MSNBC and the Media’s Third Rail

Welcome back to In the Room. Needless to say, the rapidly developing situation in Israel and Gaza is top of mind here at Harvard, and everywhere. So, tonight, a meditation on the media coverage of the atrocity and its aftermath—and the inevitably fraught debates about that coverage, which are taking place, most notably, on MSNBC.
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Welcome back to In the Room.

I’m heading back to Los Angeles after a fruitful trip to Cambridge for the Harvard Shorenstein Center’s fall gathering, where we waxed prosaic on all of the media’s most pressing editorial and business challenges. (I’ll be back in New York early next week.)

Needless to say, the rapidly developing situation in Israel and Gaza is top of mind here at Harvard, and everywhere. So, tonight, a meditation on the media coverage of the atrocity and its aftermath—and the inevitably fraught debates about that coverage, which are taking place, most notably, on MSNBC.

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MSNBC and the Media’s Third Rail

Cable news has always struggled to balance moral clarity with the view from nowhere, especially when it pertains to Israel and Palestine. For many, the atrocities of the past week have validated the importance of on-the-ground reporting in an era where success is too often determined by style over substance.

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On Friday, I was sitting in an Israeli-American café just off Harvard Square, trying to fathom the fraught scene taking place outside my window. Parked immediately outside the café was a now infamous mobile billboard truck that has been driving around campus, displaying the names and faces of...

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