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Good for the Media, Bad for America

How serious political reporting became a luxury good amid a mass-market media circus.

Published on: July 19, 2016
Martha Bayles teaches at Boston College and is a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute, working on a study of U.S. international broadcasting. Her book, Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America’s Image Abroad, was published by Yale in 2014.
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