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Reed Richardson

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Reed Richardson

Reed Richardson is former Army officer who holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University and a M.S from the Columbia University School of Journalism. In addition to his writing for TheNation.com, Reed’s media criticism has also appeared in Harvard University’s Nieman Reports and in the textbook Media Ethics (Current Controversies) (Greenhaven Press, 2012).

Articles

News and Features

The GOP-Fox Circus Act (US Politics, Media, Politics)

Post Election Day, is the network's huge audience tuning out?

Reed Richardson
The Doomsday Prepper Caucus (Media Analysis, Conservatives and the American Right, Television)

Prophecies of government tyranny, financial meltdown and violent anarchy featured on Doomsday Preppers are being absorbed into contemporary conservatism.

Reed Richardson

Blogs

Why Won’t Congress Follow?
Eric on Howard Kurtz, Reed on the disfunction in the capital.
Eric Alterman
The Bush Presidency, Undead
With the opening of George W's presidential library, pundits are rushing to whitewash the memory of those years of folly.
Eric Alterman
Give Me the Bad News First
Press coverage is hasty, error-prone and frequently depressing—but it nonetheless plays a vital role in our society.
Eric Alterman
The Beltway Media's Best-Kept Budget Secret
Social Security hasn't contributed to this deficit and won't add to future debt—and it's journalistic malpractice for the...
Eric Alterman
The 'Undo-Everything' Congress: What the Press Doesn't See
The hard-right wing exerts an oversized influence on our gridlocked Congress, thanks in part to a Beltway media enamored of them.
Eric Alterman
Propaganda Propagation
A column arguing that a liberal foundation outspent the Koch brothers disproves its own assertion in a disclaimer—which conveniently...
Eric Alterman
30 Seconds Over Toledo: How Political Ads Spell Trouble for TV News and Democracy
In the wake of Citizens United, big campaign donors are buying off not only politicians, but also the local news networks that cover...
Eric Alterman
The Dark Side of Democracy
The lead-up to the Iraq War ten years ago shows us how the media today falsely correlates importance and exclusivity.
Eric Alterman
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