Hard Pass

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Hard Pass episodes

  • Is it 1984? (audio only)

    In this episode the team discusses the administration's efforts to control the message. The president fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a bad jobs report was made public. Is a comparison to Orwell's 1984 legitimate or not?

    52 min
  • Is it 1984?

    In this episode the team discusses the administration's efforts to control the message. The president fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a bad jobs report was made public. Is a comparison to Orwell's 1984 legitimate or not?

    52 min
  • It's Like Gum On My Shoe (audio only)

    The team is analyzing the coverage of the story that won't seem to go away - the Epstein files. In addition to the coverage, we'll discuss a media theory that applies to the persistence of the story: Agenda Setting.

    44 min
  • It's Like Gum On My Shoe

    The team is analyzing the coverage of the story that won't seem to go away - the Epstein files. In addition to the coverage, we'll discuss a media theory that applies to the persistence of the story: Agenda Setting.

    44 min
  • Don't Shoot the Messenger

    In this episode, the team looks at the litigation Donald Trump has been engaging in with media outlets. What really led to the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert?

    44 min
  • The Politics of a Flood

    On this episode, we talk about how politics became a part of the story of the tragic flood in Central Texas. Should politics be part of the story when news media report on a catastrophic natural disaster?

    45 min

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White House reporter Brian Karem (Salon) and two university journalism professors, Dr. Michael Mirer (UW-Milwaukee) and Dr. Mark Mederson (Texas State University), analyze whether news media are…