American faith in news is at an all-time low, aided by a president hostile to the press. But presidents have long attacked journalists as biased. What does objectivity really mean?
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With a federal indictment of former President Donald Trump, currently a presidential candidate, a legal scholar explores what the law says about the consequences of such an unprecedented act.
Journalism has been fodder for politicians’ contempt for generations. A huge percentage of the public doesn’t trust the news media either. That mistrust isn’t a bad thing in a democracy.
When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.
What if impeaching the president meant the White House would switch parties? It was an ethical question Democrats faced in the 1970s.
Wedge issues that have divided American voters for years are losing their edge.
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Professor, Department of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine
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The E. William Davis Jr, M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
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Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University
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Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism, Northwestern University