MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Right-wing broadcasting was reborn when Reagan suspended the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, enabling the rise of Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News shortly thereafter.
How did political TV and radio move from honest intellectual combat to become a vast echo chamber? Heather Hendershot will answer this difficult question.
Michael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
Nicole Hemmer will explain how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right -- and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
