Since the 1980s, cable news networks have focused on hyperpartisan news coverage to attract core audiences in an increasingly fragmented media market.
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Tucker Carlson and his employer, Fox News, had an incredible understanding of what their audience wants: a kind of authenticity that is not genuine but instead manipulative.
Senators followed a playbook familiar to millions of women. In promoting men, companies and other organizations have frequently brushed aside allegations of sexual assault and harassment.
After thousands of women spoke out against sexual harassment, scholars asked, does harassment affect women’s health? Their findings suggest that it does.
This story typically has two acts. First come the women’s reports of harassment – followed by the inevitable dismissal and undermining of them. Could this time be different?
Nondisclosure agreements are getting a bad rap these days because they’ve been used to prevent victims of sexual harassment and abuse from speaking out. But not all are nefarious.
Secret payments in exchange for silence regarding work-related sexual abuse are usually tax-deductible. How about changing that?
Incorporating lessons on healthy sexual behavior into sex ed classes and special prevention programs for youth could be key to reducing sexual violence, experts say.
Sexual harassment of women is detrimental not only because of setbacks it causes in the workplace. It also harms women’s health. Here’s how I discovered how widespread it is.
Hollywood’s sexual predation scandals are just the tip of the iceberg. One in three women worldwide has been physically or sexually assaulted, and many girls’ first sexual experience is forced.
As long as the media gives disproportionate prominence to powerful voices, they’ll be able to shape the way unflattering coverage unfolds.
It’s not as if the newsrooms of US television stations need any more bad publicity
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Professor of Law, University of Oregon
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Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
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Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Emergency Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Director of External Programs STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation, Core Faculty Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University
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Lecturer of History and Media Studies, California State University, East Bay
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Professor of Social Welfare, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor of Communication, University of Utah