Category: Media and Elections
Theories of American Media Failure: A Post-Election Map
Everybody agrees that media helped, to a great extent, make Trump president. So what went wrong? The week after election day, theories about media failure…
The Anti-Orban Revolution Won’t Be Televised
Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban has been quietly gaining control over a media empire, especially TV assets, with the help of oligarchs fighting to win…
How Media Has Become Netanyahu & Co in Israel
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is becoming hypersensitive to his critics. He’s figured out how to solve the problem: bring all media into line. On…
Donald Trump: New Media Success, or Old Media Problem?
The Donald may be master of the Twitter-verse, but his influence extends at least as much from the structural contradictions of old media campaign coverage….
Prime Minister’s War With Critical Journalists Puts off Slovak Voters
The Social-Democrat party Smer-SD in power in Slovakia now expects another victory in the upcoming elections on Saturday. But its leader’s unabated nastiness towards critical…
Bracing for Elections, Iran’s Government Wants to Hire an Internet Censoring Company
Back in 2013, Iran didn’t meddle with the internet before the presidential elections because they knew people liked the then would-be president Rouhani. But now,…
