Middle-of-the-night tweets with errant capitalization and grammar, vitriolic insults, flat out denials of known truths: We have never had a president who communicates quite like Donald Trump. KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of FactCheck.org, joins Marty for a […] Read more »
Kathleen Hall Jamieson in Conversation with Marty Kaplan
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center, won the 2018 Ev Rogers Award. In this concise discussion, she and Norman Lear Center Director Marty Kaplan cover V.D. (viral deception), “fake” news, truth, comm theory, Trump, Putin, and much […] Read more »
Civility is now a foreign concept in Americans politics. How did we get here — and how do we fix it?
Election season is already upon us and the passions of our tribal politics are rising to a full boil. … We’re once again facing the frustrating prospect of watching our candidates’ debates get hijacked by the angriest and loudest voices in the room. To prevent this from becoming reality, we […] Read more »
‘Transparency’ is the Mother of Fake News
For some time now everyone has been worrying about “fake news” or the world of “alternative fact” and wondering just how and why this unhappy phenomenon has flourished. My take on this question is simple, although I hope not simple-minded: Fake news is in large part a product of the […] Read more »
2016 Elite Cues and Public Misperception about Crime
The overestimation of crime rates is one of the most enduring and prevalent misperceptions in the U.S. Despite evidence clearly pointing to declines in various measures of crime in essentially every year over the last few decades, majorities of Americans during this same time span have consistently said crime has […] Read more »
Americans: Optimistic for country, but deep skepticism
For all countries, there is a tension between the idea of what they’d like to be and the reality what they actually are. A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds the gap between America’s idealized vision of itself and its reality is especially wide right now. CONT. Dante […] Read more »