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Media Archive

Archives for November 2018

TV
Netflix’s Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj is distinct, funny, and truly informativeNetflix’s Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj is distinct, funny, and truly informative
TV

Minhaj is the talk show host we need and the talk show host we deserve.

By Karen Han
Politics
Poll: GOP voters blame news for division in America; Democrats blame TrumpPoll: GOP voters blame news for division in America; Democrats blame Trump
Politics

The Morning Consult/Politico poll comes a few days after Trump slammed the media as the “true Enemy of the People.”

By Stavros Agorakis
Science
Fox News says the migrant caravan will bring disease outbreaks. That’s xenophobic nonsense.Fox News says the migrant caravan will bring disease outbreaks. That’s xenophobic nonsense.
Science

Smallpox was eradicated in the 20th century.

By Julia Belluz
Technology
Turn and face the change: Recode and Vox.com are partneringTurn and face the change: Recode and Vox.com are partnering
Technology

More of the same and more of the different.

By Kara Swisher
National Geographic’s November cover falls back on a racist cliché
Media

The white cowboy versus the “savage native”: 8 months after its “racial reckoning,” the magazine takes two steps backward.

By Kainaz Amaria
Technology
‘The Front Runner’ director Jason Reitman says technology has taught today’s young people how to be great filmmakers‘The Front Runner’ director Jason Reitman says technology has taught today’s young people how to be great filmmakers
Technology

Everything from selfies to YouTube has armed Generation Z with an “inherent” appreciation of film technique, Reitman says.

By Eric Johnson