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Russia's President Vladimir Putin gives an interview to US talk show host Tucker Carlson at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 6, 2024. (GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Expert: How you can tell propaganda from journalism − let’s look at Tucker Carlson’s visit to Russia

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A local news team broadcasts outside the Hennepin County Government Center on April 8, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

The other George Floyd story: How media freedom led to conviction in his killer’s trial

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Substack isn’t a new model for journalism — it’s a very old one

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"Jeopardy!" champions Ken Jennings, left, and Brad Rutter, right, look on as an IBM computer called "Watson" beats them to the buzzer to answer a question during a practice round of the "Jeopardy!" quiz show in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. It's the size of 10 refrigerators, and it swallows encyclopedias whole, but an IBM computer was lacking one thing it needed to battle the greatest champions from the "Jeopardy!" quiz TV show - it couldn't hit a buzzer. But that's been fixed, and on Thursday the hardware and software system named Watson played a competitive practice round against two champions. A "Jeopardy!" show featuring the computer will air in mid-February, 2011. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (AP)

Think presidential debates are dull? Thank 1950s TV game shows

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Stephen Miller and Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." (Screenshot/Fox News Sunday)

Misinformation, evasion and the informational problem of live TV interviews

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Fox News isn’t the problem, it’s the media’s obsession with Fox News

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Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s headquarters (AP/Steve Ruark)

American broadcasting has always been closely intertwined with American politics

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