editorial Page
Janine Jackson | July 1, 1998 | FAIR
By Any Means Necessary: The Ultra-Relativism of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page
Edward S. Herman | September 1, 1995 | FAIR
References
New York Times Editorial Board | May 26, 2004 | The New York Times
Iraq and the Media: A Critical Timeline
March 19, 2007 | FAIR
Looking Back at Iraq With…Michael Gordon?
Peter Hart | March 20, 2013 | FAIR
New York Times Editorial Board | July 7, 2016 | The New York Times
Janine Jackson | September 1, 1998 | FAIR
The Crack Baby Myth: Now They Tell Us
Janine Jackson | January 30, 2009 | FAIR
Comments
Going through the archives... I think there was a book mentioned in this episode that isn’t listed here? Anyone?
Evan Hiltunen
2020-08-20 01:50:09 +0000 UTCConsistently excellent podcast. Thank you!
SJ
2017-11-22 02:24:31 +0000 UTCmy two favourite podcasts in one episode, i love it! also, i was just thinking if you get really desperate for extra funding you could always threaten to turn to corporate backers and see what happens....npr has no problem taking money from the koch brothers why not you? lol, keep up the great work and thanks!
Emma & Brian
2017-11-17 06:16:15 +0000 UTCJanine Jackson hell yeah
sensorsweep
2017-11-15 15:38:55 +0000 UTC
