Economic View: Media Slant: A Question of Cause and Effect

Research finds that media owners generally don’t try to mold the population to their own brand of politics, but instead give customers what they want.



Afghan Ethnic Tensions Rise in Media and Politics

In Afghanistan, a growing uproar over ethnicity — Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara and Uzbek — has many concerned about possible violence, especially those who remember the country’s civil war.

    



Taking On Thailand’s Crisis With a Bit of Western Bite

“Shallow News in Depth,” founded by two Thai-Americans, uses acid-laced sarcasm in a style called “Jon Stewart on crack.”

    



China Wants Its Movies to Be Big in the U.S., Too

China’s ambitious new film entrepreneurs, dozens of whom gathered in California this week for industry events, want something that has largely eluded them: a homemade global hit.

    



My Story: Reporter Returns to Texas Capitol, Where Father’s Voice Still Rings

Babe Schwartz, my politician father, didn’t get why I chose journalism, but now we both know that life can take us full circle, if on different paths.

    



Crusading Spanish Broadcaster Gives Voice to Ordinary Citizens

Jordi Évole of the investigative television program “Salvados” has doubled his audience by taking on corrupt bureaucrats and powerful corporations.

    

For Nearly 5 Hours, a Confident Putin Takes Questions

As a legal dragnet began to close around figures in Russia’s political opposition, President Vladimir V. Putin returned to Kremlin stagecraft with a live, televised question-and-answer session.

    

Tim Russert | b. 1950: Role Model

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