Media Hits: January 2022
Every month, media outlets around the world consult with the experts at the Newhouse School for context on what’s happening in communications and why. Here are some of this month’s stories:
Associate Professor
COMMUNICATIONS
Media hits
- ‘It’s an easy fast dollar’: How organized retail theft rings in one Ohio town use Facebook Marketplace to sell stolen goods
NBC NEWS - Twitter’s Marjorie Taylor Green ban fuels GOP attacks on ‘Big Tech’
THE HILL
“It’s starting to look like whoever can exploit Facebook the most wins. Anything goes, selling drugs, selling weapons, fencing goods.”
Jennifer Grygiel
Associate Professor
MAGAZINE, NEWS AND DIGITAL JOURNALISM
Media hits
- Rand Paul Quits Youtube, Cites Censorship
NTD - Sarah Palin set to battle New York Times at defamation trial
REUTERS
“This is a lawsuit over an editorial, essentially an opinion. This is a potentially dangerous area. If we give public officials a green light to litigate on editorials they disagree with, where’s the end?”
Roy Gutterman
J. Christopher Hamilton
Assistant Professor
TELEVISION, RADIO AND FILM
Media hits
Trustee Professor
TELEVISION, RADIO AND FILM
“Betty White’s career in television goes back, for all intents and purposes, before television. Nobody had a TV in 1939.”
Robert Thompson
- Music catalogs are fetching huge deals. Are they overvalued?
LOS ANGELES TIMES
“If I can count on one thing, as I look at the history of the music business, it’s that you can always count on folks saying people are paying too much for publishing assets. And generally, they’re not.”
Bill Werde