by Greg Johnson | Dec 20, 2020 | Activism, Media Reform, Public Interest
About VICE Media In 2015, when Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit inmates at a federal prison, VICE Media was selected to be the media group to produce a video of the visit. [View] Journalists with VICE Media have been given exclusive access to...
by Greg Johnson | Jul 2, 2020 | Activism, Media Reform, Politics, Public Interest, Technology
Conspiracy theories are spreading rapidly on the Internet. And they find an audience that believes them. Scientists are studying why people have a tendency to believe nonsense is true. The Internet has profoundly changed our thinking in less than two decades. No other...
by Greg Johnson | Oct 2, 2019 | Activism, Media Reform, Public Interest
Introduction The Des Moines Register is an award-winning Iowa newspaper, having received 16 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding achievements and public service. At the time of its most recent acquisition by Gannette in 1985, it was second to the New York Times in the...
by Greg Johnson | Jun 25, 2019 | Activism, Advertising, Consumer News, Health, Media Reform
It’s getting more difficult for companies to advertise tobacco and alcohol products. Tobacco ads are no longer permitted on television.(1) On websites and YouTube, age verification is required to view content purportedly targeting an adult audience. The tobacco...
by Greg Johnson | Nov 13, 2018 | Activism, Media Reform, Politics, Public Interest
At a time when journalists and news media agencies are is being harshly criticized for being too biased (to the right or left), Vice Media is standing out as a mostly impartial news reporting group helping to empower and advance the media reform movement. When...
by Greg Johnson | Nov 12, 2018 | Activism, Media Reform, Public Interest
In recent years, daytime talk shows, nighttime talk shows, comedians, journalists, the entertainment industry, and news media outlets have been perceived to be left-leaning and supportive of Democratic Party candidates and policies. Some of these perceptions are well...
by Greg Johnson | May 17, 2018 | Activism, Media Reform, Politics
News media outlets have increasingly been under scrutiny for producing stories that are labeled “Fake News” which could be broadly described as stories that provide exaggerated, biased, misleading, or false information. In some cases, the stories are...
by Greg Johnson | Apr 1, 1971 | Activism, Consumer News, Education, Effective Living, Learning, Lifeways, Media Reform, Politics, Public Interest, Public Policy
About “Tactics for Survival in the Corporate State: Life, Love and Other Stuff,” Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, April 1, 1971, Broadcast on Iowa Educational Broadcast Network, April 12, 1971. The lecture runs an hour and ten minutes. The Q&A, which...
