News from the Annenberg School for Communication
July 3, 2012
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, talked to The Washington Post about political advertisements and their agenda-setting capabilities. Prof. Jamieson also joined a discussion on MSNBC regarding whether or not Americans are better off now than they were four years ago. Prof. Jamieson also was called upon recently to discuss politics and the 2012 campaign on The Takeaway.
Prof. Jamieson talked to WHYY (NPR affiliate radio station in Philadelphia) for a story about the rhetoric surrounding the health care law. She was interviewed by BloombergBusinessweek regarding the political boost President Obama received from the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the health care law.
Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication, talked to The Cincinnati Enquirer about the tendency of personal photographs going viral on the internet.
Victor Pickard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, talked to The Philadelphia Inquirer about the frenzied efforts by the news media to cover the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on President Obama’s health care program.
Carlin Romano’s new book, America the Philosophical, was the subject of an interview on NPR’s Radio Times With Marty Moss-Coane(WHYY Philadelphia), and was the lead review in the Sunday, July 1 edition of The New York Times Book Review.
FlackCheck.org released a report on the percentage of presidential advertising dollars being spent on 501(c)(4)s and the high percentage of inaccuracies in those advertisements. Coverage appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, ABC News blogs, The Huffington Post, and the Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Leader-Telegram.
Additional recent mentions of FlackCheck.org and FactCheck.org in the news include Politico.com, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, The Huffington Post, Wiscnews.com (Madison, WI), and TheHill.com.
Editor’s note: A story in the June 19 edition of Annenberg In Touch about Peter Hart’s focus group should have pointed out that the focus group project is a part of the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s “Voices of Voters” initiative.
The latest issue of News Link, the Annenberg School for Communication school and alumni magazine, is now available online.
Andy Tan co-authors paper on using television to help get children through difficult medical procedures.
Nora Draper published in Surveillance & Society.
Editor’s note: Annenberg In Touch is currently on a summer schedule, publishing every other week until Labor Day.
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