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Jeff McCall

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As seen in: RealClear Policy, The Conversation, The Hill, The Daily Caller, RealClear Politics, The Indianapolis Star, RealClear Markets
Media studies prof at DePauw U. Columnist, author, and analyst of media issues. Tweets are my own.
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MCCALL: CNN’s Covington Settlement Shows Danger Of Agenda-Based Reporting

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By Jeff McCall
| The Daily Caller Verified
January 08, 2020 12:45 PM ET News organizations intent on framing news events to meet their ideological predispositions should carefully consider the legal fallout from last year’s coverage of the Covington Catholic high school students. It is risky to force news reporting into partisan sociopolitical templates.
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MCCALL: The Washington Post Is Discovering Covington Catholic Was ‘News’ It Didn’t Need To Cover

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By Jeff McCall
| The Daily Caller Verified
November 06, 2019 11:30 AM ET Lawyers for The Washington Post are back on task after a federal judge in Kentucky reopened part of a defamation lawsuit against the paper. The suit stemmed from how The Post covered an event in the nation’s capital last winter that included a focus on Covington Catholic high school student Nicholas Sandmann. Sandmann has sued The Post for $250 million, and also filed suits against CNN and NBC.
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New York Times adds to media chaos in the Trump era

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By Jeff McCall
| The Hill Verified
The journalism profession has been challenged in many ways during the Trump administration, with the media industry itself often becoming part of the news. That trend continued this week when the New York Times decided to run an anonymous Trump bashing op-ed from a so-called “senior administration official.” That choice runs against a journalistic standard that has served the profession well for decades.
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